Success Stories | Fuel Up to Play 60

Cascade Christian School (Frederickson, WA)

100 Mile Club and Fuel Up to Play 60 Team Up for Success

How can you amplify the success of your school wellness program? Partner it with another winner! Cascade Christian School in Frederickson, WA, is a shining example of how the parallel goals of 100 Mile Club, a school-based walk/run program, and Fuel Up to Play 60, an in-school physical activity and nutrition program, were met – by collaboration of the programs’ leaders.

Carrie Busey Elementary School (Savoy, IL)

Garden to Grub at Carrie Busey Elementary

Our project is called Garden to Grub and we are in the first stages. We have tilled a huge area for a school garden that we will plant in just a few months. This winter we have had students planning the garden: all the tools we will need, and most importantly what do we want to plant.

Elkhorn Middle School (Frankfort, KY)

Program Advisor Making a Difference at EMS in Franklin County!

The Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor and Health and PE teacher at Kentucky's Elkhorn Middle School was recognized in an article in "Kentucky Teacher," which highlighted her PECAT and HECAT training. Read the article here: ...

Rollins Elementary School (Aurora, IL)

Fun for Winning Program Advisor at Rollins

After completing the necessary requirements, I -- Program Advisor for Rollins Elementary -- won tickets to a Chicago Bears game. I had the pleasure of talking to Connie and Jared Payton about our progam!

Sherman High School (Seth, WV)

Program Advisor Nick Cabell, Supported by His Principal, Increases Breakfast Participation

The 2012-13 school year is Program Advisor Nick Cabell’s first year with Fuel Up to Play 60. But don’t let that fool you! He’s already had great success. N ...

Rosa Parks-Edison Elementary (Indianapolis, IN)

Rosa Parks-Edison Elementary's Active Program Advisor

As the Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor for my school, my goal is to provide as many opportunities as possible for my students, both in terms of healthy eating as well as daily physical activity. We kick-started the year with our Recess Running Rockets Club. Over 100 students signed up, run/walk during recess, and earn special toe charms. I also added more resources for the classroom teachers to get their students up and moving throughout the day.

Widen Elementary (Austin, TX)

Widen Elementary School Takes a Taste Test/Survey

Our student team handed out samples of yogurt prepared by our cafeteria staff to give everyone an opportunity to take the taste test during all lunches at school. The students created a questionnaire about the parfaits and tallied the answers so they could create a graph based on the results.u

Ridge Family Center for Learning (Elk Grove Village, IL)

Grand Prize Winner of the Casting Call Challenge Is Ridge Family Center for Learning!

The Grand Prize Winner of the Casting Call Challenge was announced on October 29! Ridge Family Center for Learning joined 25 runner-up winning schools that have made healthy change a part of their school! For their efforts, Ridge will be featured on TV during an NFL game in late November!

Dearborn Academy (MA)

Leading by Example at Dearborn Academy

I began working with the Dearborn Academy in February 2012 by assisting the foodservice director with the HUSSC application. We noticed that in order to properly motivate the students, the educators and staff must get involved by being proper role ...

Carrie Busey Elementary School (Savoy, IL)

Physical Activity Literacy Day at Carrie Busey

We wanted to combine a full day of literacy activities that would have physical activity tied to them. We wanted to have a full school activity day with students K-5 rotating to six different literacy activity stations that were grade level appropr ...

Batavia Elementary School (Batavia, OH)

Batavia Piglet Walking Contest

Started a walking contest where for every mile you walk, you get a ticket. The class with the most tickets gets to throw water balloons at myself and the other gym teacher ...

Central Grade School (Traverse City, MI)

Central Grade School's Walk-A-Thon

The team of students decided they wanted to do an all school physican activity play. We held a "Walk-A-Thon" (similar to the Relay for Life concept). Classrooms signed up for 30 minutes walking time periods and walked around the school (1 city block; 3 laps = 1 mile). The Fuel Up to Play 60 team had activity stations/challenges for students to complete. After the walk the Food and Nutrition Departement provided water and fresh fruit. The whole school was excited to participate

Crispus Attucks Elementary School (Kansas City, MO)

Crispus Attucks' Fuel Up to Play 60 Team Promotes Dairy

We decided to promote the Farm to You Healthy Eating Play and wanted to promote healhty food choices in the cafeteria. We decided to focus on the benefits of consuming dai ...

