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Re-opening Lunch Plan for 2020-2021

Meals will be based on Free/Reduced/Paid status. Please fill out Free and Reduced Lunch applications even if you do not think you qualify. DO NOT add in stimulus money or $600 additional unemployment compensation for COVID-19. Enter in current income only. A copy of the current application is attached here, as well as sent to your home. You only need to fill out one. 

 

If you have any questions about completing the Free and Reduced lunch application, please contact Mrs. Klapperick at 507.754.5318 ext 7708 

 

Breakfast: all students who want breakfast will need to be dropped off or walk to door 10.  If you are dropping off your child for breakfast, follow the Parent Pick up traffic pattern, but instead of picking up your child at door 6, drop your child off by the sidewalk closest to door 10 and then exit the school grounds to the West.  Do not exit the school property using the gravel fire lane by the playground.  Buses will be using that lane to drop off bus riders wanting to get breakfast.  Students will need to enter through door 10 and form a line maintaining 6 feet of social distancing. Breakfast will be grab and go. Grades PK-6 will eat their breakfast in their homerooms or 1st hour class.  Grades 7-12 can eat their meal in the cafeteria if there is space based on Social Distancing requirements or go to their 1st hour class and eat in the classroom. 

 

Lunch: Grades PK-6 will have pre-packaged meals. Staff will deliver their meals at their designated lunch time to their classrooms. Grades 7-12 will come to the cafeteria maintaining 6 feet of social distancing. 7-12 students will be using reusable trays and grades PK-6 will be using disposable trays for the time being. All students will have pre-wrapped silverware. All condiments will be pre-cupped or in individual packets. Grades 7-12 students MUST have their ID card to scan at the computer. 

 

Students eating in the lunchroom or other designated areas will sit in seats that will maintain Social Distancing based on the hybrid Model of Instruction for grades 7-12 

 

There will be no communal microwave in the cafeteria for the beginning of the school year. Please plan on bringing home lunches to school accordingly. If state restrictions lessen, we will bring the microwave back. 

 

There will be NO ala carte for the beginning of the school year and once we have ala carte, there will be a limited selection. Students will need to have money in their account to purchase ala carte. 

 

Menu is subject to change based on availability of products. 

 

Meals will only be provided on school calendar days. 

 

Distant Learning students (Monday-Thursday): you will need to pre-order your meals. You will only have one entree option. We are working on an electronic document that will need to be filled out to assist us in ordering and preparing meals for Distance Learners . We will let you know when that becomes available. On the first day of school for your child(ren), breakfast will need to be picked up at door W3 at 8:30am. From 12:45pm-1:15pm, lunch for the day and breakfast for the following day will be picked up, if you chose to have breakfast. Following the first day of school, breakfast and/or lunch will be picked up every school calendar day from 12:45pm-1:15pm at door W3. Since meals are based on Free/Reduced/Paid, you do not need to get every meal. Distance learning students will need to follow the Friday schedule below for meal pick up on Friday's. 

 

Friday's (All Students) 

There will be two pick up times on Friday's. Breakfast Pick up time will be from 8am-8:30am. 

Lunch pick up time will be from 11:30am-12:30pm. 

 

Pick up meals on the table in front of door W3. We will need to know every student's name so meals can be entered into the system.  When you come to pick up your meal, enter from the West side of the school, drive in front of the bus garage, the passenger side of your vehicle should be closest to the school, then drive North towards the large gravel parking lot and exit the school grounds to the West or the North via highway 16.   

  

Since meals are based on Free/Reduced/Paid, you do not need to get every meal. 

You will need to pre-order meals. We are working on a document that will need to be filled out. We will let you know when that becomes available. 

 

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Grand Meadow Public School

   
Author: Paul Besel   E-Mail: pbesel@gm.k12.mn.us