B' F' Kitchen Elementary Health

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B. F. Kitchen Elementary Health Wellness Focus
School

• Kandi Smith, Principal
• Kristin Queré, Wellness Coordinator

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About our school

• Student Enrollment 210 students
• Small neighborhood all walking school
• Two rounds of each grade except for 5th grade,
  which has only one round
• School-wide Title I
• 53 Free and Reduced Meal Program

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Getting Started

• Research
• Building consensus
• Staff, community, family, central office, and
  student support
• School Wellness Team
• Creating a new mission for our school

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Why Wellness?

• Research-Based
• Spark, by Dr. John Ratey
• Prime the brain for learning
• Foster a natural life-long desire to get active
  and be healthy
• Touches each and every child in the building

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Our Mission

• B. F. Kitchen Elementary, along with our
  community, commit to academic excellence as a
  Health Wellness Focus School by promoting high
  academic standards, physical activity, good
  nutrition, and positive choices for each and
  every child.

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First Year Goals

• Proactive Approach to Student Achievement
• Increase physical activity
• Nutrition Education
• Wellness Wednesdays
• Combined PE
• Nutrition Lessons
• Kids are loving it! (So are we!)

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Wellness Team Actions

• Setting our Goals
• Monthly Wellness Meetings
• Creating a Wellness Calendar
• Creating a Wellness Policy
• Gathering Baseline Data

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Physical Activity Changes

• Activity breaks in the classroom
• Recess before lunch
• Increased Physical Education
• Fundraising Tiger Trample
• Swimming Lessons for each 4th grader
• Gym Bags
• TNT Tuesdays

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Nutrition Education

• Pick a Better Snack
• Fresh fruit or veggie for each child, every day!
• Wellness Wednesday
• Nutrition lesson
• Integrating reading and writing activities

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Next Steps for this Year

• Implementing our 2009-10 Goals
• Increased Parent Involvement
• Staff Wellness
• Designing our HW Calendar of events and
  activities
• Evaluate and Data Analysis
• EOY Parent, Student, Staff Evaluation

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Our Community Partners

• Poudre Valley Health Systems
• Healthy Kids Club
• CanDo Loveland
• Healthy Heart Club
• 9Health Fair for Students
• City of Loveland

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• He who has health has hope,
• and he who has hope has everything.
• - Arabian proverb