Lunchboxes

Environmentally Friendly Lunch Boxes: Litter-Free Lunch Programme

In Primary School we actively promote reducing the amount of waste we produce by  recycling wherever we can. We aim for children to have litter-free lunches and have some helpful hints for you as parents to support this endeavour:

• Use refillable drink containers rather than popper bottles.
• Avoid plastic wrap and aluminium foil.
• Choose reusable airtight lunchboxes that do not require wrapping to keep food   fresh.
• Select sandwich fillers that do not separate easily or use a tightly-fitting lunchbox.
• Use reusable packaging such as zip lock bags that are taken home each night to be washed and reused.
• Say ‘no’ to pre-packaged goods. Buy foods in bulk and divide snack quantities using reusable containers.

Lunch Orders

The GSG Canteen provides a variety of fresh and delicious lunches and morning recess snacks which can be ordered online via Flexischools. To set up an account, you will need to nominate your child's classroom. This information is made available at the start of each school year.

For information about recess and lunch orders through Flexischools, please visit here. 

Please ensure that your child brings a healthy and nutritious lunch and morning recess snack. Most children are ravenous at morning recess so try to ensure they are adequately supplied.  Younger children will often eat all their lunch at morning recess. It is helpful to package the morning snack and lunch separately in the lunch box to avoid confusion. In the event that your child comes to school without lunch or forgets to place his or her lunch order, the Canteen will endeavour to assist. A lunch order envelope will be sent home requesting payment. Parents/Guardians will receive an email with details of the food provided. The cost f these items are added to the family's school account.

Children are required to sit for a minimum of 15 minutes to eat and digest lunch. Younger students’ lunch boxes will be checked to ensure that most of their lunch has been eaten.

Great Southern Grammar promotes a healthy eating policy and parents are requested to restrict sweet and/or fatty snack foods in their children’s lunches. Carbonated soft drinks are not permitted at school.

Nut Minimisation Policy

Some children have a severe life-threatening allergy (Anaphylaxis) to nuts. Most life-threatening reactions occur when nuts are eaten.  Serious reactions can also occur from skin contact, eye contact and inhalation of nut particles.  Young children eat with their whole bodies. They tend to wipe their food on clothing, equipment and toys.  Please help us provide a safe environment and prevent a tragedy occurring by adhering to our Nut Minimisation Policy, available via MyGSG:

• No peanuts or tree nuts
• No nut spreads such as peanut butter, Nutella, hazelnut spreads, cashew butters or ‘Nuts about Chocolate’
• No products containing nuts in their ingredient lists, such as satay sauce, nougat and certain muesli bars, cakes and biscuits
• No nut oils such as peanut oil

Foods which ‘may contain traces of nuts’ should be safe for non-allergic children to eat at school. They cannot be eaten by the allergic child. To reduce the risk, children are not to share their food.

Be aware of the ingredients used in birthday cakes. Peanuts and almond flakes are often 

used as toppings, and marzipan contains nuts.  If your child is allergic to nuts, please provide a treat to be kept at school, either in the cupboard or in the deep freeze, for birthday celebrations.