ACTION REQUIRED by Friday, July 23, 2021
July 19, 2021
Dear members of The Joseph Sears School community,
 
Historically, students of The Joseph Sears School had the option to go home for lunch. Additionally, all students can participate in a fee-based lunch program sponsored by The Joseph Sears School Parents’ Volunteer Association (JSSPVA) via Marla’s Lunch. This coming school year, due to the repurposing of our former K-5 lunch space (formerly the Multi-Purpose Room/MPR, now the JK/K Learning Hub) and updated COVID-19 lunch related guidelines, we need to allocate spaces for those students staying on campus during lunch and will be requiring trimester-based lunch registration. We are asking that families who choose to stay home for lunch do so for the entirety of the current trimester. We will offer the opportunity to change lunch registration at the beginning of each trimester.

Please understand that our plans for lunch will evolve throughout the school year as the COVID-19 circumstances require. 

Responses for Trimester One (August 18 through November 12, 2021) are needed by this Friday, July 23, 2021, and a separate survey must be completed for each child in your family. Please review the information below to understand the lunch program at Sears before making your decision.
Thank you for your attention to this request,

Mr. Martin Heffner
Assistant Principal

Dr. Stephanie Helfand
Principal

Kenilworth School District No. 38
FROM THE PARENT/STUDENT HANDBOOK
LUNCH/RECESS PERIOD

During lunch, students have the option to remain at school or to sign out and leave campus. There is no additional fee for students to remain at school for lunch. Students on campus during the Lunch/Recess period are under the supervision of faculty and staff. No such supervision is provided, nor any responsibility assumed by Kenilworth School District 38 for students during the time they leave school during the Lunch/Recess Period and until they return to campus.

During the open campus Lunch/Recess period, students must check out with their teacher before lunch and sign out on one of the sheets located at the Baker Building exit doors or in the School Office. Failure to comply with this requirement will result in the withdrawal of the privilege to leave campus during the Lunch/Recess period.

Lunch at Joseph Sears School is from 11:49 a.m. to 12:39 p.m. Students should bring their lunch each day of school unless their parent has ordered through the JSSPVA approved lunch program. Outside lunches should not be delivered to the school, and on the rare exception that a lunch is forgotten, a sack lunch may be dropped off, clearly labeled with student name, grade, and homeroom, on the cart in the main entrance foyer by 11:30 a.m. Although we have been lenient with this expectation in the past, this expectation must be strictly observed as we navigate COVID-19. Parents will be contacted after the third incident of their child not bringing lunch and may be required to meet with the Principal/Assistant Principal.
Responsibility, Kindness, Honesty, Respect