Scoil Chaitríona Healthy Eating Policy
As part of the Social, personal, Health, Education (S.P.H.E.) Programme we encourage the children to become more aware of the need for healthy food in their lunch boxes. In addition, the Physical Education programme supports the physical development and fitness of the children. The Science curriculum also looks at the development of the body and deepens the child’s understanding of how the body grows and develops.
Aims of this policy:
In our school the children eat twice a day, before going out to play. To ensure good concentration it is important for children to drink plenty of water, so please encourage your child to bring water to drink. As we are a Green School we would also ask that your child brings a reusable beaker to school each day.
Healthy Lunch Guidelines:
Children with special dietary needs: Parents must inform the school if their child has special dietary requirements due to health or cultural reasons.
Green School:
As a Green School, to reduce litter and protect our school environment please note that all uneaten food, tin foil, wrappings, containers and cartons must be taken home in lunchboxes.
As part of the Social, personal, Health, Education (S.P.H.E.) Programme we encourage the children to become more aware of the need for healthy food in their lunch boxes. In addition, the Physical Education programme supports the physical development and fitness of the children. The Science curriculum also looks at the development of the body and deepens the child’s understanding of how the body grows and develops.
Aims of this policy:
- To promote the personal development and well being of the child.
- To promote the health of the child and provide a foundation for healthy living in all its aspects.
- To enable the child to appreciate the importance of good nutrition for growing and developing and staying healthy.
- To enable the child to accept some responsibility for making wise food choices and adopting a healthy, balanced diet.
In our school the children eat twice a day, before going out to play. To ensure good concentration it is important for children to drink plenty of water, so please encourage your child to bring water to drink. As we are a Green School we would also ask that your child brings a reusable beaker to school each day.
Healthy Lunch Guidelines:
- Encourage wholemeal or wholegrain varieties of bread etc.
- Use butter or spreads sparingly.
- Include water in a reusable beaker as a drink.
- Include salad vegetables in sandwiches and salad boxes.
- Include at least one piece of fruit at lunch.
- Encourage that milk, cheese or yoghurt is included as part of lunch.
- Encourage that meat, chicken, fish or egg is included as part of the contents of the lunchbox.
- Bread, Rolls, Pitta Breads, Wraps, Crackers, Pasta, Rice.
- Ham, Chicken, Turkey, Hardboiled Eggs, Fish, Peanut Butter.
- Vegetable Salad (lettuce, cucumber, sweetcorn, tomato), Vegetable Sticks (carrot, celery, peppers)
- Fresh Fruit (apples, mandarins, peaches, pears, plums, bananas, kiwis, oranges)
- Dried Fruit (raisins, sultanas, apricots, figs)
- Pizza, Quiche, Omelette
- Cheese, Yoghurt, Fromage Frais, Plain Popcorn
- Water or Milk
- Chocolate Products
- Fruit Winders, Lollipops
- Cereal/ Energy bars
- Sweets
- Crisps
- Any snack known to be high in sugar, saturated fat, salt, additives and preservatives.
- Fizzy Drinks.
Children with special dietary needs: Parents must inform the school if their child has special dietary requirements due to health or cultural reasons.
Green School:
As a Green School, to reduce litter and protect our school environment please note that all uneaten food, tin foil, wrappings, containers and cartons must be taken home in lunchboxes.