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Include students, parents, teachers, administrators, school nutrition services, school staff, community
members and representatives from other school groups like PTO/PTA and accountability/school
improvement committees. A team can consist of two or more people. It can be a team formed for a
specific project or another team already in place (like a wellness or coordinated school health team). List
Team Members here. Include their role within the school, phone number and email.
Role
Phone
Email
Y/N
Parent/Teacher, etc.)
Amanda
Jeanette
Katrina
Tracy
Cory
Kerri
Niki
June 1, 2015
It was also shown that our extended school community is practically ignored when it
comes to wellness. As a commuter school, and to promote more wellness education, we
have decided to build active and/or educational kits that can be used for birthdays and
rewards while in class and will reinforce these efforts while also promoting wellness
education while enjoying time with our school community through family nights. Our
limited playground equipment was already an obvious and serious limitation to our
students at recess, as is the limited amount of playground balls, etc. To provide an active
program that will engage them at recess, a competitive running club will be launched
this year.
100% of students will participate in at least one classroom birthday/reward party that
involves one of our kits by at least one student from every homeroom checking one out
by April 30, 2016. Additionally, 65% of teachers will also be exposed to this fun, healthy
alternative to rewards and birthday parties!
2. Family Night:
At least 237 students, parents and staff will enjoy at least one family fun event that is
geared toward wellness awareness while enjoying an evening with our school community
and celebrating our wellness successes by April 30, 2016.
3. Lunch Bunch Running Club:
At least 60% (170) students will join our pilot recess program by April 30, 2016 wherein
they will climb an average of 1 mile each day the club runs (twice a week) using the
mileage club offered at www.fitnessfinders.net
Who is your target audience?
1- Birthday/Reward Kits: The entire student population and at least every homeroom
teacher (283 students, 11 teachers)
2- Family Nights: At least 40 % of our students (113 students), at least one of each of
their parents (113 parents) and all of the homeroom teachers (11 teachers).
3- Lunch Bunch: 60% of the student population by April 30, 2016; 75% by Fall 2016!
How many members of your target audience including students, families or other
community members will be reached or impacted with this project?
1- Birthday/Reward Kits- 100% of the student population.
Project Budget
Program equipment and supplies (list):
Materials for 2 bubble parties, 3 dance parties, two spy parties (with yarn), 2 giant
twister parties, and 2 minute to win it parties.
11 total kitsBubble machines (2)- $74
Bubble Juice (2)- $52
Dance Party Lights (3)- $51
Skeins of Yarn (24)- $10
Large plastic bins for minute to win it kits (2)- $20
Giant Twister dots- (laminated construction paper)- $50 (laminate pouched will be used
for promotion as well)
Materials for wellness awareness activitiesbag of fine sand for measuring sugar content- $5
small clear plastic cups for sugar content measuring (20)- $2
Materials for Spring Carnival$20/classroom for building physical activity for carnival events- $220
Tickets- $7
Kit for lunch bunch(with sufficient supplies included) $150- $200
Incentives, gifts, and awards:
The school will be rewarded (at the end of the year?) with a bag of soccer balls and
footballs for everyones participation!- $150!!
We are contemplating using $50 to buy a few small prizes for top climbers if such rewards do
not come with kit. We are still unsure if we should provide small prizes for the carnival games.
Otherwise, we will use all remaining funds to buy balls and a bag for storage, which also helps
with our schools limited playground equipment.
Promotion:
Supplies to make posters for family nights/awareness activities/hallways- $30
Popcorn $20
Bags for popcorn- $32
Printing and Copying:
Print-outs for various awareness activities- $25 for copies
Meeting/Event Costs:
The admin informs me that there will be no fees for facility use!!
Other (please list):
$1000
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Grant Funds/Donation Funds available or requested and any Funds from other sources:
How was the project promoted to the school community? Include dates.
Two separate emails went out to our school community giving information about the
birthday kits and included the flyer that I made detailing the kit contents (Next year, I
plan to have these flyers printed and laminated to hang in each classroom!) April 22,
2016 and March 18, 2016. After PAARC testing at a staff meeting around April 13,
2016, the Assistant Principal, Brenda Martin, urged the teachers to celebrate the
conclusion of testing with a classroom celebration by checking out one of our birthday
kits.
The two model mountains that were hung up (and will stay up while the club runs each
spring and fall!) on April 4th right outside of the office is our main source of promotion
for the recess club we call "lunch bunch". Each participant has a flag that represents
them with their name on it- our mountains are completely covered!! We hope that
students who haven't; joined will be excited to get themselves a flag on one of those
mountains!
The Spring Carnival was promoted with student drawn signs posted throughout the
school the entire week leading up to our event which took place April 21, 2016. Student
Council helped us to make and hang these signs. Also, We posted a large sign outside
on the fence with balloons during drop off the morning of the 21st, reminding all
families that the event was that night!
What progress has been made towards your SMART goals?
1. Birthday/Reward Kits:
The sign-ups were not consistently used for checking out these kits, but the office staff
has informed me that 100% of students have participated in at least one classroom
birthday/reward party that involved one of our kits. Eleven of our 15 teachers have
homerooms, making us exceed our goal of the percent of teachers that interacted with
our kits.
2. Family Night:
In the craziness of setting up, I never got the sign-up out!! It was a bit hurried as I had
not worked with the PE teacher ahead of time to understand her schedule and ended up
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with less than 15 minutes to set up all of the gym activities! Regardless, The Staff
Advisor, Amanda Seiwert and I estimated that at least 75 families were in attendance
with at least one child and one parent each. I had a great team of ten parents helping
me run the gym activities. Ten teachers were in attendance making the estimated total
attendance 170 people amongst students, parents and staff. We hope to return to our
original idea of having two family fun events; a family fun movie night in addition to the
wellness carnival next year. That should help us to continue to foster our school
community while also doubling our engagement with our families.
3. Lunch Bunch Running Club:
I am pleased to report that we have surpassed our April 30th goal and have actually
achieved our fall goal of 75% of students joining our flat 14ers recess club. They run or
walk an average of four laps a day, each lap around the field being approximately 4,600
ft, making the average distance covered each recess almost a mile.
Step 6 Celebrate
Communicate successes throughout the course of the project to reinforce key messages, recognize
achievement, thank participants and build future support.
How were successes communicated? How did we celebrate our success? Include dates.
On April 21, 2016 we hosted our first annual Wellness Carnival. This event served as a
much needed platform for our community to mingle and interact while providing a way
to do so in a wellness-oriented manner. It also celebrated our birthday kits and lunch
bunch success. We had the mountains showing lunch bunch participation and showcased
the birthday kits by having one of the minute to win it kits out available to play with. I
have also given monthly reports to both the board and the general membership of our
local PTA and regularly correspond with the Wellness Committee to provide updates.
How do we ensure a healthier school culture will continue after this project is over? Did
we complete this action?
At the general meeting on April 14, 2016, our general membership voted to adopt
Wellness Committee as a standing committee. Our by-laws have been updated and the
drafts are being sent to COPTA soon. This will help to ensure that wellness stays a
pertinent and important focus at our school for years to come. Our newest and very
active member, Cory Norman, has come up with various alternatives to using the
Mileage Club going forward so as to keep the need for funding to a minimum. The kits
came with a lot of reproducibles so with a little creativity, we won't require much by
way of funds to keep the lunch bunch alive. I have also built a Wellness Binder that I've
been collecting things in all year while also keeping notes about what worked and what
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would work better next time. This will be helpful for the CSA wellness leaders who
succeed me.