Nine Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed on March 28 in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen! Sunnyvale…
Healthy Living
The Sunnyvale School District (SSD) Child Nutrition Department is making significant strides in enhancing its meal programs, driven by valuable input from students and families. This year has seen a remarkable increase in scratch-cooked meals, with 68,812 breakfasts, 188,065 lunches,…
On Saturday, May 10, the 3rd annual Sunnyvale Youth Disc Golf Tournament took place at the Villa Maria Disc Golf Course in Cupertino. It was organized by Fairwood Explorer Elementary 5th-grade teacher Joe Gabent, who also leads the Fairwood Disc…
The Sunnyvale School District Health and Wellness Committee consists of nearly 20 district teachers, nurses, and two board members who meet quarterly to coordinate, maintain, and celebrate the amazing partnerships and collaborative efforts that go into keeping our community healthy…
Five Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed on May 17 in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen! Sunnyvale…
Two disc golf clubs in the Sunnyvale School District are better than one! In the 2022-23 school year, Fairwood Elementary School fifth grade teacher Joe Gabent started the District’s first disc golf club at Fairwood. This year, the Lakewood Disc…
Columbia Middle School students are learning productive ways to deal with conflict and resolve it peacefully through a class called The Peaceful Bulldogs. Since last year, The Peaceful Bulldogs have been meeting during FLEX time to learn about restorative justice…
When Sunnyvale Middle School P.E. teacher, Sherry Lee, was her students’ age, she didn’t like running. But that all changed when she was in grad school and was inspired by a certain producer/rapper that ran the New York City Marathon….
Something good’s always cooking at the Sunnyvale School District, and never as literally as this past March when SSD students joined international food company Sodexo’s National Future Chef’s Challenge. Our District’s children joined with hundreds of other students from across…
Joe Gabent, a fifth-grade teacher at Fairwood Elementary, didn’t set out to form a disc golf club at school. It just sort of happened. Earlier in the school year he started bringing discs for kids to throw at recess. The…
A new school garden at Bishop is providing students with the opportunity to go on “garden trips” once a month thanks to parent volunteers. Bishop’s three second-grade classes have been the first groups to go into the garden and help…
We encourage parents and guardians to fill out the district’s free/reduced lunch application. Completing the form not only helps provide our schools with much-needed student meals; it also helps determine the amount of funding our district receives for after school…
Six Sunnyvale School District elementary students competed on April 29 in Sodexo’s Future Chefs Challenge. The national initiative aims to get students thinking about making healthy food choices while encouraging them to get active and creative in the kitchen! Sunnyvale…
We are excited to share that our COVID Vaccine Clinic was a huge success. We had a consistent line of students and families down the street (and at times around the corner) during the entire event. The students were brave and…
Winter is almost here which means that flu season is also here. The flu can cause serious illness. Several hundred thousand Americans are hospitalized every year with the flu. Many of the things we are already doing to avoid getting…