Break & Lunch Time

As a Healthy School, we encourage children to make healthy choices and enjoy active lifestyles, ensuring they develop as healthy, confident individuals.

Break Time Arrangements

Children in Nursery to Year 3 have access to outdoor spaces throughout the school day. In addition, school has a large playground in the main school which is used by all the children at break time. Play times are important to develop the children’s social skills, fitness and co-ordination. Playground markings and play equipment for each year group are available each day. The PTA has purchased an outdoor picnic tables, benches and play equipment to enhance children’s well-being. Please ensure that your child has a coast so they can access the outdoors in all weather conditions.

During the good weather children use the field to play on. The school grounds are enclosed and there is no public right of way through them. The children are well supervised when on the playground or the field; their safety and well-being is of paramount importance.

Drinks, Snacks & Free Milk

As a Healthy School, we encourage all children to bring a healthy snack into school for break times. Please ensure your child has chopped up fruit, salad or vegetables for their snack (no cereal bars/chocolate/crisps). Please ensure any grapes are sliced in half (length ways) to prevent choking.

Nursery children have a break during the morning and afternoon sessions where they will sit together and enjoy a fruit snack provided by Nursery.

Nursery to Year 2 children are also encouraged to drink milk at snack time. Every child is provided with a free bottle of milk by the Welsh Government. We also encourage children to drink from their water bottles before and after snack time.

Lunch Time Arrangements

At lunch time children are cared for by a team of teaching assistants who encourage all children to eat their meals, interact with each other and ensure sensible behaviour in the hall and outside. The Reception to Year 2 children have lunch at 12.00pm. The Year 3 to Year 6 children have lunch at 12.20pm and start the afternoon session at 1.15pm.

School meals are cooked on site using our kitchen facilities which are managed by Chartwells. All children are entitled to a free school meal funded by Welsh Government. All meals must be booked in advance via Parent Pay, a secure online booking system.

If your would prefer to provide your child with a packed lunch, we would encourage you to provide a healthy, balanced and nutritious lunch box. NO fizzy drinks are allowed in lunch boxes – children are encouraged to have water or milk with their lunch. We do not have fridges for lunch boxes in school. Children leave the lunch boxes on shelves by their pegs in cool corridors of the school. Children are awarded stickers if they are seen to have made healthy choices in their lunch boxes. Lunch boxes must go home daily to be washed and returned. Our school ECO council encourage wrapper less lunch boxes to help save the environment. Any food containing nuts is not permitted due to children with nut allergies.

Food Allergies

Please inform the school office if your child develops a food allergy, or has any other dietary requirements. If your child has a dietary requirement and would like to have school meals, you will be required to provide Chartwells with a medical note.

Water Bottles

We encourage every child to bring in a reusable water bottle to school that they can keep in our water bottle holders and drink throughout the day. We require all children to take their water bottle home DAILY to be washed and returned. The water bottles must ONLY contain water – no squash, fruit juice or fizzy drinks allowed. The water bottle must be clearly labelled with your child’s name.

Ensuring Hygiene and Safety at Break Time and Lunch Time

Throughout the school day and including Break Time and Lunch Time we ensure that consistent hygiene and safety messages are given to children at home and in school. We inform parents of our procedures for ensuring health, well-being and hygiene within school and encourage parents to reinforce these at home.

Hand – Washing Procedures in school

We encourage children to wash their hands after using the toilet, after sneezing or coughing, after playing outside, after sports and before eating. We encourage the children to wash their hands for at least 15 seconds. All children are taught the correct way to wash their hands effectively in school as part of the curriculum.