Food Allergy and Special Dietary Needs

Our District will have a School Nutrition Program which shall provide individualized menus or food preparations for students who are unable to have the meals normally served at our school as required by their individual education plan (IEP) or health plan. Read the following information carefully so that we are on the same page.

PARENTAL ASSISTANCE

You will be asked to:

•Inform the school principal of any food allergy or special dietary needs related to a disabling condition or medical necessity.

• Provide medical information from a District-approved recognized medical authority(RMA).

• Offer updated medical information as requested by the District.

• Participate in any meeting or discussion regarding the students’ meal plan.

• Notify the school of any change related to the food allergy or special dietary needs.

SCHOOL SITE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Find out children requiring special dietary change.

•The principal shall refer students with special dietary needs (o special services as required by law.

• The nurses shall make teachers and students aware of allergy alert identification. Prevention needed related to field trips and classroom parties, strategies and other issues necessary to promote student safety.

• Monitor and update the IEP or health plan as needed.

DISTRICT NUTRITION SERVICE RESPONSIBILITIES

•We will provide food item services and individualized menus for students according to medical need. Menus will not be changed because of personal preference.

• We will train school medical staff on how to react to food allergies and food-related emergencies and how to change menus.

• We will maintain special dietary information on each student identified as having special dietary needs and update this information as needed.

At the beginning of the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci returned to Florence after almost two decades in the employ of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. Nearing 50, Leonardo was already famed for his scientific gift and artistic achievements. Combining practicality and observation, Leonardo applied the principle of sapere vedere (knowing how to see, in Latin) into as many areas of human enquiry as it led him.

Cesare Borgia, the ambitious son of Pope Alexander VI, became Leonardo’s financial supporter in 1502. One of the first tasks given to Leonardo was to create a map of the city of Imola, near Bologna. Borgia had taken control of the city in 1499. It was a key success for the young commander. Controlling the city would require understanding its geography and landmarks, and Borgia wanted the map from the finest mind of Leonardo in order to do that.

In the 16th century city maps tended to be symbolic and often symbolic, enlarging the size of religious buildings. Leonardo’s “Imola Plan” broke with this tradition, aiming to show the reality on the ground, and to provide a map that was of more practical use.

Leonardo applied a mapping technique developed by Florentine humanist Leon Battista Alberti, who suggested that a town should be mapped using polar coordinates (极坐标系). Starting with Alberti’s technique, Leonardo adapted it to record more accurate distances, proportions, and relationships between features.

The city’s public square was fixed in the middle of the grid (坐标方格). Historians believe that Leonardo collected data on the ground by starting at this central point and then using a compass (罗盘) and odometer (计程器) to measure streets and landmarks. Using geometry, he could then fill in the rest of the map.

Leonardo’s techniques gave rise to the first map that used data to accurately show a “flattened city” as it might be seen from above, what is called an ichnographic (平面图的) map today, perhaps the most familiar type of map used today. Leonardo’s measurements still hold up: According to historians, the “Imola Plan” can still be used to navigate the city five centuries later.

A new plan for getting children to and from school is being started by a local government in Eastern England.This could end many parents’worries fearful for their children’s safety on the roads.

Until now the local government have only been prepared to provide bus services for children living more than three miles from their school,or sometimes less if special reasons existed.Now it has been decided that if a group of parents ask for help in organizing transport they will be prepared to go ahead,as long as the arrangement will not lose money and children taking part will attend their nearest school.

The new plan is to be fired out this term for children living at Milton who attend Impington School.The children live just within the three-mile limit and the local government said in the past that they would not undertake to provide free transport to the school.But now they have agreed to offer a sum of money for a bus service from Milton to Impington and back,a plan which has the support of the school’s headmaster.Between 50 and 60 parents have said they would like their children to take part.Final calculations have still to be carried out,but a government official has said the cost to parents should be less than￡20 a term.They have been able to arrange the service at a low cost because there is already an agreement with the bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to Impington.The same bus would now just make one more journey to pick up the Milton children.The official said they would get in touch with other groups of parents who in had asked if transport could be provided for their children,to see if they would like to take part in the new plan.