School Dinner Ladies

cabriolean

Things confiscated include a fizzy drink (it was made with one of those fizzy flavoured vitamin pills and a prescribed pill, think the mentos and diet coke trick, but with water and not going everywhere), my little sister has special needs and was ill (non-contagious and fairly long-lasting), she really doesn't like taking pills, pretty much the only way you're getting medicine that isn't a strawberry-flavoured liquid in her is by trickery or by making it more appealing.
We had emailed for and received permission beforehand, but nope.
Also crisps, mainly sunbites (these are actually pretty healthy) they contain wholegrain and vitamins.
Today's special is soup with a wholegrain roll, a bottle of water and a fruit pot for dessert. However you can't pre-order and also on offer is a burger with chips and onion rings, a can of coke/tango etc. and chocolate cake for dessert......I think her normal lunchbox of sunbites, wholegrain sandwich, apple/orange, banana, water/milk and proper (low fat, low sugar, lots of vitamins/grains) cereal bar is much better, because of the two lunch deals offered at the same price, I know exactly which one she would have gone for......

aileth

pigpen wrote: »

ALL the children are 'allowed' to go home for lunch.. they are your children still between 9am and 3pm and you can take them home for lunch if you wish.. I'd like to see someone tell me I couldn't bring my children home for lunch.

When I was at school some 10 or so years ago now, only Year 10 and 11 could go home for lunch AND they had to live within 1 mile of the school. Others couldn't go home even if parents picked them up. They had dinner ladies guarding all the exists and there was actual scheming and plans being made for distractions to let others sneak out, or others simply ran past them. They relaxed it in the latter years surprisingly.

Person_one

balletshoes wrote: »

Our primary school allows children to go home for lunch ~ at age 4 one of my daughters classmates went home for lunch every day. i personally dont think it helped her settle at school because all the other kids stayed for lunch at school.

I was going to say something similar.

A few kids went home for lunch at my primary school, but what they (possibly) gained in nutrition they lost in socialisation and fun, as lunchtime was also the longest 'playing out' session of the day and they missed out on it every single time for seven years.

fluffnutter

pigpen wrote: »

Yes but if you dislike children it kind of figures you wouldn't work in a school there tend to be a few children there! I don't like dogs so wouldn't work for RSPCA or be a vet..

That's true! Perhaps they're working on the same principle that doctors' receptionists use - they hate ill people

PolishBigSpender

couponqueen123 wrote: »

i could take dd home if i wished for lunch but the school try to discourage this as it dosnt look good

Why would the school care if the child goes home or not?

SuzieSue

It's funny that so many people are mentioning crisps as being unhealthy. When I was in secondary school in the late 70s the school decided to start a tuck shop at break times. The parents were asked what kind of food should be sold in the tuck shop and they all said that there should definitely not be any sweets but only crisps. At that time crisps were thought of as a healthy alternative to sweets. It was only in the 80s that people started focussing on how unhealthy fat was. I am not sure what they do now, but I doubt that they still sell crisps.

valk_scot

jellyhead wrote: »

It's not allowed. Does anyone go to a primary school where children are allowed to go home for lunch?

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Ours does. You have to go and pick them up though.

(Which is odd if your kids have been walking to and from school fram age seven, but the difference is that there are 300 other kids walking at start and end of school and only a handful at lunchtimes so they're seen as more vunerable.)

shirlgirl2004

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Generally speaking, because of the culture (we don't have lunch, rather breakfast first thing in the morning, a "second breakfast" that would be similar to your packed lunches and then dinner eaten at home) - it's impossible to compare with hot food offerings as not every school will even have the facility to offer it.

But no-one in schools would care about what children bring to school to eat. One important cultural difference could be that fresh fruit and vegetables are much cheaper to buy than processed rubbish, however - and there isn't anywhere near the same obesity problem.

The stats I found suggest very little difference with UK at 22.7% and Poland at 18% of adult population obese.

merlin1

My son is in an academy, he's now 14. He goes to the same secondary school I went to, when I was there (my younger brother too) it was a secondary school with around 900 pupils but changed to a GM Technology college. And then when to academy status - now it has just over 2000 pupils.

Last summer they had a 35 million pound rebuild of the the main school building which housed the hall/canteen. in its place were a number of catering wagons. now the build is finished, they have implemented a thumbprint/parentpay system.

The food, imo is worse than when i was there! I can see exactly what he orders - and its pizzas, paninis, etc. He was given the option of a sit down meal - no time. but even his year rep (teacher) states there are far too many children to feed within the time given. its not easy but I make sure to balance it with dinner at home at night. well I try my best

jellyhead

valk_scot wrote: »

Ours does. You have to go and pick them up though.

(Which is odd if your kids have been walking to and from school fram age seven, but the difference is that there are 300 other kids walking at start and end of school and only a handful at lunchtimes so they're seen as more vunerable.)

Ours aren't allowed to walk to school alone at age 7. My eldest is now in 6th form, and when he was at that school they allowed kids to walk home alone from year 3 onwards (year 3 is age 7-8 if anyone's wondering) but nowadays the teachers bring all children into the playground and they have to be collected by an adult. I suppose they could walk to school alone and school would be none the wiser.