School District of Poynette

Healthy meals are crucial to student success. Our Food service program offers many nutritious options for our students. The food service program operates on a nonprofit basis. The meal and Ala carte prices reflect the amount the district needs to continue to offer this program to our students. The integration of Infinite Campus Food Service with your family’s Infinite Campus Census data and the Parent Portal gives users immediate, secure access to the food service information they need. With this software program, parents/Guardians may access the following information:

• Review food service transactions, such as meal and Ala carte purchases, through the Parent Portal as it is entered on the building-level
• Provide guardians Internet access to their students’ meal selections and the costs incurred from the cafeteria in real time
• Access account balances online
• Receive email notification for low account balances

How Does It Work?

Every student has an account where all of the money for food service can be deposited. Then, as purchases are made through the district food service  program, money is drawn out of the account like a debit card. The student will access their personal account at service times with their PIN NUMBER that they will type into a key pad. All children will be helped with this process as needed.

What Procedures are Followed?

• The food service program follows a pre-payment program. Parents/guardians will remit one payment for the entire family.
• Parents/guardians will allocate account dollar amounts to be dispersed among each student. When parents/guardians submit payment, indicate student name, grade, building and desired dollar amount for each individual student.
• Low Account Balances will be communicated via email. Balances at or below $5.00 will trigger the email notification.
• For families with no email access at work or at home, district secretarial staff will notify families of low account balances. It is important that if families have email access, please use the email notification feature, as individual calls to families will become quite time-consuming for our secretarial staff.
• Parents/guardians will be able to check account balances and student purchases via the Parent Portal

Other Important Information

• Food service payment envelopes are available for families at any of our school offices.
• Families that do not have Infinite Campus Portal accounts and wish to review lunch account information online should register to obtain an account. Registration materials are available from any of the school offices in our district. Complete the registration materials and submit the paperwork to any of our school offices. Upon registration approval, new registrants will receive email notification how to access the new parent portal accounts.
• To ensure prompt email notification of low account balances, contact any of the district offices to update your family’s email contact information
• Families that had remaining balances from the previous school year, please note that your remaining balances are transferred to the new year.
• Students who have an ala carte block on their account should not be allowed to purchase a second entree. The food service staff makes every effort to enforce this policy, but with the lines moving very quickly during  meal service they may not have  time to explain this to each student. Please discuss this with your student BEFORE they take a second entree.

Grab & Go Breakfast Options for Grades 1-12

The Grab N Go breakfast will give your student a healthy start to the day, helping him/her be more alert to learn in class. The Grab 'N Go breakfast is affordable too. If your family qualifies for free/reduced priced meals, you also qualify for the breakfast program, with no additional paperwork.

Wellness Committee

The School District Wellness Committee is always in search of parents, students, staff or community members that would like to join the team. Become involved today and help shape the wellness environment in the district. If interested please contact the District Administrator via email at mshap@poynette.k12.wi.us or call 635-4347 ext 200 . For more information and to view the current Wellness Policy, you may click on the link below.

Farm to School Menu Options

The support of locally grown foods, along with offering increased servings of fresh fruits and vegetables, is a top priority. The menu highlights the Farm to School (F2S) items and increased fresh fruit and veggie options. The high school and middle school students are offered a fresh chef salad choice daily.

Smart Snack Nutrition Standards

The health of today's school environment continues to improve. Students across the country are now offered healthier school meals with more servings of fruits, vegetables and whole grains through the National School Lunch and Breakfast programs. The "Smart Snacks" in school standards published by USDA will build on those healthy advancements by ensuring that all other snack foods and beverages available for sale to our students in school are tasty and nutritious. More information may be found at http://www.fns.usda.gov/

USDA Nondiscrimination Statement

In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA. 

Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits.  Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.  Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.

To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at:http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:

Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture 
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights 
1400 Independence Avenue, SW 
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;  Fax: (202) 690-7442; or Email: program.intake@usda.gov.
This institution is an equal opportunity provider.