Lunchroom & Snack Routines / Le déjeuner et collation

Nutrition program

Davisville JPS provides students with a healthy morning snack in accordance of our nutrition program. Parents are encouraged to support the Davisville Nutrition Program if possible, as all st udents receive a daily morning snack. We are always looking for volunteers to help out with this program even one day per week.

lunchroom and snack routines

All Grade 1-6 students who remain at school at lunchtime will be having lunch in the Gymnasium and are not permitted to leave the school premises unless they are going home. If your child is going home for lunch, please send written permission to your child's classroom techer. Students will need to sign out at the office upon leaving and sign back in upon their return. For safety and school climate reasons, students will not be permitted to visit neighbouring restaurants and/or stores even with parent/guardian permission. Kindergarten students eat in their classrooms.

Children with allergies must only eat food which they have brought in from home unless it is packaged, clearly labeled, and approved by parents. Children should place food on napkin or paper rather than in direct contact with desk.
Children must not trade or share food (or containers or utensils).
All children are encouraged to wash or sanitize hands before and after eating.
As an EcoSchool, we encourage Boomerang Lunches. This means tha tall items not consumed (containers, wrappers, cutlery, etc.) will be returned home each day (like a boomerang!)

Dropping off lunches (or other forgotten items)

At Davisville JPS, we encourage our students to become responsible and expect them to remember to bring everything they need with them to school each morning (e.g., lunch, snack, water bottle, extra clothes, instruments etc.). However, only in emergencies should parents deliver a forgotten item. Please bring the item with your child’s name written on it and leave it on the “Emergency Drop Off” table placed inside the front entry doors (Davisville Ave.). Do not bring your child’s forgotten item to his/her classroom. We strive to minimize interruptions to instructional time and encourage your child to become responsible. It is important to develop responsibility and organizational skills in all students.

allergy policy

We have several students who have life-threatening allergies to peanuts and nuts. In the interest of providing a safe environment for these children, we ask for the support of parents/caregivers and students to make our school a ‘peanut and nut sensitive environment’. This means that each child entering the school is asked to bring snacks and lunches free of peanuts and nuts. We request that those students who have consumed peanut butter/other forms of nuts before arriving at school wash their hands and face before entering the school premises. (Note: even a small ‘smear’ of peanut butter on your child’s body could potentially have a harmful effect on a child with a life-threatening peanut allergy.) **It is for this reason we do not have food as part of class celebrations.

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