Policy 530-R Wellness Regulations

A. The School District encourages the involvement of students, parents, teachers, food service staff, and other interested persons in implementing, monitoring, and reviewing School District nutrition and physical activity policies.

B. Children need access to healthy foods and opportunities to be physically active in order to grow, learn, and thrive.

C. All students in Early Childhood- Transition will have opportunities, support, and encouragement to be physically active on a regular basis.

D. Qualified food service personnel will provide students with access to a variety of affordable, nutritious, and appealing foods that meet the health and nutrition needs of students; recognize the cultural diversity when meal planning; and will provide clean, safe, and pleasant settings and adequate time for students to eat.

E. School food service staff, at the school and district level, will ensure compliance within the school’s food service areas.

A. Food service personnel will take every measure to ensure that student access to foods and beverages during meal times meet or exceed all federal, state and local laws and guidelines.

B. Food service personnel shall adhere to all federal, state, and local food safety guidelines.

C. The School District will make every effort to eliminate any social stigma attached to, and prevent the overt identification of students who are eligible for free and reduced-price school meals.

D. Guidelines for reimbursable school meals shall not be less restrictive than regulations and guidance issued by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant federal regulations.

E. The School District will provide students access to hand cleaning before they eat meals or snacks.

F. The School District will make every effort to provide students with sufficient time to eat after sitting down for school meals and will schedule meal periods at appropriate times during the school day.

G. If tutoring, club, or organizational meeting or activities are scheduled during meal-time, students will have sufficient time to complete their meals.

H. All food or beverage products depicted on items/equipment on the school campus during the school day must meet the Smart Snack nutrition standards. Food marketing commonly includes oral, written, or graphic statements made for the purpose of promoting the sale of food or beverage product. Therefore, the marketing standards apply to items such as posters, flyers, and other printed materials advertising products. It also applies to prizes or other premium items given to students to promote a product, cups used for beverage dispensing, and various equipment, such as the exterior of vending machines, menu boards, coolers, trash cans, and other food service equipment.

A. The School District will provide healthy and safe school meal programs that strictly comply with all federal, state, and local statutes and regulations.

B. The School District shall designate an appropriate person to be responsible for the School District’s food service program, whose duties shall include the creation of nutrition guidelines and procedures for the selection of foods and beverages made available on campus to ensure food and beverage choices are consistent with current USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans and nutritional requirements.

C. As part of the School District’s responsibility to operate a food service program, the School District will provide continuing professional development for all food service personnel in schools.

D. The School District’s food service program administrator will provide an annual report to the School Board.

A. The School District will encourage and support healthy eating by students and engage in nutrition promotion that is:

1. Offered as part of a comprehensive program designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to promote and protect their health;

2. Part of health education classes’ classroom instruction includes participatory activities, such as contests, promotions, taste testing and field trips where appropriate.

B. The School District will encourage all students to make age appropriate, healthy selections of foods and beverages, including those sold individually outside the reimbursable school meal programs, such as through a la carte lines, vending machines, fundraising events, concession stands, and student stores.

C. During the student academic school day, schools will discourage the use of foods or beverages as rewards for academic performance or good behavior. Schools will be encouraged to recognize and celebrate students by methods that do not involve food. Schools will not withhold food or
beverages (including food served through school meals) as punishment. If an individual student’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP) outlines the use of food for behavior modification, a teacher may use food as a reward for that student. But, food shall be used as a last alternative as part of an IEP, and teachers should minimize classroom use and provide healthy food when available. Teachers are also encouraged to use physical activity as a reward for academic performance or good behavior, as appropriate.

D. Snacks offered during the school day or in after school programs should make a positive contribution to children’s diets and health. Fresh fruits and vegetables, water, low-fat milk, and other foods/beverages that are following the Smart Snacks Guidelines. The District’s WPS Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Guidelines will be encouraged.

E. Schools are encouraged to hold fundraisers that promote positive healthy habits through the sale of non-food and nutritious food items.

A. Students need opportunities for physical activity and to fully embrace regular physical activity as a personal behavior. Health education will reinforce the knowledge and self-management skills needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle and reduce sedentary activities.

B. Physical Education classes will incorporate national physical education standards.

C. Opportunities for physical activity will be incorporated into other subject lessons, where appropriate, and classroom teachers will provide short physical activity breaks between lessons or classes, as appropriate.

D. Daily recess will be provided for elementary students.

1. Schools will be encouraged to schedule physical activity before lunch in order to increase food consumed, decrease plate waste, and improve cafeteria behavior.

2. Schools will provide staff to lead and supervise recess.

3. Schools will be encouraged to proactively teach and encourage positive recess behavior throughout the school year.

4. Schools will not withhold recess as a punishment.

5. Schools are encouraged to avoid using recess to make up instructional time.

E. Integration of physical activity into the academic curriculum where appropriate

1. Physical activity will be strongly encouraged to be integrated into the main school day in the form of a brief movement and/or physical activity break at appropriate times in the school day.

2. Teachers and school staff are encouraged to support learning through movement by integrating physical activity into lessons in content area subjects.

A. The School District recognizes parents and guardians have a primary and fundamental role in promoting and protecting their children’s health and well-being.

B. The School District will support parents’ efforts to provide a healthy diet and daily physical activity for their children.

C. The School District encourages parents to pack healthy lunches and snacks.

D. The School District will provide information about physical education and other school-based physical activity opportunities.

A. The Health Services Supervisor and the Director of Wayzata Cafés will provide leadership of the wellness policy.

B. School District will maintain a district wellness committee to assess the district health environment and the implementation of the wellness policy. The Wellness Committee shall include a variety of stakeholders and will meet at least annually. Wellness School Assessment Tool 3.0 (WellSAT) will be used as the assessment tool to guide the wellness committee’s review of the policies and practices.

C. The district will evaluate compliance with the Wellness Policy no less than once every three years. The assessment will include the extent to which each school is in compliance with the policy and how the policy compares to a model policy, as established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

D. The permitted stakeholders may include but are not limited to teachers of physical education, school health professionals, students, representatives of the school food authority, parents, county representatives, early childhood supervisors, school social workers, the human resources benefits manager, and school administrators using the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.

• Adopted: May 14, 2007
• Amended: February 9, 2015
• Amended: October 12, 2015
• Amended: May 8, 2017
• Amended: December 12, 2018
• Amended: January 14, 2019
• Amended: July 10, 2023
• Last Reviewed: July 10, 2023

• Policy 530 - Wellness