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Bowling Green City Schools Wellness Report Card Nutrition & Physical Activity January 2014 Bowling Green City Schools 1211 Center Street Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101

Wellness Report Card The Bowling Green City Schools are dedicated to serving nutritious meals and providing multiple physical activity opportunities to support life ‐ long health and wellness • Healthy Hunger ‐ Free Kids Act • USDA Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program • Farm to School Program • USDA Program Facts • Physical Activity Summary

Healthy Hunger ‐ Free Kids Act The Healthy, Hunger ‐ Free Kids Act contains many provisions that help improve child nutrition programs and make meals and offerings more nutritious. Bowling Green City Schools Child Nutrition Program is serving school meals that meet these challenging new federal nutrition standards, ensuring that meals are healthy and well balanced, providing students with all of the nutrition that they need to succeed in school. School meals offer students milk, fruits and vegetables, proteins/meats, and bread/grains and meet strict limits for saturated fat and portion size. BGISD school lunches meet additional standards requiring Balancing Calories:  Age ‐ appropriate calorie limits  Make 1/2 of your plate fruits and vegetables  Larger servings of vegetables and fruits  Make at least half of your grains whole grain  A wider variety of vegetables (including dark green and  Switch to fat ‐ free or low ‐ fat (1%) milk red/orange vegetables) Foods to Reduce:  Fat ‐ free & 1% milk  Reduce Sodium in foods  More whole grains  Drink water instead of sugary drinks  Less sodium

Menu Compliance for 6 ‐ Cent Certification Menu Name Cycle Week Grade Range Lunch Cycle Week #2 K ‐ 5 Weekly Component Statistics Fruit Vegetable Meat/Mea Grains Milk Avg Avg % Sat Sodium t Alternate Calories Fat Avg • Regulation 2 ½ Cups 3 ¾ cups 8 oz 8 oz 5 Cups 550 – 650 < 10% Minimum Servings Servings kcal Menu 7.5 Cups 6.75 Cups 9.5 oz 12 oz 5 Cups 647 kcal 7.89% Actuals servings Servings Regulation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Met? Weekly Subgroups of Vegetables Served Dark Green Red/Orange Beans/Peas Starchy Other Vegetable Weekly ½ Cup ¾ Cup ½ Cup ½ Cup ½ Cup Regulations Menu Actuals 1.5 Cups 1.375 Cups ½ Cup 1 Cup 1.75 Cups Regulation Met? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) offers free fresh fruits and vegetables to students during the school day, outside of lunch and breakfast periods. FFVP targets elementary schools with the highest percentages of children certified for free and reduced price benefits. The goal of the FFVP is to improve children’s overall diets and create healthier eating habits to impact their present and future health. It will help schools create healthier school environments by providing healthier food choices, expanding the variety of fruits and vegetables children experience, and increasing children’s fruit and vegetable consumption. 2 Participating Schools  Dishman McGinnis Elementary  Parker Bennett Curry Elementary For more information: www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/ffvp/

Farm to School Farm to School is a program that connects schools (K ‐ 12) and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing agriculture, health and nutrition education opportunities, and supporting local and regional farmers. Bowling Green City Schools Local Produce Purchases: 2010 ‐ 2011 School Year = $32,117 2011 ‐ 2012 School Year = $43,081 2012 ‐ 2013 School Year ‐ $42,653 2013 ‐ 2014 Aug – Nov = $51,134 2013 Locally grown products purchased included the following: New Red Potatoes * Baking Potatoes * Peaches • Honeydew Melon * Watermelon * Cantaloupe • Cucumbers * Tomatoes * Cherry & Grape Tomatoes • Onions * Blueberries * Zucchini • Summer Squash * Raspberries * Peppers • Multiple Varieties of Lettuce * Apples * Strawberries • Asparagus • Participating Farms: • Jackson’s Orchard * Great Berries Farm * KY Hydro Farm • Need More Acres Farm * KY Blueberry Assn * Blueberry Hills Farm • Van Meter Family Farm * Big EZ Farm * ATP Greenhouse • Narrow River Farm

National School Lunch Program National School Breakfast Program Federal Reimbursement $1,041.962 Federal Reimbursement $ 395,850 # Schools Participating 8 # Schools Participating 8 Total Lunches Served 548,062 Total Breakfasts Served 238,882 Average Daily Participation 3114 Average Daily Participation 1,357 Cost of Food Used $1,263,147 After School Snack Program Summer Feeding Program Federal Reimbursement $ 7,472 Federal Reimbursement $ 101,458 Total Snacks Served 9,579 Number of Sites Served 9 Average Daily Participation 54 Average Daily Lunch Participation 614 These figures only include after School snacks that Number of Operating Days 41 were claimed for federal reimbursement

National School Lunch Program National School Breakfast Program Research has shown that students who eat school The School Breakfast Program (SBP) was established in meals perform the best academically. Students who 1966. School districts receive federal reimbursement for eat school breakfast have greater gains in each school breakfast served that meets the U.S. standardized test scores and show improvements in Department of Agriculture’s nutrition guidelines. math, reading, and vocabulary scores. Healthy eating Studies show that children who eat breakfast daily have correlates with less trips to the school nurse and less significantly higher standardized achievement test scores absenteeism. than students who do not eat breakfast. Children with access to school breakfast also had significantly reduced absence and tardiness rates. After School Snack Program Summer Feeding Program Learning does not end when school lets out, nor does the The After ‐ School Snack Program allows after ‐ school need for good nutrition. Through the Summer Food care programs with regularly scheduled activities in Service Program we provide free, nutritious meals to an organized, structured environment to provide and children during summer break when they do not have claim reimbursement for snacks served to school ‐ age access to school lunch or breakfast. children . Food and beverage items that are sold as extras on the cafeteria lines or through vending machines or school stores all meet the minimum nutritional standards required by the Kentucky Board of Education. These standards are designed to limit access to items with little or no nutrient density. No sales from machines or school stores take place until 30 minutes after the lunch period ends. Informative links regarding the School Nutrition Program can be found at our district’s website: www.bgreen.kyschools.us

Physical Activity & Achievement Schools play a crucial role in influencing physical activity behaviors. Sound curriculum, policies, and facilities create an environment encouraging students and staff to engage in a variety of physical activity opportunities. Evidence supports a correlation between college entrance exam scores and the physical well ‐ being of students.