Dear Parents/Guardians,
As part of the beginning of the school year, your child was provided a Handbook and a paper school calendar to bring home. The Handbook contains all of the school rules and expectations. The calendar is intended to be kept at home as a resource and includes many of the pertinent rules for parents.
I want to take a moment to inform all families of some of the lunchroom expectations found in our Handbook from Aramark and Naperville 203. Continuing from previous years students/parents are not allowed to bring food for other students. A parent may only bring food for their child due to safety for all (food allergies, etc.). Therefore, birthday treats, lunch for a group of students, etc. is not allowed. Secondly, money is not loaned out to students for lunches. We ask that you please make sure to check with your student that they always have money for lunches or that they bring their lunch to school. Thank you for understanding the lunchroom expectations.
Another important note, last school year we ran a breakfast pilot program at our school from February until the end of the school year. Doing this gave us an opportunity to provide students access to breakfast, if needed, and learn how this may work for students. We surveyed students, parents/guardians, and staff members. Survey results were analyzed and reported to the Board of Education this summer. We learned a lot from the responses from our community and the decision was made to continue the breakfast program at our school this coming year. This will provide us with additional information that will inform a bid for a new food services contract which will begin in July 2020. For those students who wish to participate, following is some helpful information for your review.
Cost
Price for breakfast is $1.40 full price (elem) $1.50 (jh). Students who qualify for free/reduced lunch will also qualify for the same for breakfast.
How to purchase breakfast
The breakfast program is quickly accessed by students who choose to eat breakfast at school and they can do it with little interruption to the beginning of their learning day. The process is as follows:
1. Each day, students enter the building as they always have.
2. Students interested in breakfast would go to the Athletics hallway where a breakfast cart will be available. Jefferson staff will direct students as needed.
3. Students select their breakfast items: breakfast entrée, fruit, milk, and/or juice.
4. Students take their breakfast items back to their classrooms for consumption.
5. Breakfast consumption and procedures will vary for classrooms with unique allergen safe plans.
Your student does not have to eat breakfast; it is your/their choice. A breakfast menu is printed each month and accompanies the regular monthly school lunch menu. Nutritional information can be found for breakfast, on our website as well. The menu items consist of healthy students’ favorites made with whole grains and low fat proteins and every breakfast is served with cold 100% fruit juice and/or 1% milk.
Considering the well known and documented benefits of students eating breakfast everyday, we look forward to providing your student with this additional opportunity to be successful and to reach their potential. Please keep this option in mind when sending your student off to school. Please also discuss with your student whether or not you would like them to pick up a breakfast on any given day. We are excited about this pilot program and the benefits it will provide our students.
What a great start it has been to our school year! We hope these supports will help your student have a successful start to the year.
Sincerely,
Jefferson Junior High Administration
Mrs. Ptak – Principal
Malee Farmer – Assistant Principal
Eric Decker - Assistant Principal
