Lunches
Hot lunch is available each full day of school. The cost is $2.50/meal which includes milk. Reduced lunch price is 25¢ for eligible students. It is recommended that students having hot lunch on a regular basis prepay for any number of lunches desired. Please make checks payable to BVSD (Boulder Valley School District). Your student will turn in a check or cash to their classroom teacher at the beginning of the school day. It is helpful if you would note the name of your student on the check, and if the money is to be split between siblings. If you would like to pay for lunches by credit card, go to the website at www.bvsd.org. This is the only credit card system that parents can use. Forms are available in the office to submit to the BVSD Accounting Dept., or you can call the Accounting Dept. directly at (303) 447-5138, ext. 3031. When your child has one lunch left in their account, and each day their account has a negative balance, they will get their hand stamped by the cashier.
Each student will use their unique student identification number to access their lunch account. Students will enter this number on the computer key pad in the cafeteria. Once their number is entered, the cashier will see your child’s name, grade level, classroom teacher, and their picture if they had their picture taken with Heatherwood last year on the computer screen. Each student is assigned a number that is used in the cafeteria computer system to keep track of individual accounts.
Students bringing their own lunch may purchase white or chocolate milk for 50¢ or orange juice for 50¢. Students may provide their own drink; however, canned pop is prohibited. Heatherwood cooks will sell ala carte and snack items to students, as long as money is in their lunch account. Money must be in your child’s account in order for them to purchase these extra items. We do not have the staff or facilities to warm-up students food brought from home.
The monthly lunch menu will be sent home with each child and is also available on the district website at www.bvsd.org. A weekly menu is also published in the Boulder Daily Camera.
It is important that the school nurse, teacher and the cafeteria staff be aware of any food allergies of any student. A note from the student’s doctor needs to be given to the office. Every effort will be made to accommodate any allergies in tray preparation for those students. 1% milk is served.
Cafeteria Rules
All students are expected to follow the cafeteria rules and act appropriately.
- Students should talk in a soft and quiet voice.
- Students should remain seated except to get help, to get milk or juice or to use the restroom. The lunchroom supervisor or custodian will dismiss a student when the student has finished lunch, cleaned the portion of the table where he/she was sitting and conducted him/herself in an appropriate manner.
- Students should use appropriate table manners.
- Students should be helpful by stacking trays, recycling their trash in the correct containers, throwing trash away and putting other eating utensils in the appropriate containers.
- Students should be respectful of one another and of adults.
Students are responsible for their behavior and appropriate eating habits in the cafeteria. Each week teachers will choose one or two students to be in charge of their classroom tables. These students will monitor behavior and remind their class to “bus” their own lunch refuse. Students will provide a report on appropriate manners and behaviors to the lunchroom supervisor and their teachers.