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Health & Wellness
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Wellness is good for kids and good for learning. Cherry Creek is committed to a culture of wellness within our schools and the district’s wellness policy outlines the practices encouraged within our district to help create this desired culture.
Cherry Creek Schools Wellness Policy
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Are you a teacher looking for ways to promote wellness in your classroom? Or a parent interested in how best to contribute to wellness efforts in your child's school? Compiled by the Cherry Creek Wellness Team, the Wellness Toolkit addresses each of the components of our Comprehensive Wellnes Strategy and provides a wealth of resources and best practices for promoting wellness in our schools.
Cherry Creek Schools Wellness Toolkit .
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Over the last 5 years, the Cherry Creek Schools Food and Nutrition Department has adopted the guidelines created by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to provide a variety of healthy snacks to our students. The guidelines were implemented in stages and now apply to all snack options available in our schools.
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In addition to being portion controlled for each grade level, all snacks meet these guidelines:
- No more than 35% of calories come from total fat
- No more than 10% of calories come from saturated fat
- Product is no more than 35% sugar by weight
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For more information about our a la carte program, see below.
Snack and A la Carte FAQ's
CCSD Snack Guidelines |
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To help create an environment where a variety of healthy food options are available and that supports the district's wellness goals, all food items sold in schools (including school stores and food service operations supported by DECA) will follow the same guidelines used by Food and Nutrition Services. Please see document below to learn more about how to determine if an item is appropriate for sale in your school store.
Guidelines for Food Sales |
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The Go, Slow, Whoa program is an easy way for children to categorize the foods they eat. By categorizing foods into the Go, Slow, and Whoa students can more easily identify the foods that they should eat most often (‘Go’ foods) and those they should save for treats (‘Whoa’ foods). The program encourages students to choose the healthiest foods, most often and to incorporate a balance of foods in their diet. By creating a common language to discuss the foods that are most beneficial in a diet, students can begin to make eating a balanced diet easy and natural.
The program will begin with a kick-off event and will continue with a combination of signage throughout the school building, serving line labeling of school foods, classroom education, and parent communication. This variety of components is meant to create a comprehensive program that touches students, teachers, administrators and parents.
The program is currently being brought to 11 wellness pilot elementary schools through a partnership between Cherry Creek Schools Food and Nutrition Services, Thrive for Life, Livewell Colorado and Channel 7.
Important Program Messages
Adults and children will eat a variety of Go, Slow, and Whoa foods each day, the key is to increase the consumption of ‘Go’ foods when possible and create meals and snacks that incorporate these foods.
At School
1. Look for Go, Slow and Whoa symbols to help you eat right
2. Put at least 2 Go foods on your tray every day
3. And, don’t forget to play!
At Home
1. Eat Smart. Play Hard ™
2. Go for ‘Go’ foods anytime!
3. Mix ‘Slow’ foods with ‘Go’ foods to make healthiest meals and snacks
Resources for Participating Schools
Graphics and Logos
Email eedwards10@cherrycreekschools.org for logos.
General Program Information
Categorization Criteria for School Foods
Go, Slow, Whoa Shopping List - English
Go, Slow, Whoa Shopping List - Spanish
School Staff Resources
Classroom Ideas
Staff FAQ
Home Resources
Newsletter 1
Newsletter 2
Newsletter 3
For more information about the program, feel free to contact Erika Edwards at eedwards10@cherrycreekschools.org or by phone at 720-886-7169.
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| The CCSD Food and Nutrition Services Department offers a comprehensive nutrition education program for classrooms. Dietitians from the Student Nutrition Center come to your classroom to teach your students the ins and outs of proper nutrition. |
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Sugar: What Do You Know About It?
