Nuts and Bolts
Volunteer Information
Parents are encouraged to volunteer in classrooms, chaperone field trips, and be a volunteer driver. In order to volunteer in the classroom or on school-sponsored functions, all parents or guardians must complete the Volunteer Release Form and be approved through the district process prior to any activities. Please allow up to 2 weeks for processing.
Parents driving or chaperoning a field trip must have the Volunteer Driver Form and Chaperone Responsibility Form completed in addition to the Volunteer Release Form. All forms can be found on the District Volunteer/Chaperone page.
Volunteer, Driver and Chaperone forms must be submitted for approval each school year.
If you have turned in a volunteer release form and would like to know the status please call the Angell office at 248-837-8500 or send an email to Heather Schneider.
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Lunch Information
Important Information About Free Meals for 2023-24 School Year
Breakfast and Lunch are FREE for all students for the 2023-24 school year.
This important message contains information about free meals for students, how your child can still purchase milk for a fee and where to find lunch menus.
Free Meal Information
For the 2023-24 school year, the State of Michigan created the Michigan School Meals Program allowing all school meals to be free to all students, no matter their free/reduced meal status. However, filling out a free/reduced meal form is very important to families who are eligible and for the District to receive funding.
Family Benefits for Qualifying for Free/Reduced Meals
When families qualify for free/reduced price meals, they are also eligible for the following benefits:
- Reduced Summer School fees
- Reduced Athletics Resource Fees for students grades 6-12
- Reduced field trip fees
- Reduced AP testing fees
- Potential additional benefits for Bridge Cards/P-EBT
- Potential support for household cable/internet
- Potential programs that provide holiday support
Berkley School District Benefits for Qualifying Free/Reduced Meal Families
Did you know the federal government uses the number of free/reduced meal applications to determine how much money the district receives in grant funding?
- Berkley School District becomes eligible for federal funds (Title I) when qualifying families fill out their free/reduced meal applications. If families do not fill out their forms, the District is at risk of losing funding for staff who provide critical services to our students.
Visit the Berkley School District’s Food Service webpage to view the paper application, Federal Income Guidelines, and Frequently Asked Questions.
Apply for free/reduced meals through the MISTAR Parent Portal.
Purchasing Milk
Students are welcome to bring meals from home and purchase milk as needed. In order to do this, each student will need funds added to their food service account, or money sent in to pay at the time of purchase. Families can add funds by logging into MISTAR Parent Portal and clicking on “Click to add funds to food service accounts.” Milk can be purchased for 75¢.
Lunch Menus
Lunch menus and detailed nutritional information can be found on the District’s Nutrislice webpage and app. Nutrislice contains details for each meal including ingredients. Contact Berkley Food Service Director, Lavon Larson for more information: Lavon.Larson@berkleyschools.org.
Lunch menu PDFs are posted monthly to the Food Services webpage as well.
Berkley Schools and ARAMARK have teamed up to provide your students with the fuel that they need to have a successful academic career here at Berkley Schools. ARAMARK provides nutritious meals in accordance with USDA standards.
Nutrislice
Detailed nutrition information regarding menu options can be found by clicking on the NutriSlice link below.
Our students have dedicated lunch periods (A Lunch and B Lunch) each day. We have three grade levels eat in our first session that we call A Lunch and we have three grade levels eat in our second session we call B Lunch. All lunches take place in the gym and students sit in assigned areas. Each lunch period is followed by a lunch recess, as well. The schedule for A and B Lunch is below:
LUNCH A
- TK/K, 2nd and 5th Grades
- Lunch: 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
- Recess: 12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
LUNCH B
- 1st, 3rd, and 4th Grades
- Lunch: 12:00 PM - 12:25 PM
- Recess: 12:25 PM - 12:50 PM