Also available as a PDF here: WPS Canteen Menu 2017
Category Archives: Canteen
Did you know?
Here at Woodend we have a Healthy Eating Committee. At our first committee meeting for the year, we worked on defining our purpose and directions. This is our purpose:
Healthy eating and drinking at Woodend Primary School is about improving the health and wellbeing of our children. We can do this by:
- Providing healthy food and beverages and support students and families to make better choices about their consumption
- Promoting nutritious and healthy choices
We reference the Government of South Australia’s Right Bite Healthy Food and Drink Supply Strategy for South Australian Pre schools and Schools to ensure we are consistent with the recommended guidelines.
Our committee consists of canteen staff, parent volunteers and representatives of school leadership. Student volunteers support the canteen program. We also consult with students during times of planning and decision making.
We avoid marketing commercialized products where possible. We aim to promote produce that is freshly made to families.
In our efforts to continually improve our choices on our ‘Woodies Goodies’ menu we will let you know items that we have available or are about to trial. We are always in need of volunteers to assist us prepare more nutritious and healthy choices. If there is any day of the week that you can spare 15 minutes, 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes – any amount of time, we would be very grateful of your help. All you need to do is call in at our canteen or let front office staff know of your interest. Our friendly canteen staff are: Helen Lewis, Di Thomas and Lee Francis. They would be very welcoming and happy to see you volunteer in the canteen!
Two recent snack items we have available are:
- Fruit salad cups – a variety of fresh seasonal fruits in a cup $1.00
- Yoghurt cups – low fat vanilla flavoured yoghurt topped with fresh fruit 50c
You can encourage your child to buy one and give them a try! They are nice and cold and taste delicious especially on a warm day. We look forward to seeing you as a volunteer and or your child coming to buy at our canteen.
Canteen support
We are very supportive of this year’s Healthy Eating committee and Parent Network who have developed strategies for lifting the profile of Woodend’s school canteen. One initiative is to increase the number of volunteers to support the canteen staff and maintain the quality service. Parent Network are enlisting the support of volunteers from each classroom so that over this year, the canteen should be able to have more volunteers per week.
If you are able to help in the canteen on any day anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours, the canteen staff, Helen and Di would be very grateful. If you are interested, please see Kerri at the Front Office or call in at the canteen.
Lunch Orders
Lunch order bags with money are collected in each classroom and taken to the canteen by 9.15am
Lunches are ready for collection at 12:45pm
For prices lists and more information on our school canteen click here. The brown lunch order bags can be purchased in a pack from your supermarket, generally in the food warp isle.