Lunchbox raffle prizes!

We have been really pleased to see a change in the type and amount of
foods the children are having in their lunchboxes. There have been a
number of children who have already won raffle tickets for having a
healthy lunch and some who have won sports prizes in our weekly draw.

We will continue with the raffle and have been including the children
who have a school lunch and choose to eat the healthy foods for the
focus of the fortnight.

WEEKS 2 and 3:
During the next two weeks, your class teacher will be looking to see
if you have included meat, fish or alternatives such as eggs, beans
and pulses in your lunch box (please see the eat well plate and ideas
below).

How can I get

St Paul’s First School
Healthy Lunchbox
a raffle ticket? check.

Healthy
You get a raffle
Each week you
ticket if:
have a chance to
show your class

Lunchbox
*Your teacher teacher what a
sees that you healthy lunchbox
have a healthy you have.

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*You eat the
weekly food
group as part of
your school meal.

The foods we have been focusing on are one of the four main food
sections from the ‘Eat Well Plate’:
1 – Bread, pasta, bread sticks, crackers, potatoes.
2 – Fruit and Vegetables.
3 – Meat, fish and alternatives.
4 – Dairy
5 – Healthy Snacks
On a random day per week the teachers will stop lessons 10 mins before
lunch and THOSE CHILDREN WHO WANT TO PARTICIPATE show the
contents of their lunchbox. The teacher checks that it contains the
focus food for that week and then gives the successful children a
raffle ticket.

Once a fortnight we have a raffle with non-food items as prizes.

This carries on until all four focus areas have been covered. In the 5th
week we check for a complete healthy lunchbox.

SCHOOL MEALS: On the same random day, any child who eats the same
focus food area from their school meal also gets a raffle ticket.

School guidelines for a healthy lunchbox.

Crisps, cakes, biscuits and chocolate
bars
As part of a balanced meal we allow
one treat. This must be either 1
biscuit/ cake/ chocolate bar OR 1
packet of crisps per day in your
healthy lunchbox.
Drinks.
It is really important that you drink
lots of water to keep you healthy.
At St Paul’s we provide water for you
at lunchtime but if you would like to
bring your own drink you can bring:
Plain water, juice, flavoured water,
still, sparkling or with lemon/lime slices
in.
 Here are some ideas for how to include meat, fish or alternatives.
Try all sorts of sandwich types: Whole or sliced boiled eggs as a
ham, chicken, beef, egg. snack.
Salads with squares of ham, Couscous is very quick and easy to
chicken or beef, slices of egg, tuna cook and also makes very good cold
fish. Mix it up with vegetables, salad with added meat, egg or fish.
chopped fruit, raisins etc.
Lentil and vegetable potato salads. Cold pizza slices with ham, chicken
or beef can be a great addition to
a lunchbox. Even better if they
are homemade pizza slices so you
can control the amount of fat and
salt.
Useful websites.
These website have some great ideas for healthy lunchboxes.
http://www.food.gov.uk
www.nhs.uk/change4life
Drinks:
 Flavoured water
 Juice
 Plain still/sparkling water
 Water with either lemon or lime slices