Health issues
District wellness program
Granite District’s Board of Education adopted a comprehensive
wellness policy in April, 2006. The Board expressed its understanding of
the relationship between food and good nutrition and the capacity of children to
develop and learn and acknowledged the relationship between developing healthy
nutritional and exercise habits at a young age and wellness throughout an
individual’s life. It also committed to doing its part in confronting the
larger societal problem by directing schools to provide education and
opportunities to help students develop healthy habits.
Granite District’s wellness policy,
found on the district
website, addresses nutrition education and healthy eating habits in schools,
encourages physical activity beyond P.E. on a regular and creative basis,
identifies a variety of school-based activities that schools are urged to
implement, and provides for ongoing monitoring and evaluation. The
detailed policy also anticipates the involvement of local Community Councils in
addressing the needs and desires of their particular communities at the school
level.
In addition to implementing this policy, Granite District has
added two specialists to the Teaching and Learning Department who focus on the
elementary grades and provide both nutrition lessons and lifelong wellness
activities in classrooms across the district.
Asked at Olympus High School network meeting, November 28,
2007
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