Members of Mrs. Glowa’ s Dramatic Arts class took the“ show on the road” when they visited Nicely Elementary to perform puppet shows for students in kindergarten, first, and second grades. The high school students wrote and choreographed the scripts that focused on making good choices, patience, honesty, and resisting peer pressure involving bullying, drugs, and alcohol. Funding for the puppets came through the Thomas Nega Drug-Free Lifestyle Grant from the Westmoreland Drug and Alcohol Commission.

Every student is assigned an account that can be accessed only by their student PIN( Personal Identification Number). Once given to a student, the PIN remains the same from year to year. When making a purchase at the cafeteria, the student enters his / her PIN and if there is money in the account, the price of the purchase, including ala carte items, is deducted from the account balance.

Students with no funds in their account will not be permitted to charge ala carte items to their account. The district my impose charge limits for individuals who fail to keep their account current. Funds in the student’ s account can only be used for cafeteria purchases. The SNAP system will automatically recognize the students who meet eligibility requirements for free or reduced meals and make appropriate deductions.

Students / parents can place money into individual accounts by sending a check( made payable to the Greensburg Salem Cafeteria Fund) to school. In addition, families now have the opportunity to use MyLunchMoney. com, a service that offers a review of a child’ s cafeteria purchases, as well as allowing prepayment to the cafeteria account using a credit or debit card. Cafeteria purchases can only be reviewed within the most recent seven school days. Accounts on MyLunchMoney can be created free-of-charge, without providing credit card information, to give any parent the ability to review student cafeteria purchases. Families are not required to make deposits into their child’ s account using the MyLunchMoney service.

GREENSBURG SALEM SCHOOL DISTRICT NEWS

In order to provide a continuing record of each student’ s academic progress in comparison with students nationally and in Pennsylvania, the Greensburg Salem School District conducts a yearly testing program. These results are an invaluable aid to your child’ s teacher and counselor in diagnosing individual academic strengths and weaknesses. They are also necessary to provide the district with information for examining curriculum and instruction.

Your child’ s scores will be maintained in the school records as specified in the Policy on Collection, Maintenance and Dissemination of Student Records. You have the right to examine these tests before your child is tested. No individual or agency outside the school system will be permitted to inspect your child’ s school record without your written permission. Should your child transfer to another school system, his or her records will be sent to that school system without your notification. Should you wish to examine your child’ s record file at any time, you may arrange to do so by making an appointment through the building principal.

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