The Board of Education of the Copiague Public Schools is committed to providing school environments that promote and protect children’s health, well-being, and ability to learn by supporting healthy eating and physical activity.  As a measure of this commitment the Board of Education formally adopted the 5415 School Wellness policy to affirm the district’s intent to support the following:

Provide school environments which support healthy eating, physical activity and wellness;

Engage students, staff, parents, teachers, and community members in health promotion and disease prevention by developing, implementing, monitoring, and upholding the district-wide wellness goals to be established in keeping with this policy;

Maximize available resources to the greatest extent possible and practicable that will foster the adoption of lifelong habits of health and wellness among students, staff and the community;

Establish this policy as a framework to guide program and curriculum development as it relates to health and wellness in the district;

​​​​​​​Establish building Wellness Sub-Committee’s to assist in monitoring outcomes and advising on improvements that might be made to further enhance health and wellness in the district;

​​​​​​​Establish an ongoing annual evaluation of the effectiveness of this policy.