Goretti Galley Staff

Head Cook: Mr. Peter Zenz
St. Maria Goretti begins in-house home-cooked lunch program

An in-house hot lunch program is available for students in grades K-8 everyday. Menus will be provided for your review on a monthly basis and may be found in the Cardinal Envelope. Meal selection includes a choice of 2 entrees, and a tally will be taken each morning to determine the number of meals that need to be prepared that day. Parents, siblings and others are invited to join us for a fee of $2.35. Please call the school office in the morning and have your name added to the tally. Extra servings are available for a fee of $.50. A lunch "bank account" is kept with monthly statements generated to keep you up to date of your available funds. Money is paid in advance for meals, and you may not carry an outstanding balance for more than one month.

Parents whose children participate in hot lunch are expected to volunteer in the cafeteria/kitchen, five times a year. You have the option of paying a $100.00 fee in lieu of volunteering your time. "No show" volunteers will be charged $30.00, and these funds will be paid to the parent who replaces you. You may try to find your own replacement if you need to change your duty day, or have unforeseen circumstances that prevent your helping on that day. We need to have 3 volunteers per day to make the program function well. Milk is included in the cost of a hot lunch meal, but must be paid separately if your child/ren takes cold lunch. This cost is $.25.

There is a lunch milk program for the pre-school program only, and is offered 5 days a week. Orders are placed in advance, and, payment must be made by the semester. An informational letter is sent home at the beginning of each semester.

LUNCHTIME PLAYGROUND - RECESS
This year we will have paid regular paid supervisors on our playground during the lunchtime recess. Each family will be asked to pay $50.00 to help defray the cost of the supervisors. It is important to have consistent supervision for the safety of the children. Each supervisor will have Virtus training and a thorough Background Check.

While we realize that there are certain times when the weather is too inclement for anyone to be outside (in which case indoor lunch and recess periods are scheduled for all) please bear the following in mind when preparing the children for school:

• Please prepare your child for cold weather. Areas of the body vulnerable to exposure to the cold should be covered (i.e. head, neck, hands, feet, etc.). In order to play on the snow at morning drop-off and/or recess, children in grades K-5 must have snow pants and boots. Middle School students must have boots. Without this clothing, children must stay on the blacktop only.
• If your doctor has advised that your child not go outdoors for recess, please send a dated note for each day that the student must remain indoors. If a child is too ill to go outside for recess she/he is probably too ill to be in school.