Miller Avenue School


 Lunches in schools 2023 


Proposal for 2023 with lunch and lunch boxes at school. Due to becoming an enviroschool we are wanting to reduce waste as in rubbish and food.

There will be no lunch brought to school from home as everything is fully provided, lunch will be served at 11am and a snack break at 1pm. This will ensure children will be content during class as lunch and snacks evenly spread out.

Lunches and snacks will be packaged in polystyrene boxes for each class and portioned for Junior and Senior sizes. These will be delivered from the hall each day and will be labeled for classrooms, all classes will receive lunch/snacks for the total class roll, there will be spares for those that are absent ( we encourage teachers to eat a lunch to encourage their class).

The Children will eat outside with their class or in class on a plastic mat depending on weather outside (Teacher to supervise ).  Each class will be provided suitable bins for their waste.  

With the spare lunches they will be taken to the spare fridge. A Learning assistant will be allocated a time to collect spares at the end of the day. A message will be announced over the loudspeaker each day at 2.50pm, and can be collected from the office.


LUNCHTIME:              

  • Lunch time will be held at 11am - all students will be eating outside their rooms, during the fine weather. Additional mats will be purchased (one large mat & picnic table per class)

  • Lunch eating will be 10 minutes, and every student is to be seated at this time (regardless of them eating or not).

  • One teacher will supervise between two classes, rosters provided.

  • All lunches will be brought to each classroom (by a kitchen assistant) and placed on a table outside the class in a polystyrene box.

  • Each teacher is to ensure that the lunches are given out to each student.

  • Spare lunches can be utilised at the discretion of the teacher. We encourage teachers to participate in the lunch eating (if there are spares) and encourage all students to ‘give it a try’, “it’s so yummy!”

  • When the students are finished eating, they are to place their food scraps into the correct bin and their utensil (if they used one) into the correct container.

  • Polystyrene boxes must be returned to the hall kitchen by 1.30pm. 

  • When the bell rings, the students may go and play.


AFTERNOON BREAK:

  • Afternoon Break will be held at 1pm - all students will be eating outside their rooms, during the fine weather. 

  • The afternoon snack will be 5 minutes, and every student is to be seated at this time.  

  • Afternoon snacks will be provided in paper bags along with fruit.  If the fruit needs to be cut up, this will be provided on a tray, also to be returned (empty) to the hall kitchen by 1.30pm.

  • All packaging (rubbish) is to be placed in the correct bin. If a student wishes to eat their food at a later time, they still must sit and their snack can be either placed into their bag or the teacher can store it in a container for them.

  • If there are packaged snacks that are not being eaten, these must be returned to the kitchen in the polystyrene box at the end of the break - 1.30pm. 

  • When the students are finished eating their snack, they are to place any food scraps into the scrap bin and the class monitor is to go to the hall kitchen and place the food scraps into the larger bin, then rinse out their food scrap bin and return it to the classroom.  

  • When the bell rings, the students may go and play.

Our AMAZING LiS (lunches in schools) staff who prepare our food are:


- Amber Millen: Kitchen Manager

-Michelle Lawrie: Kitchen Assistant