Age Group: 3rd -12th
This presentation covers sugars in depth – the difference between natural and added sugar, how sugar is used in the body and the pitfalls of too much sugar. To illustrate the large presence of sugar in our diet, students measure the amount of sugar in popular beverages. |
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Fat: Blubber Burgers
Age Group: 4th-12th
Fat is a large part of our diet – sometimes too large. This presentation gives an overview of how fat is used in our body, why it’s necessary and the different types of fat in foods. Students then see how much fat is actually in some of their favorite meals at popular restaurants.
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Portion Distortion
Age Group: 5th-12th
Obesity is a hot topic. This presentation covers obesity trends for the United States and poses the question of the difference between a portion and a serving. Because portions have changed drastically in recent years, students participate in an interactive quiz to illustrate these changes. Students can see how increased portion sizes have led to weight gain in the United States.
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Get Smart about Eating Out
Age Group: 7th-12th
Eating out doesn’t have to wear on the waistline, but it often does. In this presentation students watch the Portion Size Me DVD to see how the trick to eating out is the choices you make and the serving size you eat. We then calculate calories, fat, saturated fat, sodium, and fiber in typical meals that students might choose and compare them to healthier choices.
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Reading a Food Label
Age Group: 5th-12th
In this presentation participants learn how to read a food label from top to bottom. Beginning with a power point presentation students learn all about the food label. The presentation concludes with an activity where grocery store food aisles are set up to allow the students hands on participation with reading food labels.
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Healthy Breakfast and Snacks for Kids
Age Group: K-4th
The pyramid is explored in depth in this presentation. We do an interactive activity where we put different foods on a blank pyramid based on what food group it goes in and if it’s an everyday food versus a sometimes food. Students then learn how to create a ‘1,2,3 Healthy Breakfast’ and that healthy snacks are as easy as ‘1,2 Treat’. |
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Little D, the Five-Food Group Dragon
Age Group: K-2nd
This is a story about a Royal Food Family that comes across a little dragon that is very ill because he doesn’t eat well, or exercise. In this story the students learn the importance of eating right and getting plenty of exercise.
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Growing Good Health (K-2nd)
Age Group: K-2nd
In this presentation we read a book called “Growing Vegetable Soup”. We discuss the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. We also do an interactive activity where we put beans in paper towel and zip lock bags so the students can watch them sprout.
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Contact Information
To schedule a presentation for your classroom, contact Erika Edwards at the Student Nutrition Center.
Erika Edwards
Wellness Supervisor
Food and Nutrition Services
720-886-7169
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Be a Star with School Breakfast
March 4-8, 2013
What is one thing that parents can do to ensure that their student is ready to learn, better able to maintain a healthy weight and have fewer discipline problems in school? Simply make sure their student eats a healthy breakfast each day. If there’s no time at home, your student can eat breakfast at school each day! There’s no excuse for no breakfast.
Each March, we celebrate breakfast with National School Breakfast Week because it so important to student learning and well-being. This year’s theme is ‘Be a Star with School Breakfast’. Eating a wholesome breakfast each morning will help students shine.
Join us in each of our school cafeterias during this special week to learn a little more about school breakfast. We serve breakfast each school day in each of our cafeterias because a healthy breakfast is so important for all students.
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Each year, we celebrate National School Lunch Week in October. Stay tuned to see what events will occur in your students cafeteria during this special week.
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It’s no secret fruits and vegetables are power packed with vitamins and minerals essential to all of us – especially children! They are key to any healthy diet and we are dedicated to doing all we can to foster healthy eating habits in our students that include eating a variety of colorful fruits and veggies. Many children don’t have the opportunity to try different type of fruits and veggies at home so, the Fruit and Vegetable of the Month aims to do just that.
Introducing students and allowing them to taste fruits and veggies that they have never tasted is important to them developing a taste for new foods.
Fruit and Vegetable of the Month
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The Recycling Awareness Committee is a partnership between the Maintenance and Food and Nutrition Services Departments to explore recycling options within the district and provide best practices for implementing these opportunities. The committee meets three times per year to discuss these options. The documents below are meant to help schools and buildings start or continue recycling efforts.
Recycling Best Practices
Carton Council School Guide
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