Lunch and Snacks

Children will have lunch and two snacks during the school day. No food containing nuts is allowed at school. We have children with severe nut allergies in our school, and exposure can cause severe sickness and/or death. This is very important! Please check the ingredients of every item you send to school – even foods that “May contain nuts or nut products” are not permitted. As well, we do not allow WOW butter (a soy-based peanut butter alternative), as it is easily confused with peanut butter.

• Children are not permitted to share snacks at any time

• Food containers should be easy for children to open independently

• If possible please use reusable containers so that we can minimize the amount of garbage we produce

• Please make sure that all reusable items are labelled with your child’s name so that lunch/snack containers do not get lost.

• Please note that healthy food options are ideal for optimal learning. We are teaching children about taking care of their bodies and feeding their brains – please help us to get this message across by sending only healthy foods to school. Thank you!

• Please review with your child our lunch and snack routines. Students need to know that they must not eat all of their food during their first snack. We will do our best to monitor their food consumption, however, any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Please note that in Kindergarten NO DRINK POUCHES will be permitted. Kindergarten students are not able to handle inserting straws into these pouches appropriately and we have had a lot of spills and messes in the past. If your child brings a drink pouch to school, he or she will be asked to take it home. Water or 100% juice is encouraged as the drink of choice!