School Lunch

St. Vrain Community Montessori School offers school lunch through the St. Vrain Valley School District’s Department of Nutrition Services. All students are eligible to receive one free lunch each school day through Colorado Department of Education's Healthy School Meals for All program.

Lunch Menus & Forms

Though meals are free to students, families who believe they may qualify for free or reduced-price meals are still encouraged to fill out an application. In addition to numerous SVVSD district benefits, families with free or reduced education benefit status qualify for a discount on SVCMS fees. Families may apply or reapply anytime.

Applications for free and reduced-price school meals, instructions and an informational letter to households are available at 2929 Clover Basin Dr, Longmont or online. Only one application is required for all students in the household. The information provided on the application is confidential and will be used only for determining eligibility and verifying data.

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School breakfast & lunch service are available through the St. Vrain Valley School District Nutrition Services.

You can view the menu here. Make sure you select “St. Vrain Montessori” in the school menu. To see Children’s House selections, select “PK Super Snack.”
Breakfast and lunch are free for all students due to the Healthy School Meals for All Program.
Students do not need to order breakfast or lunch in advance. We have a system in place that will allow the Nutrition Services staff to track meals received with student ID’s. At breakfast or lunchtime, students simply need to get in line and follow staff directions. This also means that students who forget a lunch may eat school lunch without prior notice.
If your child has an allergy or dietary restriction, see this page for information and instructions.
If your child would like the option to take extra school lunch items, you can add funds to their SVVSD account so they can do so. See this page to learn how to log into or create an account. To create a new account, the information needed is the student's last name and 6-digit student ID number. You can find the student ID on Infinite Campus.
The cafeteria can also take cash or a check made out to SVVSD Nutrition Services; they can deposit it right into the student's account in the cafeteria.
If you have further questions, please see this page.

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Breakfast service begins at 8:00 a.m. in the cafeteria. Students may enter the cafeteria for breakfast via the cafeteria doors on the West side of the building* beginning at 8:00 a.m. If your child will be eating breakfast, please drop them off by 8:10 a.m. so they have time to pick up and eat breakfast before school begins.

*This is true even if you would typically drop off on the East side of the building.

Once a student is in the building, we prefer for them to remain in the building rather than going in and out. Therefore, if a child would like to both play on the playground and eat breakfast, they ought to play before coming in to eat. Then, they should remain in the cafeteria until they are dismissed to their classroom.

We will start announcing a “last call” for breakfast around 8:10-8:15 a.m. on the playground to support children in making it to breakfast with enough time to eat. Please discuss this expectation with your child so they understand.

Children’s House

Due to licensing guidelines, pre-kindergarten students must be accompanied by an adult caregiver over the age of 18 (parent/guardian, nanny, family friend, etc.) to breakfast. Accompanying adults must remain in the cafeteria with their child and cannot access other parts of the building. At 8:25, adults will be asked to vacate the cafeteria, and school staff will support your child in walking to their classroom. We do check IDs at the door before letting adults in for breakfast.

Kindergartners are considered school-age students for licensing purposes Therefore, if your kindergartner is able to eat breakfast independently, they do not need a caregiver present. Instead, they can be dropped off by the West side cafeteria doors. You are welcome to accompany your kindergartner if they could use support at breakfast.

The Montessori methodology of learning emphasizes practical life skills that children obtain as they progress through various developmental stages. One of these skills is proper nutrition; including the planning, preparation, and cleanup of a meal. Families, therefore, might choose to involve children in these tasks in developmentally-appropriate ways.

We feel that each family should decide what the child is eating, to reflect their own beliefs, dietary choices, and preferences. Similarly important, each family can also monitor how well the child is eating based on what comes back in the lunch container.

Please DO NOT send:

Carbonated soft drinks (even if all natural)
Candy
Vitamins, supplements, or herbal remedies

If children come to school with these items, we will set them in a safe place and return them at the end of the day.

For the safety of all, under no circumstances will children be permitted to share another child’s lunch food or “trade” with another child. We encourage each family to involve their child as they plan and prepare the daily lunch menu.

Please label your child’s lunch from home.

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Breakfast: Please see the "Breakfast" tab for important information about Children's House students and breakfast.

School Lunch: Children's House students are eligible to receive school lunch as well.

At the beginning of the year, we distributed school lunch tags. If you would like your child to have school lunch for the day, please pin the tag to the top of your child's backpack.

If you forget to pin the tag onto your child's backpack, please call the front office as soon as possible and no later than 9:00 a.m. This is when we place the lunch counts for the day.

You can view the lunch options at this link. There is one option for CH students for lunch, labeled labeled "PK Super Snack".

If you child has a dietary medical restrictions and or allergy, we strongly recommend you fill out the appropriate SVVSD form at this link. Lunch options are created through SVVSD, and this is the avenue to modify these options.