Lunch

Lunch is part of the afternoon session, if your child has not stayed for lunch before, we have put together the following information to give you a few ideas:   

• The children learn about healthy food and teeth, and we regularly talk to the children about making healthy choices. In order to support children to develop a healthy relationship with food, they can eat their lunch in any order that they want and eat how much they want or need.
• Anything that is not eaten will be left in their lunchbox so you will be able to see what your child has had.
• We encourage parents to provide a healthy balanced lunch for their child.

Packed lunch contents might include:

• Sandwiches, crackers, pasta, rice or noodles (we are not able to heat food for children’s lunch).
• Fruit (e.g. strawberries, blueberries or grapes) and vegetables (e.g. carrot sticks, cucumber, tomatoes).
• Yoghurts, cheese, sausages, hummus.
• All grapes, tomatoes and sausages should be sliced long ways to reduce the risk of choking.
• Lunch boxes with lots of treats in, may result in a child only choosing to eat the cake, crisps and biscuits.

Packed lunches MUST NOT contain:

• Fizzy drinks or cans.
• Sweets inc. chocolate bars.
• NUTS of any kind including Peanut butter, Chocolate/hazelnut spread as a sandwich filling (Allergy risk).

Additional info:

• Please can you put an ice pack in the lunch bag to keep food cool.

• Please make sure that your child’s name is clearly marked on their lunch box and drink bottle. Water will be available.

For many of the children, eating lunch at pre-school is the first time they have eaten away from parents/carers, we try to make it as trouble free as possible and an enjoyable experience for the children.

Thank you