Fall Newsletter 2011
Feature Story:
PS87 Gets Serious about Physical Fitness
Located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, PS87 is a K-5 grammar school with approximately 979 students. PS87 is well known in the city, especially amongst parents, for its unique programming and progressive attitudes. The involved teachers, parents, and staff at the school continuously develop new approaches to engaging students around academics, healthy eating, and fitness.
In 2009, PS87 invested in a new program, Coach for Kids, then in its pilot phase, to help keep its students active on the recess yard. Before Wellness in the Schools and Coach for Kids came to PS87, the school had employed private sports programs to work with students on the playground, but found the cost increasingly prohibitive. The school’s administration saw Coach for Kids as an exciting new venture, one that was both affordable and strongly supported by parents.
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WITS in the Press:
This fall WITS has been grateful for the support of two champions of the good food movement: Chef Jamie Oliver and Chef Ann Cooper. At the beginning of the month we were reached out to by Jamie's Food Revolution team to write a feature story about what was in store for WITS, named Food Revolution heroes this summer, in the 2011-2012 school year. You can read our article in the Food Revolution blog here.
WITS also had the honor of being named a Lunchbox Hero this October by Chef Ann Cooper's organization, The Lunchbox.org. The Lunch Box team believes that anyone feeding children healthy food is a hero. They share the stories of the unsung heroes of school food who are working hard across the country to change how we feed our children. Read WITS' story here
ING NYC Marathon
Team WITS Breaks Records!
This year the WITS Marathon team was comprised of five amazing runners: Peggy Davenport, Jerome Devillers, Jeanne McMullin, Marigrace Morris, and Julie Richardson. While each of them was training hard for the big race, they were also fundraising hard to support WITS in our fight against childhood obesity. Collectively the team has raised nearly $70,000 [Update as of 11/15 our team has raised over $75K!!], smashing our previous Marathon fundraising record and exceeding all our highest expectations.Thank you so much team and thank you to those who donated, you really made it happen!
The 2011 Eater Awards
Eat for Kids
Food & Wine: Chefs Make Change
Cook for Kids:
WITS welcomed fall with our tasty Tomato Lab and celebrated National Food Day and WITS Cafe Day by bringing chefs to schools in support of the Chefs Move to Schools Initiative...
Our Chef Partners:
Our Fall Featured Chef is Joy Pierson, of Candle Cafe & Candle 79
In order to better celebrate our generous Chef Partners, WITS has started a Chef Feature under the Community section of our website. Every season we will feature one of our Chef Partners, provide his/her bio so you can get to know them better, share any exciting news they have, and feature one of his/her delicious recipes.
Check out bios from the new team, Ting, Reana, and Rebecca, and continuing staff on our webpage
Our Sponsors
Thanks to our 2011-2012 supporters for their generous contributions
Cook for Kids:
Chop't Creative Salad Company
The French Culinary Institute
Charles O'Malley Charitable Trust
OXO
The Palette Fund
Samara Fund
The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund
Whole Foods Market
Coach for Kids:
Hahn Kang
Hilliard Farber & Co. Inc.
ICAP Services North America
Plum Beach Foundation
QVT Financial LP
General Program Supporters:
Corcoran Cares
The Davenport Family
Eater National
The Fortress Charity Fund
Mary Beth Hogan
Institute for Integrative Nutrition
Jamestown Chelsea Market, LP
Pamela Jones and Craig Russell
James B. Lee
The Nelson Family Foundation
The Strauss Foundation
Jamie Sutherland
Russell and Megan Wiese
The Windmill Lane Foundation
