Starting October 19th, free meal pickup will be held two days a week for virtual students, Mondays and Wednesdays.
Beginning Monday, to save families time picking up free breakfast and lunch for virtual students, the Quakertown Community School District is changing its pickup schedule.
Starting October 19th, free meal pickup will be held two days a week, Mondays and Wednesdays. On Mondays, students can receive meals for two days, and on Wednesday for three days.
As many families are aware, elementary students began full-day live schedules five days a week on Monday. Secondary students are scheduled to do the same on Wednesday, November 18th. There are many students, however, who have chosen to remain with virtual instruction. Those students may continue to pick up free meals on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Pickup remains at the Quakertown Community High School bus loop from 11:15 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
In addition, the United States Department of Agriculture has extended a nationwide waiver to allow the Quakertown Community School District to provide FREE meals to ALL students regardless of need through the end of the 2020-21 school year, or until available federal funding runs out. No qualification or identification is needed.
Here’s more information about breakfast and lunch in QCSD:
Breakfast is served in all school cafeterias starting 20 minutes before the first class. Social distancing is in place in each location.
All lunches are cold service, with three selections daily: A sandwich or wrap, a salad with a protein and roll, or a Grape/Peanut Butter Uncrustable. An assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables along with milk are available daily.
For Virtual Learners, as was mentioned above, bagged breakfasts and lunches are available for pick-up Monday and Wednesdays at the high school bus loop from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The high school has three Grab N Go locations where lunches are available for students. The locations are the Senior and Junior locker pods as well as the cafeteria. Service is available starting at 12:45 p.m. For Upper Bucks County Technical School students, lunches are available for pick-up in the cafeteria at 10:30 a.m.
Strayer Middle School has three Grab N Go locations in the cafeteria for students to get their lunch before leaving for the day. Dismissal times are staggered to help alleviate lines.
At the Sixth Grade Center, student lunches are ordered in the morning, assembled by the cafeteria staff, and then delivered by aides to classrooms and distributed before dismissal.
All elementary school students have lunch in their classrooms. Students need to order their lunches in homeroom. Lunches are assembled by the cafeteria staff, with aides delivering to rooms at the scheduled lunch periods.
For questions, please contact the Food Service Department at (215) 529-2018.