Wellness Report Card Nutrition & Physical Activity January 2013

1. Wellness Report Card Nutrition & Physical Activity January 2013 Wellness Report Card Nutrition & Physical Activity January 2013 Bowling Green City Schools 1211 Center Street Bowling Green, KY 42101 The Bowling Green City Schools are dedicated to serving nutritious meals and providing multiple physical activity opportunities to support life-long health and wellness.

2. Balancing Calories: • Make 1/2 of your plate fruits and vegetables • Make at least half of your grains whole grain • Switch to fat-free or low-fat (1%) milk • Foods to Reduce: • Reduce Sodium in foods • Drink water instead of sugary drinks Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act The Child Nutrition Program will begin utilizing the USDA MyPlate to help educate children about healthy eating habits by teaching them what goes on their plate at every meal. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act contains many provisions that help improve child nutrition programs and make meals and offerings more nutritious. Bowling Green City Schools Child Nutrition Program is serving school meals that meet these challenging new federal nutrition standards, ensuring that meals are healthy and well balanced, providing students with all of the nutrition that they need to succeed in school. School meals offer students milk, fruits and vegetables, proteins/meats, and bread/grains and meet strict limits for saturated fat and portion size. • BGISD school lunches meet additional standards requiring • Age-appropriate calorie limits • Larger servings of vegetables and fruits • A wider variety of vegetables (including dark green and red/orange vegetables) • Fat-free & 1% milk • More whole grains • Less sodium • Balancing Calories: • Make 1/2 of your plate fruits and vegetables • Make at least half of your grains whole grain • Switch to fat-free or low-fat (1%) milk • Foods to Reduce: • Reduce Sodium in foods • Drink water instead of sugary drinks

3. Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act Meal Pattern

4. Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) offers free fresh fruits and vegetables to students during the school day, outside of lunch and breakfast periods. FFVP targets elementary schools with the highest percentages of children certified for free and reduced price benefits. The goal of the FFVP is to improve children’s overall diets and create healthier eating habits to impact their present and future health. • It will help schools create healthier school environments by providing healthier food choices, expanding the variety of fruits and vegetables children experience, and increasing children’s fruit and vegetable consumption. • 2 Participating Schools • Dishman McGinnis Elementary • Parker Bennett Curry Elementary • For more information: www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/ffvp/

5. Farm to School Farm to School is a program that connects schools (K-12) and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing agriculture, health and nutrition education opportunities, and supporting local and regional farmers. Bowling Green City Schools purchased over $47,000 in locally grown produce. Need More Acres Farm—Watermelon • 2012 locally grown products purchased included the following: • New Red Potatoes * Baking Potatoes * Peaches • Honeydew Melon * Watermelon * Cantaloupe • Cucumbers * Tomatoes * Cherry & Grape Tomatoes • Onions * Blueberries * Zucchini • Summer Squash * Multiple varieties of Lettuce * Peppers • Strawberries * Raspberries * Apples • Participating Farms: • Great Berries Farm * Jackson’s Orchard * Ladybug Lane Farm • Need More Acres Farm * KY Hydro Farm KY Hydro Farm—Lettuce & Tomatoes

6. National School Lunch Program Research has shown that students who eat school meals perform the best academically. Students who eat school breakfast have greater gains in standardized test scores and show improvements in math, reading, and vocabulary scores. Healthy eating correlates with less trips to the school nurse and less absenteeism. Research has shown that students who eat school meals perform the best academically. Students who eat school breakfast have greater gains in standardized test scores and show improvements in math, reading, and vocabulary scores. Healthy eating correlates with less trips to the school nurse and less absenteeism.

7. National School Breakfast Program After School Snack Program Summer Feeding Program

8. PBC Kindergarten Backyard Boot Camp

9. Purple Striders 5K Race

10. BG Junior High Health Fair Staff Biggest Loser Contest Intramural Program

11. BG High JROTC’s Army National Guard Visit BG High Pool Safety & Swim Classes for Elementary Students

12. Potter Gray KY Derby Relay Races Potter Gray’s trip to Trammel Creek

13. Dishman McGinnis Eagle Flight Race & Activities. 123 Adults & 53 Students Participated on Race Day in 2012. This year’s race day is scheduled for March 9th

14. TC Cherry, McNeill & Potter Gray Jump Rope for Heart Gold Medalist Claire Donahue visits with WR McNeill Students TC Cherry Students learn Strategies to deal with stress & their staff relieves stress with Zumba Classes