Snacks

HeadStart provides milk for all pupils during their morning break and a healthy snack during afternoon break. We would like to encourage parents to only send their children to school with healthy snack options. Snacks are quite often shared between friends and we don’t want to have pupils eating snacks at school that they aren’t allowed to eat from their own parents. Therefore, if a pupil brings unhealthy snacks, for example, candy, soda pops, chips/crisps or other such snacks with high sugar content to school the teacher will confiscate this.

Lunch

We believe that a healthy balanced diet is the foundation of a successful academic life. We therefore strive to serve natural, low-sugar-and-salt meals with the freshest possible local produce. Pupils are served milk in the morning break, lunch at midday followed by a healthy mid-afternoon snack. School lunches are compulsory for all pupils, unless there are special dietary requirements for medical, religious or cultural reasons that the school cannot provide. In such cases permission to bring their own lunches to school must be sought from the Head of School (please send a letter and any supporting documentation i.e. medical certificate). When you register your child please specify their dietary requirements. Your child’s homeroom teacher will be overseeing lunch and can keep an eye on these requirements if necessary. A copy of the school’s lunch menu is available below. The lunch buffet will always include a Western, Asian and a vegetarian option as well as soup, salads and fruit.

Years 1 and 2 are served and supervised by their teachers at lunchtimes. Years 3 to 6 serve themselves from the buffet. All teaching staff members eat with the children. This provides opportunities to discuss what contributes to a healthy diet.

School Coffee Shop

The coffee shop is open to parents until 9.30 am and after 2.30 pm. The coffee shop has a selection of snacks available to Secondary students during the school day and available to all students after school hours. The student snack section includes healthy options made by our kitchen staff as well as other snack options which students can choose from. The coffee shop uses a cashless card system. Parents can choose to allow their child to access the Coffee Shop by allowing them to have their access card which can be topped up with money in the school shop.

The Food Service Committee

The Food Committee at HeadStart is a group of people who represent HeadStart’s community: pupils, teachers, parents and professionals. They meet once at the end of each school term to discuss any important questions, suggestions or complaints. They make recommendations together with the Head Chef, about the lunch menu and quality of food service, as well as make suggestions to the Senior Management Team. To contact the Food Service Committee, you can email [email protected]

Foundation Menu