001[Music] all school district is located in central Feeny's roughly between the Phoenix Zoo and the sky over Airport and the boss promised neighborhood is all built on the premise that what happens outside the school walls is as important as what happens inside the school walls so the Balts School District has developed several policies to help schools and families to see how a healthy relationship with food and health and wellness can be developed so we had policies such as food cannot be used as a reward or punishment when you use food as a reward then students learn to see food as a way to solve issues in their lives another policy we have is that we don't have fundraisers that use food fundraisers have to be healthy fundraisers we can't use food as a reward again
002it's very it's very important to us to look at the holistic viewpoint of our community of our students our family and the entire community and how they see health and wellness in their community hopefully through the course of the day the kids that go to balls are gonna come out of our system healthier and happier and more prepared for school and for life st. Luke's Health Initiatives is a nonprofit foundation and we are partnering with Valley the Sun United Way on the breakfast in the classroom project because we think it's a great model that can be replicated around the state and what we appreciate is looking at the evaluation mechanisms how is it rolling out for students how are the teachers feeling about it the benefits to breakfast in the classroom for our students are
003it's helps them in the morning get a little bit of nourishment in them so that they can be ready to learn many of them don't take the opportunity to eat at home so this is their first meal of the day I think that I've see I see the benefit of it the kids do come in ready and they're looking for that they want to know what are we having for breakfast today having it in the classroom everyone eat so there's three items and they'll try it they'll try some of the fruits that a lot of kinder they don't know what a pear is so it's funny when the first time eating a pear and you'll hear who I like this and summer.i like it cold noodle is a great activity that I'm able to use
004in my classroom it allows the kids to get up out of their seats and move around there's educational games that we can do during lessons that help review skills and get them running the kids love it [Music] afterwards are usually pretty tired they had a lot of pent-up energy this allows them to take it out so they can sit down and focus fourth graders only have an attention span of a certain amount of time and this allows me to lengthen my lessons the ffvp which is known also as a five foot vegetable program is the USDA program it does provide the students with fresh food or vegetable either after breakfast or after lunch they always remind us what is it what is it so very excited very very excited about this program we also offer
005on a daily basis we have a salad bar when we try to provide every day no unique items or that kids will like on all students amazingly enough they also don't do have themself at the salad bar [Music] social and emotional learning as what we really focus on if there's four core values for Playworks healthy play a healthy community inclusion and respect and so our whole goal I play works is to make sure that every kid comes out ready to play and that they can play safely and not feel bullied or belittled or anything so they've just felt comfortable coming out playing with their peers today we're going to be playing a few different game our main focus today is working on integrity and so as we play these games we're just going to incorporate
006integrity how do we use integrity in this game oh we use integrity by not cheating by not lying by trusting each other when we do a game and stuff like then another project that value of the Sun United Way has been working with Bronson Lee Elementary School is a weekend backpack where it's got recipes and food and they're working and testing the curriculum and again this is to help the whole family engage in healthy eating this is a wonderful model to look at how do we hardwire if you will healthy eating and healthy living for all of your students the program started about three four years ago it's called skate after-school it's a nonprofit organization with amateur skateboarders in the community that wanted to give back so this is the first school structured program that
007they started started with maybe a dozen kids and now it's built up to a cap of 50 kids they have to get good grades and good behavior to come in and then they come here and skate and they have volunteers at our Amateur skateboarders are well that help the kids with tricks and kind of teach them balance and how to stay on and it's growing flourishing program here at the school that turned into like one of the most popular ones so when we take a look at the garden it's it's really twofold we have integrating science with instruction during the normal day and then also we have a parent component in the afternoon room they learn about how fruits and vegetables grow and the health benefits of them but also that that they can be
008grown right in their backyard once a year we have what we call future chef contest we asked students to come up with some unique recipes with selected recipes it's on to sadiq so for consideration for a national one also to be in the Select so a recipe book last year I studied the cooking classes for actually the students on also the families trying to educate them about healthy habit unhealthy cooking so each time we had like 20 to 30 parents on students coming to new to our cooking classes we're so pleased with our relationship with the discovery triangle and the Fresh Express The Fresh Express is a retrofitted city bus that has been turned into a mobile grocery store it has fresh produce available once per week and then we can have our parents as
009they drop their kids off also visit the mobile Fresh Express so we want to make those options available to family so they can provide more a home-cooked fresh meals for their families which we believe contributes to a healthier environment for our kids and for our families both schools have made phenomenal progress towards wellness one of the best efforts at ball schools is their physical education department not only our students getting 60 minutes at least 60 minutes of high quality instruction each week but the PE teachers here really go above and beyond to ensure wellness is embedded in every part of the school day and are the true champions for this work a new Boys and Girls Club at false elementary is allowing us to expand into before and after school programming which is giving kids
010even more of an opportunity to eat healthy and move more not only are the students in the boss community getting a great education but they are getting the chance to grow up healthy this is a huge advantage this work is making a significant difference in their lives you