Belmont High School (Dayton, OH)

Lucky Milk Sticker Contest

The Fuel Up to Play 60 team helped the SFS department with a Lucky Milk Sticker contest. The contest helped the interest in breakfast partication for the week. The Fuel Up to Play 60 team members helped hand out the milks and the prizes. The SFS de ...

Az Compass Prep (AZ)

Olympics Field Day/Kickoff to Fuel Up to Play 60

We had a field day where every student could participate in activities and play games. We took the Fuel Up to Play 60 Pledge and all the students participated in the Pledge. Students are asking for more opportunities to play organized games. They d ...

Vera Ralya Elementary School (Haslett, MI)

Ralya Elementary's Kickoff

The goal was to kick off Fuel Up to Play 60 at Ralya Elementary during an all-school assembly. The 4th and 5th graders on the Haslett Youth Football team dressed in their game unif ...

Vera Ralya Elementary School (Haslett, MI)

Ralya Elementary Physical Activity Play

The goal of our Physical Activity Play was increase the amount of physical activity during school hours. All classrooms are participating in "Brain Breaks." This ...

Talman Elementary School (Chicago, IL)

Talman Tigers Take Breakfast on the Go

We realized that most of our students were not eating a well-balanced breakfast at home and although breakfast was offered at school, many students were not taking advantage of the opportunity to grab breakfast. We revamped the way breakfast was pr ...

Voyageur Academy (Detroit, MI)

Voyageur Academy's Whats New Wednesdays

We choose the "taste test" under the Heathly Eating Plays because we wanted to expose our students to differnt foods that they might not eat regularly. So for th ...

West Village Academy (Dearborn, MI)

West Village Academy's Nutrition Label Reading

In a third grade classroom at West Village Academy a mini lesson was taught about how to read nutrition labels and what to look for while reading one. Students became excited learning how the information on the labels leads to being a healthy perso ...

Crispus Attucks Elementary School (Kansas City, MO)

Attucks Bobcats Benefit from Brain Breaks

The second grade class at crispus Attucks Elementary participated in classroom brain breaks several times a week. Sometimes the activity was in the classroom and just involved moving of some sort for five to ten mintues. Sometimes it involved going to the gym to do a short activity like creating hula huts and doing jumping jacks when you successfully completed building the hut. The teacher states that she felt it helped the students to refocus when they appeared to be getting restless and needed a break.

Chandler Park Academy Elementary School (Harper Woods, MI)

Chandler Park Academy Walking Club

We started a walking club in November of 2012 with four staff members and eight parents and 14 students. The goal was to have a total of 40 participants. The changes we ha ...

Banneker Elementary School (Kansas City, MO)

Smoothie Day Tasting

Banneker received a grant for $4,000 to do Smoothie Days and help put our fitness center back into working order. We just did our first smoothie tasting with strawberry banana and low fat yogurt smoothies. The students loved it. Many students got t ...

San Marcos Elementary School (Chandler, AZ)

Taste Test Party Time at San Marcos Elementary!

For three months in the Spring 2013, we a planned “Taste Testing Party" at San Marcos Elementary School in Chandler, AZ. Our goal was to expose students to a variety of vibrant fruits/vegetables and cheeses (some of which were new to students) and encourage them to try some new colorful food items, in a “party-like” atmosphere.

Jeff Davis High School (GA)

Breakfast In the Classroom at Jeff Davis

Our nutrition team wanted to see that none of our kids was going hungry and that they were trying to be active in sports and/or extra curricular activities which was resulting in poor performance. So they began bringing Read More»

Kennedy School (Fergus Falls, MN)

Kennedy School Participates at Cleveland Elementary’s Family Fitness Fair

This brief clip features a stellar Program Advisor interviewing two outstanding Student Ambassadors who have championed Fuel Up to Play 60 at their school, the Kennedy School in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. While at the Family Fitness Fair hosted by Cl ...

Picture Rocks Intermediate School (AZ)

Picture Rocks Intermediate Eat The Rainbow of Fruits and Veggies

Our goal was to encourage kids to try more varieties of fruits and veggies. Many students learned that they really liked some fruits and veggies that they had not tried before. They were very excited to try the steamed veggies and zucchini. Many students were talking about the fruits and veggies for several days after the Family Night where we served them. This was also the most people we have ever had at a Family Night. Some students and former students helped in setting up the taste testing for the Family Night. Other students gave suggestions during PE classes for the taste testing ideas.

