Lunches

Nutrition Break

(Snack & Lunch)

Students eat twice a day for approximately 20 minutes each break.

Packing lunches is a big and important daily task. Ensuring your child gets a variety of healthy, nutritional, and yummy foods that they will eat is not easy. We encourage students to start with healthy food options from their lunch to help fill their tummy, give them energy, and fuel their brain.

Finger Foods

We notice students like to be able to eat a variety of things during eating time. Offering a variety of items in smaller sized pieces will allow your child the freedom to pick and choose.

Warm lunch items

If your child enjoys warm items, consider a thermos.

Cold lunch items

Consider investing in some thin ice packs to help keep cold items like yogurt, cheese, or milk cold.

Easy to Open/Close Portions

To save your child waiting for adult help to open packages, consider buying bulk and portioning into smaller containers that can do up again. This is helpful because if your child doesn't finish their yogurt or apple sauce etc. in one eating time they can close it and return to it.

If that's not possible and the snack isn't messy, pre-cut the wrapper to help your child open it.

Boomerang Lunch

The City of Barrie has a much more thorough recycling and organics program than we do at school.

We now have blue bin item recycling at school (new this year). Students will be able to rinse and recycle items like yogurt containers.

Students will bring home organic and garbage items.

We recommend sending a large empty tupperware container or ziplock bag for any garbage or organic items your child will be bringing home that didn't already come in a container.

Practice, Practice, Practice!

Opening and closing containers can be tricky and takes a lot of fine motor control, strength, and practice! Give your child a variety of containers to practice with.

Work on using the containers you're planning to use in their lunch and practice getting them to fit in and out of their lunch bag. It can be a tricky puzzle to get everything back inside the lunch bag when they pull every container out to see what's for lunch.

No Nuts Please

A friendly reminder when thinking about lunch and snack items - our school strives to be a nut-free environment.

We have students (and staff) with life threatening nut allergies.

Please avoid all nut products.

Water Bottles

Students are encouraged to bring a refillable water bottle to school.

Please look for water bottles that do not have an open spout. The open spouts are a problem because they often lead to major water leaks inside student bags and on the floor if the lid isn’t on properly or the water bottle gets dropped on the floor and it pops open.

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