Hot Lunch Program

Are you looking for options for free meals served in local and surrounding communities through the Summer Food Service Program?  Locations of SFSP sites can be found on the Summer Eats MN website HERE or the USDA Summer Meals map HERE.  

Lunch at school is part of the total learning situation and, as such, good conduct and manners are to be expected. Table manners and other lunchroom etiquette are discussed as a regular part of respecting others. Rules are posted in the lunchroom and the classrooms.

 CKC is managing our hot lunch program this year. The federally-funded Free Meals for Kids program ended in June 2022, which means that school meals are no longer free for the 2022-23 school year. See below for meal pricing.

Breakfast - no breakfast available this year

Student Lunch $3.90

Milk only $.35

Ordering Hot Lunch 

Parents will receive a link in Mr. Hurley’s newsletters to preorder lunches for the upcoming month.  We will get these to you as soon as we get them from CKC and will usually be due around the 20th of each month for the upcoming month.  Lunches will need to be preordered for the entire month - if your child would like to receive the scheduled lunch. Due to the CKC procedure of charging for every lunch preordered, we have to instill the following policy so the school does not incur additional costs;  preordered lunches will be charged to your account regardless if the student does not take the preordered lunch. (This includes if your child is missing school due to an unexcused absence or if they forgot and brought a cold lunch, etc.  Exceptions will be made for a child who is home with an illness.) If your child did not preorder lunch but needs a lunch the day of, we will have a shelf stable lunch available for purchase at the same cost as hot lunch.  

PayPams

We are using PayPams as our lunch accounting software.  Parents will have their own account through PayPams to prepay for lunch for students.  Please see below for the basics on how to sign up.  Additional information on PayPams is on the flyer linked below.  

New Users Sign Up Now

1. Go to PayPAMS.com and click on the ‘Sign Up Now!’ button on the home page. 

2. Select MN, then select Saint John School of Little Canada for the school district. 

3. Create a username and password and enter your contact information. 

4. Add children to your account. 

5. Make payments or set up automatic payments based on low balances.

Educational Benefits

We ask that every family fill out an Application for Educational Benefits (previously Free and Reduced Lunch form).  We ask that you fill this out even if you don't believe you will qualify for free/reduced lunches. District funding for our school relies on the information from these applications.  Therefore, we need every family to submit one asap, so we do not miss out on any funding available to us. See the link below for the online application.  

More information on the Educational Benefits application:

• A new application must be completed EACH YEAR.
• These complete forms not only provide meal benefits but can help your school get crucial funding. 
• Applications can be completed online at this direct link, or
  • www.paypams.com/onlineapp
  • Select MN and Saint John School of Little Canada for the district
  • Follow the instructions to complete the application

Should you need a paper application, please use the link below, stop in the school office, or notify Kathy LaCasse, klacasse@sjolc.org.

Please see flyer linked below for more information on PayPams ApplyNow online Educational Benefits application.  

For the most updated Local School Wellness Policy, please visit our school handbook and information document HERE. 

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