Health Promoting School
Since 2003, we have been a Health Promoting School – awarded full official status in May 2005. This is an initiative, which began in Europe in the 1980s, with the support of the World Health
Organisation. A Health Promoting School is one in which the Board of Management, staff, pupils and relevant agencies work together, in a planned way, to promote the health of everyone in the school community. This is reflected in our school ethos, healthy eating policy, extracurricular activities, commitment to recycling and awareness of improving our environment. The project is ongoing. We are greatly supported in this initiative, by the Health Service Executive and other statutary and non-statutary organisations.
Healthy Eating:
For the benefit of your children, in line with our status as a Health Promoting School and in accordance with the Revised
Curriculum for Primary Schools, we implement a healthy eating policy. Sweets, chocolate, crisps, cereal bars, fizzy drinks and general junk food, are not allowed. C.B.S. Primary lunchtime
supervision, allows a specific time for your child to sit and eat his lunch. We hope you will support us in our efforts to promote healthy eating, throughout the boys’ lives. Following consultation with Parent Representatives, we request that uneaten food is brought home. In this way, you can be more certain of what your child has actually consumed. For health and safety reasons, chewing gum and glass bottles are never allowed at school or on school related activities.
School Meals Programme:
Because of our inclusion in Deis, we can now offer School Meals to all our pupils, funded wholly by the Dept. of Social and Family affairs. Thus, there is no financial contribution from Parent(s) / Legal Guardian(s).
Since September ’08, our School Meals Programme has been provided by the Carambolakidz Company, who specialise in delivering daily, individually labelled, sealed lunch bags. There is currently choice of 6 types of bread/roll and 11 different fillings, or option of wraps, bagels or pasta, plus choice of 6 different fruits, along with juice or mineral water, for big lunch. There are also 12 healthy snack combinations, for small lunch. The lunches are based on nutritionally balanced, age appropriate menu recommendations. CarambolaKidz is green – all cartons/wrappers are 100% recyclable. Choices for school meals are distributed termly, that the boys can have a change. All pupils are required to bring an empty lunch box to school, to bring home lunch waste and that you can monitor what your son is actually consuming.
Feedback on this scheme has been hugely positive. We earnestly request your support in ensuring that the lunch bags are responsibly disposed of. If you require further information on the actual lunches, visit www.carambolakidz.com .
Organisation. A Health Promoting School is one in which the Board of Management, staff, pupils and relevant agencies work together, in a planned way, to promote the health of everyone in the school community. This is reflected in our school ethos, healthy eating policy, extracurricular activities, commitment to recycling and awareness of improving our environment. The project is ongoing. We are greatly supported in this initiative, by the Health Service Executive and other statutary and non-statutary organisations.
Healthy Eating:
For the benefit of your children, in line with our status as a Health Promoting School and in accordance with the Revised
Curriculum for Primary Schools, we implement a healthy eating policy. Sweets, chocolate, crisps, cereal bars, fizzy drinks and general junk food, are not allowed. C.B.S. Primary lunchtime
supervision, allows a specific time for your child to sit and eat his lunch. We hope you will support us in our efforts to promote healthy eating, throughout the boys’ lives. Following consultation with Parent Representatives, we request that uneaten food is brought home. In this way, you can be more certain of what your child has actually consumed. For health and safety reasons, chewing gum and glass bottles are never allowed at school or on school related activities.
School Meals Programme:
Because of our inclusion in Deis, we can now offer School Meals to all our pupils, funded wholly by the Dept. of Social and Family affairs. Thus, there is no financial contribution from Parent(s) / Legal Guardian(s).
Since September ’08, our School Meals Programme has been provided by the Carambolakidz Company, who specialise in delivering daily, individually labelled, sealed lunch bags. There is currently choice of 6 types of bread/roll and 11 different fillings, or option of wraps, bagels or pasta, plus choice of 6 different fruits, along with juice or mineral water, for big lunch. There are also 12 healthy snack combinations, for small lunch. The lunches are based on nutritionally balanced, age appropriate menu recommendations. CarambolaKidz is green – all cartons/wrappers are 100% recyclable. Choices for school meals are distributed termly, that the boys can have a change. All pupils are required to bring an empty lunch box to school, to bring home lunch waste and that you can monitor what your son is actually consuming.
Feedback on this scheme has been hugely positive. We earnestly request your support in ensuring that the lunch bags are responsibly disposed of. If you require further information on the actual lunches, visit www.carambolakidz.com .