Blue Angels Elementary School (Pensacola, FL)

Blue Angels Elementary Fuel Up Family Night

We had a Kickoff night filled with events and family fun. Students were encouraged to come out to the school track for a Family Fun Night where we shared healthy activities and food ideas. We also had a DOT Bicycle Safety speaker come out and talk to the students about how to walk/bike safely to school.

C D Fulkes Middle (Round Rock, TX)

CD Fulkes offers a Fuel Up to Play 60 Sponsored Taste Test

On April 16th during all lunch periods the student body at CD Fulkes participated in a taste test sponsored by Fuel Up to Play 60. The food they tried was edamame salad. Many of the kids liked it so much they came back for seconds. Some kids tried ...

Deerpark Middle (TX)

Deerpark's Successes in 2012-13

My primary goal has been to provide as many opportunities as possible for our students to see, hear and experience physical activity and nutrition. Some of the things that we have done on our campus are: Family Night, Ranger 5K Run, Running for Rou ...

Lawrence Elementary School (MI)

Lawrence Elementary

Initially, our goal was to put on a dance, drama, and music production encorporating many differenct aspects of living a healthy lifestyle. The Funds also allowed us to offer ...

Frank Rushton Elementary School (KS)

Frank Rushton Cafeteria Restyle

The PE teacher and Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor have always had the goal of improving the environment in the Mutlipurpose Room (cafeteria/gym) but has never been able to accomplish this goal on her own. We decided to apply for Funds for Fuel Up to Play 60 and implement the Little Paint Can Go a Long Long Way Healthy Eating Play.

Frank Rushton Elementary School (Kansas City, KS)

Frank Rushton Gets Moving!

We started a walking club that met every Tuesday after school for the month of May. Students, staff and families were invited to attend. We used Funds for Fuel Up to Play 60 to purchase pedometers to track individual success as well as classroom competitions.

Frank Rushton Elementary School (Kansas City, KS)

Frank Rushton Promotes Healthy Eating

Our goal was to increase fruit, vegetable and milk intake among the students at Frank Rushton Elementary. We wanted to accomplish this by implementing the principles of the Smarter Lunchroom movement - we soon discovered that we still needed some money to do this even though the ideas were no cost/low cost by design. We decided that applying for Funds for Fuel Up to Play 60 was the way to go.

Universal Learning Academy (Westland, MI)

Milk for Mustaches at Universal Learning Academy

ULA won Funds for Fuel Up to Play 60! With this grant we purchased a new camera and a new color printer for our students to show off their dairy pride. The Play we did is called "Milk for Mustaches." Students show their support for eating healthier and consuming dairy in their daily lives by wearing a "sticker" mustache.

Molino Park Elementary School (FL)

Molino Park Utilizes Funds for Running Program

Molino Park used part of the Funds for Fuel Up to Play 60 to purchase a one-year subscription to the online web based running program "Stride Track." Using scanners ...

Camino Real Elementary (Niederwald, TX)

Healthy Ambassadors Lead the Way!

One of our Healthy Eating Plays that we came up with was to have a system of rewarding students for making healthy choices during lunch and recess. For Fuel Up ...

Frankenmuth High School (Frankenmuth, MI)

Pure MI Smoothies

We decided to make smoothies, using Michigan ingredients. We purchased fresh and frozen fruit, vanilla yogurt and milk. Using blenders purchased with Funds for Fuel Up to Play 60, we were able to keep up with demand at lunch time! To get a smoothie, students had to fill out an end-of-the-year survey about Fuel Up to Play 60 tasting events and Physical Activity Plays.

Jacob G. Smith Elementary School (Savannah, GA)

Jacob G. Smith Kickoff Pep Rally

Our goal was to get 50% of our students registered on line with Fuel Up to Play 60. We informed the students, staff and parents about the fabulous Funds we received and began ...

Morey Charter School (Shepherd, MI)

Thantastic Thursdays with the Freggie Kids of Morey PSA!

At the beginning of the funding cycle, we did a school-wide survey on what it means to eat healthy food. Many students responded in detail about what they thought about healt ...

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