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SCS welcomes Barbara Moore-Cootware as food service manager Schoharie Central recently welcomed Barbara Moore-Cootware as food services manager, sharing her with Middleburgh Central School District, where she also serves in that position. Moore-Cootware fills a vacancy created when Josie Ennist accepted a position with the state Health Department. "Barbara's food services experience Middleburgh, including her expertise with the mySchoolBucks payment service, enabled a particularly smooth transition for Schoharie, and we are very pleased to have her on our staff," said Superintendent Brian Sherman. "Sharing services is also an asset for both of our districts during these financially challenging times." Although she divides her time between the two districts, Moore-Cootware can be reached via email at BCootware@schoharie.k12.ny.us or at the Food Services Office, 295-6618.
mySchoolBucks online meal account system Schoharie Central School’s Food Service Department provides parents and guardians with a convenient and secure online payment service called mySchoolBucks.com. This website will allows parents and
guardians to deposit money directly into a child's school meal account
and view balance/purchase information for the past 90 days. Having money
in a child’s account prior to his or her entering the cafeteria allows
lunch lines to move along much faster and gives children more time to
eat and be with friends. Parents/guardians may access mySchoolBucks.com by clicking here to create and then add money to their child’s school meal account. All that's needed is the child’s name, school, and student ID number. Instructions are being provided with a letter to parents; click here to download a pdf of the letter and instructions . Parents and guardians also should know: - If you have more than one child in the district,
you can handle all online prepayments from the same online account. - To use the online prepayment service, a convenience fee of $1.95 per deposit transaction will be assessed to cover bank fees. Parents placing money into multiple meal accounts will only be assessed the $1.95 fee once per deposit transaction. - You may fund up to $120 per child, but a family may pay for all of their children on a single transaction. - Schoharie Central School will not profit from the use of this site. - Parents and guardians who choose not to take advantage of the online payment service may continue to make advance payments via check made payable to Schoharie Central School Lunch Fund. Please remember to write your child’s full name on the check. For questions about this new service, contact the Food Services office at 518-295-6618.
Link to mySchoolBucks online payment system: https://www.myschoolbucks.com/
NUTRIkids POS system is convenient, confidential, health-promoting Schoharie Central School has a new, computerized
Point of Sale (POS) payment system, called NUTRIkids, for all meals
purchased in our cafeteria. Individual student ID numbers, personal meal
accounts, food allergy information, confidentiality and ability for
parents to easily deposit money into their children's account all add up
to a system that's convenient and promotes healthy eating.
New lunch regulations promote healthier eating School meals offer students milk, fruits and vegetables, proteins and grains, and they must meet strict limits on saturated fat and portion size. As of September 2012, school lunches will meet additional standards requiring:
Our menus will feature more information about the new school meal standards. Good nutrition = better learning Good nutrition is vital for growing bodies and
minds. Our school participates in
the National School Lunch Program, which offers nutritious meals for
students for free or at a reduced cost, If you need assistance with completing the form, please email Food Service Manager Barbara Moore-Cootware or call her at 295-6618. All information is confidential. If you are aware of an extended family or relative who may be eligible to apply for this service, please consider sharing this form with them. » CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH APPLICATION FORM (PDF) - 2012-13 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FUN AND INFORMATIVE FLIER ABOUT HEALTHY SCHOOL MEALS
School lunches boost children's health, according to study A study by Iowa State researchers confirmed that the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) improves the health outcomes of children who reside in low-income households. The study of nearly 2,700 NSLP children (ages 6-17) found that the NSLP reduces the prevalence of food insecurity by 3.8 percent, poor general health by 29 percent, and the rate of obesity by at least 17 percent in its participants. READ MORE
Monthly Lunch Menus Menus are updated monthly. Lunch items are subject to change. » High School and Elementary Lunch Menu (PDF) School Lunch Fund The SCS School Lunch Program strongly encourages parents to make payments to your child’s account by the week or month, in the form of a check if possible, as that is the easiest way to keep track of balances. Checks can be made payable to SCS School Lunch Fund. For elementary students please remember to put payments in an envelope labeled with your child’s full name (and names of any siblings that are to receive account payments) and teacher’s name. Meal Charging Policy Students that have “debits” or negative balance in their account are not permitted to purchase snacks (e.g., ice cream, chips, etc.). Also, students may “charge” or debit the POS up to $9.00. Then parents will be contacted, and students will be offered a peanut butter sandwich and milk until the charges/debits are paid. Thank you for your continued support of the SCS School Lunch/Breakfast Program! School Lunch/Breakfast Account Status Receipts Since we have started the new Point of Sale (POS) cash register system there have been many inquiries about student’s account balances. Therefore, we have begun printing a cash register receipt for students putting money in their account, and for students with debits or negative account balance. These receipts are given to students when the transaction is made and contain the account balance. If the receipt has “Balance CR,” that means credit, and the student has a positive balance in their account, if the receipt has “Balance DB,” that means debit, and the student has a negative balance (or “charges) on their account. Parents should contact Barbara Moore-Cootware, School Lunch Manager, at 295-6618 if they see any discrepancies with the reported balance, or wish to check on an account balance. The POS system maintains a transaction report for each student and this report can be provided to parents if there are any questions regarding a students account. "Choose Sensibly" Snacks Hit The words “Choose Sensibly” along with a yellow logo are popping up in both the Elementary and Jr/Sr High School Cafeterias. Those words and that logo identify a snack item that fits within the guidelines set by the New York State School Nutrition Association’s “Choose Sensibly” campaign. This is a program that endeavors to improve the nutritional quality of the snacks our children are selecting. According to these guidelines a sensible snack will have:
The standards for beverages are:
Schoharie Central School Lunch Program began to implement this program last year and for this school year will have many new "Choose Sensibly" snacks available for ala carte sales during lunch. This year students will find the "Choose Sensibly" logo on items like baked chips, fresh fruit, bottled water, peanut butter crackers, rice cakes, granola bars and small sized Little Debbie cookies. "Choose Sensibly" Ice cream products so far include Minute Maid Juice Bars, Fudgesicles, Creamscicles, and Scribblers. The School Lunch Program continues to search for other snack items children enjoy that meet the "Choose Sensibly" guidelines. The "Choose Sensibly" campaign was designed to encourage and motivate students to buy single serve snacks that meet the "Choose Sensibly" nutritional profile, rather than those that contain higher grams of fat, sugar and sodium and contain more than one serving per container.
For past Food Services articles and photos, visit the Food Services Archive Page
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