The Coogee Canteen is operated by the P&C with the aim of providing high quality, allergy aware healthy snacks and meals to students and staff at reasonable cost.
WELCOME
The Coogee Canteen is operated by our P&C with the aim of providing high quality, allergy aware healthy snacks and lunchtime meals to students and staff at reasonable cost.
We meet and exceed the requirements of the NSW Healthy Canteen Strategy 2017. We avoid colourings and preservatives where possible. We also aim to minimise waste and work with the school’s waste, recycling and composting programs. We also grow and use a few herbs in our own garden!
Click on the image above to watch our Healthy Canteen video!
How we keep getting better & better …
Where possible, we endeavour to source organic and free range produce. We hand-make and prepare a range of snack and lunchtime menu items in the canteen each day.
We rely heavily on the support of parent volunteers (keep scrolling down for the link to volunteer).
As a P&C activity, the Canteen belongs to the parent body and is always looking to improve and reflect the wishes and needs of parents, so feedback is most welcome.
Parent and volunteers suggestions are welcome and we will add items to our menu based on this feedback . In 2020 a parent offered to make new items for the canteen
We love student suggestions and we have made changes to our menu base on these suggestions, recently the focus has been providing more vegetarian options and also lactose free, gluten free and vegan options
You can also follow our Healthy Canteen Facebook page to keep up to date with all our latest news or check out our updates below!
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Contact Us
Missed the Morning Order Cut off?
Phone the school and ask for ‘Canteen’. Please don’t email as we are buzzing around the kitchen and nowhere near the laptop till afternoon.
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FAQs
Find out about our Flexischools Ordering System, our Cashless Policy, Kindy & Year 1 Procedures, Recess and Lunch times and food options, PSSA Sport & Upside Down Fridays, Allergy Awareness & Dietary Needs, as well as Forgotten Lunches, IOU Payments and more!
Please note that Crunch ‘n’ Sip at 10am each day is not provided by the canteen and must be sent with your child each day.
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Celebrating Birthdays at School
In our “Ice treats” section, you are able to order any of our ice treats (quelch. moosies or jucies) or twisted yogurts for the whole class. You need to check with your teacher how many kids are in the class and order for all (plus one for the teacher).
They are collected at a time suiting the teacher, from 11.20 am or after lunch by the birthday child and helper and given out in class.
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Volunteering
The Canteen is fun and you can do just a couple of hours a month - or more if you wish! Some volunteers come in more often while others come in once a term or even once a year. We are very flexible.
A typical shift would be either between 9-11 am or 11-1 pm on your preferred weekday, every 4 weeks.
All are welcome … we have Mums and Dads, (pre-school siblings welcome Tuesdays) aunts and uncles and grandparents on our roster. Students love to see a loved face in the canteen. Any help is much appreciated!
Another fun way to give the Canteen a try is to talk to your Class Parent about signing up for a class volunteer day - this is when a few parents from the same class help out at the canteen on the same day - and earn their kids class an ice treat each as a reward! Win win!
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Canteen Recycle Club
1. Grab a Club Card from the canteen and get it stamped with each puchase of a drink can or carton.
2. Bring back your empty drink container and hand it in at the window.
3. Be rewarded with a free ice block or drink for every 10 stamps!!- All Cans & Boxes sold in the Canteen can be recycled.
- Containers must NOT be squashed or bent.
10 stamps = 1 Quelch ice block
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Giving Back
As part of our fabulous & varied Healthy Canteen menu, on Fridays we offer Nasi Goreng, Penne Bolognaise and Penne & Italian Tomato Sauce from Barzura.
When you purchase these dishes from our canteen, Barzura donate 100% from the sale of these dishes to Communities Assist to feed the 30 orphaned and vulnerable children at Rainbow Ridge in Tanzania.
This initiative has been successfully running at Coogee Public School since 2012 - and since then our contribution has reached just over $40,000!!
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Blog Updates
Check out previous canteen updates, menu changes and announcements.
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Reducing Environmental Impact
By choosing BioPak compostable packaging, we’ve made a big impact by reducing our waste! So far, our school has …
• Offset 1,124kg of carbon
• Avoided 339kg of plastic
• Supported rainforest rescue -
Canteen Upgrade
From inefficient old appliances to a power and space saving walk-in freezer, watch the video to see the transformation of our Canteen! Thank you to our wonderful Canteen Manager Alison for all the research, planning and entrepreneurial motivation! This upgrade received a contribution of $31,500 was made by the P&C in 2019-2020.
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“Thank you to all the parents who use our service, students who love our service, staff who use our service and volunteers who contribute their time to make our amazing canteen work so well.”
— Alison Kyling, Canteen Manager