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Please post any questions you have on the Healthy School Food Environments Professional Learning series here.

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Post any comments you have on the Healthy Food Environments Professional Learning series here.

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Can I use School Bank Code 9 to offer this PL to teachers? Can we get leave for support staff to complete the PL?

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Can I use School Bank Code 9 to offer this PL to teachers? Can we get leave for support staff to complete the PL?

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Can I create a student work schedule where grades 4-9 students working in partners take turns preparing and delivering healthy breakfast/snacks to classrooms during class time. Can these students be supervised by volunteers or support staff, or would teachers need to be supervising?  

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Can I create a student work schedule where grades 4-9 students working in partners take turns preparing and delivering healthy breakfast/snacks to classrooms during class time. Can these students be supervised by volunteers or support staff, or would teachers need to be supervising?  

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Some varsity sports (eg. High School Hockey) make use of venues outside of the school and owned/operated by others (eg. most arenas are owned/operated by municipalities). If the municipality operates a canteen service (and offers fries for example at an arena), what is the schools responsibility?

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Is there a document that provide healthy replacement choices for the most popular "unhealthy" items that are often on cafeteria menus (ie. hotdogs, pizza, nachos, etc)

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Is there a document that provide healthy replacement choices for the most popular "unhealthy" items that are often on cafeteria menus (ie. hotdogs, pizza, nachos, etc)

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The lack of community based infrastrcuture to support healthy living partnerships in rural schools needs to be considered. It is often challenging to establish partnerships when they do not exist and students are limited in outside opportunities and programs that promote health. To level the playing field, we need to adjust the school's operating budget and allocation of funds, and human resources in school to support these schools that are disadvantaged this way.

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Isn't it important to show students that all foods have a place in our food choices and not just those labelled with the term "healthy"? Food choices are based upon more than just the health value of a food - special occasions, celebrations, traditions, and culture are just a few of the other things which affect food choices.

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As an individual who spent years struggling with anorexia I find it extremely disturbing to see a list of foods that cannot be sold or distributed at school. There are many students who struggle with this condition and I feel, from my own experience, that a list of foods not to be eaten in a social setting negatively affects mental health and well-being.

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I feel it is our role as educators to educate students about all aspects of food and eating. We need to show them that all foods belong in a 'healthy' diet.

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Students in K-5 depend on their families to provide them with the food they bring each day. If that's not 'healthy' I'm not telling children they can't eat it. At least they will have something in their belly. Thankfully we have the SLA to provide a hot meal to students who avail of it each day. In a center city school the issue is not only teaching children about 'healthy' choices, but the parents/guardians need to be educated as well. Frankly with the cost of 'healthy' food choices, families on a budget/social assistance don't have the means to send 'healthy' food.

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There are several fast food outlets within a 5-minute walk for our students, and a large percentage of them choose these sites for lunch - daily.  We struggle with how we are to  offer better meal options - especially when it comes to amount of food and price point, relative to cafeteria offerings.

CW

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I am very interested in Module 4, slide 10.  Engaging Students.  Especially working with students to build a menu and taste testing for new food options.
I see opportunities to make this a curricular / cross curricular activity as well  - Connected to Health and Physical Education Curriculum.
CW

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Finding Connections to curriculum is a great way to expand exposure to the importance of healthy eating and living.  Building healthy living elements into teaching and learning activities is a great way to achieve this.  Ex. The historical growing / producing of food as self -subsistence in SS curriculum.  The science of producing crops in Science.  Health, Phys Ed, Home Economics, Mathematics...all can include healthy living elements.
CW

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I'm concerned that the curriculum in elementary (and the authorized resources) are woefully out of date. When can we expect resources to help implement these initiatives that are current and engaging for the students we serve now?

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Were all food service providers a part of the consultation process? What controls are in place to ensure adherence to policies?

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What is the role of admin, outside of providing the information, in ensuring that school-sponsored events follow the guidelines. Is the expectation that an administrator be present at every school-sponsored event at the school?

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Having had 2 children myself go through school sports, I'm not sure how to approach "fundraising" through the sale of "do not serve/sell" foods at tournaments. If we cannot police what is brought in from home, then families will resort to buying these items outside and bringing them in. Many school sports teams rely on the fundraising from canteens to be be able to participate in tournaments. By restricting what can be sold, you could be restricting the amount of physical activity a team would get. Can't there be a happy medium with healthier choices as an option?

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Healthy School Planner - JCSH Website (internal server error)

Wellness and Positive Relationships (Supporting Resources - Module 3) - blocked

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It seems simplistic to determine that there are certain food that we cannot serve under any circumstances. To my mind it adds to an "all or nothing" way of thinking about food and could lead to binging later in life when "controls" are removed.

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Where can we get a list of healthier alternatives to bake sakes?

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Where can we get a list of healthier alternatives to bake sakes?

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What is a school landed on another determinant for the SD Plan/strategic issue? Are they now required to focus on Wellness and Positive Relationship determinant?

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What is a school landed on another determinant for the SD Plan/strategic issue? Are they now required to focus on Wellness and Positive Relationship determinant?

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Love this notion. This concept is detailed in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; the pyramid of needs that one must have met in order to reach self-actualization. If schools can build those base blocks of individual development, the whole child as a learner can be achieved. This can be easily embedded into a School Development Template that is structured methodically and visually. I am wondering if there is a conscious focus on the hierarchy of needs for school systems that is committed to developing the whole student/child/learner/educator from this premise.

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School gardens are key, but class gardens and growing food all year long inside is also very important. Our school is smack dab in the middle of fast food outlets. They don't go out for lunch but will next year. This will impact their eating choices. We need to provide children more opportunities to grow their own food and prepare meals in school as they may not have the exposure to healthy food options at home. We know this as we have a very comprehensive school breakfast program in our school and the School Lunch program. We also provided food to our families during the many pandemic shutdowns. Educating our students is one thing, but involvement from families is another. School teams cannot do that heavy task on their own. Time, funding and community partnerships is needed to bring families in so they too can be educated on sustainable practices to curb food insecurity at the very least before placing expectations on them to provide healthy food options in such a financially strained time.