Nutrition Services

What is Breakfast after the bell?

How will students get breakfast?

Breakfast is served in the cafeteria starting at 7:50a.m., Elementary students eat in the cafeteria until 8:20a.m. then they are handed a sack meal to take to class. High School/Middle School are following the same practice. Hot meals are available in the cafeteria and at 8:20a.m. get a sack meals will be available from the office as second chance breakfast.

For more information regarding Breakfast after the bell, please visit the OSPI website here.

2024-2025 Letter to Parents regarding survey

Child Nutrition Eligibility and Education Benefits Application (EN)

Solicitud de Elegibilidad para la Nutrición Infantil y Beneficios Educativos (ES)

Family income survey

Encuesta de ingresos familiares

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program

Wellness Policy

Summer 2022 update: OSPI and DSHS published updates regarding P-EBT benefits being available through the summer (2022), including information about how children under six years old may qualify, that may be read here at the OSPI website and here at the DSHS site.

To help ensure eligibility for the Pandemic EBT program, please make certain your contact information and address on file with the district is up-to-date or contact your student's building secretary to update your information. You will also need to make sure that you have an up-to-date Family income survey / Encuesta de ingresos familiares on file with Nutrition Services to ensure eligibility. Learn more at www.dshs.wa.gov/pebt,  www.textpebt.dshs.wa.gov, or call the P-EBT Contact Center at 1-833-518-0282 with questions. 

Does you student have special dietary needs? Please complete this form from OSPI.

1. At the start of each school year, the Warden School District will notify all families of the availability of special dietary accommodations. This notice will instruct families to contact the school office for additional information.
2. If the office receives a request for information, families will be given a copy of the "Request for Special Dietary Accommodations", and the school nurse will be notified.
3. Any reports of a child with a food allergy or other impairment that affects their diet must be reported to the school nurse.
4. If the school nurse is informed of a special dietary need, or if a parent submits a Health History form identifying a food allergy or any other impairment that may affect their child's diet, the school nurse will notify the family that in order to facilitate the special dietary need, the school must receive a completed Request for Special Dietary Accommodations Form signed by a recognized medical authority.
5. If families would like to have a special dietary accommodation for their child, the school nurse will send them a copy of the Request for Special Dietary Accommodations Form.
6. When a family returns the Request for Special Dietary Accommodations Form, the child's dietary needs will be accommodated immediately.
7. Kitchen staff, including cashiers, will be informed of the new accommodation and either introduced to the child or given a copy of the child's picture. The special dietary accommodation will also be entered into the SIS system (Skyward) by office personnel.
8. If family does not return the form, the school will not accommodate the special dietary need.
9. If a family returns an incomplete form, the family is notified that more information is needed and is given 60 days to return a completed form. The child's special dietary need is accommodated during that time. If the completed form is not returned after 60 days, the family is notified that the child's dietary needs will not be accommodated until a completed form is received by the school.
10. All Request for Special Dietary Accommodation Forms will be kept in a confidential folder in the School Nurse's office, the food service office and with the food service cashiers.

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   U.S. Department of Agriculture
   Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
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