Autumn

Newsletter

2014

Sodexo Supports the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement

To enhance student well-being, we have partnered with the Cornell University's Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs to encourage students to select, eat and enjoy nutritious foods. Cornell's focus is on consumer behavior research and how environmental cues affect food choices.

The Cornell team is helping schools encourage students to make healthier food selections through its Smarter Lunchrooms Movement. The program is designed to be simple and cost effective.

The Smarter Lunchrooms Movement designs the school lunchroom to encourage students to make specific decisions about food. Our focus will be on promoting student consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Continued on Page 3 Kids At Play

When school opens in the fall, kids immediately to get involved in fall sports and out on the playgrounds. Our Sodexo facilities teams handle all the required maintenance to keep kids safe while they play.

Sports fields should be kept level, with lush short grass and without divots, to prevent ankle turns, sprains, and potentially other more serious injuries. We are also concerned with the compaction or hardness of the field. Not all sports require helmets, and helmets work best when the hardness of the turf is within limits determined by NCAA and the NFL. Sodexo can test the hardness and remediate conditions where the hardness exceeds the safe limits.

Playground equipment, especially swing seats, slides, fasteners, and fall zones require periodic evaluation. Seats and slides can crack over time. Fasteners can rust, spread apart and allow equipment to become loose or come apart completely. The material used on the fall zones — the areas under equipment — can become dispersed or might decompose. All of these are items that Sodexo regularly inspects and corrects.

Commitment to safety is a top priority at Sodexo. Our expertise in this area improves the Quality of Life for our students and the schools we serve.

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As of July 1, 2014 the nutritional guidelines have changed for the National School Lunch Program as part of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act and Smart Snacks.

Offered for each meal, the bread/ grain component needs to be Whole Grain rich, Sodium and calorie amounts have been reduced in the meals, food and snacks offered. The size and calorie counts of the bev-erages offered are less by grade level. This excludes the eight ounce milk component and the water that is sold separately. The Smart Snacks program is required for schools that participate in the National School Lunch program.

This establishes the nutritional standards for all food and beverages available to students during the school day. Please go to the Wayne Schools’ website -www.wayneschools.com to learn more about the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act & Smart Snacks’ program changes. As part of continually enhancing our selections, Thumann’s Deli Meats are offered in the Secondary Schools.

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Sustainability can be EZ. We can make you SMART. Sodexo’s global approach to sustainability is the “Better Tomorrow Plan” and our School Services Division makes it actionable with our “Schools’ EZ Approach to a Better Tomorrow.” This creates a sustainability plan broken into smaller pieces that help you learn and take action on just one new initiative per semester that can impact the school district, student well-being, and the learning environment. Later this fall, we’ll be learning about Energy —�using Sodexo’s Energy Tool Kit and adding value to our partnership by providing you with an Energy Plan.

If your school district is more advanced in sustainability, our proprietary Sustainability Management and Reporting Tool (SMART) is now available without additional cost to all Sodexo school district partners. The tool can be set up for a whole district or to focus on one school only. SMART training and other resources are available to Sodexo managers. If your district is interested, speak with your Sodexo General Manager right away, so that he or she can sign up for a training webinar in September.

However you choose to focus on sustainability, Sodexo’s tools and programs can help move each account in the right direction. For more information on SMART and the Schools’ EZ Approach to a Better Tomorrow, speak to your on-site Sodexo General Manager.

Each Monday brings us a new week and a new opportunity to make a difference in our lives and the world around us. The start of a new school year is the perfect time to begin new projects. We offer MyMondays, Sodexo’s new education program designed to support a coordinated health and wellness education program with a focus on elementary schools. Sodexo will work with you to integrate education to support and establish these healthy behaviors. MyMondays is all about promoting healthy eating, physical activity, cooking and sustainability. Each month’s MyMondays educational program will feature four weekly themes supported with engaging activities. The four themes are: 1. Harvest Monday 2. Move It Monday 3. Kids Cook Monday 4. Kids Care Monday As always, Sodexo encourages participation in featured promotions, holidays and heritage month celebrations and these can be used to develop MyMondays programs. Suggested activities for each Monday’s theme are outlined for managers, but the possibilities are unlimited.

Feeding Our Future: Coke, Sodexo Join Forces to Stop Child Hunger in Atlanta by Steve Dunmore, Sodexo Education Market President - Schools

Sodexo held a special event to celebrate our Feeding Our Future® program’s four millionth meal at the Andrew and Walter Young Family YMCA in Atlanta on July 30. As a father and president for the Schools segment at Sodexo with close ties to the Atlanta area, this event and the Feeding Our Future® program impacts me personally. During the school year, 21 million kids receive free and reduced-price meals; however, only 3.5 million have access to free summer meals. That means nearly 18 million children will miss out on a meal during the summer months. To help close that gap, Sodexo and The Coca-Cola Company partnered to fight childhood hunger and ensure Atlanta area children have access to free and nutritious meals. To date, the program has delivered more than 162,000 free summer meals. We were also proud to announce at the Atlanta event that nationally, the program served its four millionth meal this summer. To learn more about Sodexo’s innovative approach to fighting hunger or how you can get involved, please visit our Feeding The Movement page at www.SodexoUSA.com, Search Word: Feeding the Movement.

What are your kids eating in Wayne Schools

As part of Sodexo’s commitment to the Partnership for a Healthier America announced in March 2014, all Sodexo Schools units are expected to implement at least nine Smarter Lunchrooms tactics, including placing fruits and vegetables at students’ eye level, ensuring that that there are two fruit and two vegetable choices available each day, placing fruit and vegetables in attractive containers, positioning cooked vegetables before the entrees, and food service staff encouraging fruit and vegetable consumption through creative naming, selling techniques nutrition education in the classroom and chef culinary demonstrations.

For more information on the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement and the tactics your school can use, speak with your Sodexo General Manager.

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