Foundation to Year 2 News
Windsor PS staff strongly encourage students to make positive, informed, and healthy food choices. School age is the perfect time for children to learn about healthy food, bodies, and activity to help them build healthy attitudes, preferences and behaviours that will carry throughout their growing years.
Students should eat a variety of foods every day to be healthy and perform well at school. Ideal school lunches should include at least one item from each food group (see Pick & Mix chart below) and include water.
Pick and mix one tasty option from each of the five core food groups to create a healthy lunchbox every day:
- Fruit (e.g. fresh, frozen, pureed and canned in natural juice)
- Vegetables, legumes and beans
- Milk, yoghurt, cheese and alternatives
- Lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds, and legumes/beans
- Grain (cereal) foods
- Plain water
We ask that students do not have fruit drinks, other sweet drinks, or lollies (including fruit ropes) regularly at school. They are high in energy but low in nutritional value and can make it harder for students to concentrate in the classroom.
Healthy Lunchboxes Recipe Book link:
Please see Kathrine if you would like a printed copy of the recipe book.