Canteen News

Hello from the Canteen

Brrrr it seems winter has well and truly hit! We would like to thank all families who have supported us this year so far, by buying their children a warm lunch or a cold treat, supporting our special days or coming in and helping with cooking and serving. We would also like to again thank our super team of years 5s and 6s who help us with vouchers, kindy orders and serving at lunchtimes. 

We finished off the term with a celebration special, having jelly cups, freddo frogs, Balfours Dottie cookies and Zooper Doopers.

We wish everyone a fun and healthy winter holiday (go away winter germs!) and hope we see all our students back happy and healthy ready for learning next term. 

Stock and menu update

Our canteen follows the Right Bite Guidelines to ensure we are providing enough healthy options and appropriate serving sizes. The Right Bite Guidelines have recently been updated and we are in the process of checking our menu to make sure items still align and are ok for sale in a Primary School setting. If any changes need to be made they will be communicated in future newsletters and via seesaw.

As always the QKR! menu will also show current availability/out of stock items and specials so please use QKR! to order if you can. Parents and students are also still able to come into the canteen in the mornings to purchase food for lunches or a special treat from our frozen range. 

How can you help us to keep our price increases minimal and ensure we continue to open for 4 days each week? Place orders and volunteer! We really do need more parent volunteers so we can continue to bring you wonderful in-house cooked meals. You do not need to make a regular commitment to volunteer. Even helping us out when we have a canteen special and need volunteers to help cook really makes a difference. It can be one day a week or one day a month. It is all appreciated. A Working with Children Check is required but easily obtained and you also must complete a Volunteer Induction course online and the School will assist you with this. If you are able to give the canteen some of your time, please see Karran or Michelle at the canteen or email parent.support483@schools.sa.edu.au.

Student reminders 

Students with frozen treat vouchers need to make sure they bring them to the canteen to be able to receive their treat. Treat vouchers are now being stamped and checked to ensure students get the correct items. When possible, please don't send children with notes larger than $10.00 unless you are ordering lunches for more than one child. 

Preschool

It has been great to see some preschool orders coming in the last few weeks! Preschool students are welcome to order lunches, drinks, and snack foods (unfortunately not frozen treats unless you are wanting to order one of our Birthday Buckets) however they must use QKR! to order because they do not bring a lunch tray to us in the mornings. 

If you (parent/carer) need to do a preschool cash order you will need to visit the canteen in person between 9-9.30am to place the order. If you need help setting up QKR! please come in and see us in the in the canteen or the school office, we can help you do this.  Any lunch orders will be delivered to the preschool at lunchtime by our team of year 5/6 helpers. 

Ordering cut-off time 

The cut-off time for QKR! orders is 8.50am each morning. Please check orders carefully and make sure you have selected the right day for your order. If ordering for more than one child, please check that the correct items are listed under each child's name on the summary screen before you pay. Sometimes QKR! gets overloaded and takes some time to process orders, so try not to leave ordering until the last minute! Any cash orders still need to be brought down in the class tray by 9.15am. 

If you have pre-ordered food on QKR! and your child is going to be absent, please cancel the order by 9.30am or it will be charged for. (Applies to lunch food items only. Drinks, snacks, and ice-creams can be held until the next day) To cancel, ring the front office and ask to be transferred to the canteen. Children arriving late wanting to do cash orders will have limited choices and will not be able to order after 10.30am 

Thank you to the families who have let us know when your child is going to be absent, it means they can get the order on another day and is also reducing food wastage.