Drinks and Snacks in School
Healthy Snacks
Children are encouraged to bring ONE healthy snack for break time. This should ideally be provided in a small named container. Please do not send in huge portions or more than one healthy snack.
Examples of a healthy snack could be:
- Fruit (whole or sliced)
- Cheese portions
- Bread sticks
- Vegetable sticks, e.g. celery, carrot, pepper, cucumber. Some vegetables are naturally baton-shaped, which can save you time preparing, for example, sugar snap peas and baby corn.
- Rice or corn cakes
Please find some ideas for healthy snacks here.
Please do not provide the following as snacks in school:
- Chocolate
- Sweets
- Crisps
- Cereal bars (Many are high in sugar/fat)
- Pastries
If staff notice unhealthy snacks, they will send a quick friendly message to you as parents/carers, so that you can send something healthy the next day.
Water Bottles In School
To keep well hydrated, the children are also asked to bring a bottle of still drinking water each day. This bottle is kept/used in class. It must be still water and no other drinks are allowed.
There are lots of good reasons for this, not least because:
- Water is the healthiest option for hydration.
- Water makes the least mess if spilled (water bottles are kept in class/on desks and you would be amazed how often they leak/get dropped).
- Sparkling water is not allowed in class due to the risk of carbonated water "spraying" all over class and because, unfortunately, some schools have experience of allowing carbonated water and have found that lemonade, 7Up and Sprite have been swapped by some families - believe it or not!
Children are encouraged to drink from their class water bottle whenever they are thirsty throughout the day.