Meghan Carroll – Deputy Head of Primary

What’s in your lunch box?

How do you come up with creative and healthy lunch options that your child will enjoy each day?
How do you ensure you are providing your child with a healthy, colourful and energy filled lunch box items?
How do you pack lunch for a picky eater?
How can you stay up to date with the latest lunch box ideas and connect with other parents/carers to ask questions and share solutions?

If you have wondered about the answers to any of these questions and want to know more about packing a healthy lunch for your child, then please read on! We hope that these tips and resources below will give you some practical ideas about what to put in your child’s school lunch box each day. 

The Cancer Council NSW is excited to share a new look Healthy Lunch Box website. The website has been improved with new features and functions based on what health professionals and parents wanted on the website. Developed by dieticians, healthylunchbox.com.au is a one-stop shop for everything families need to know about packing a healthy lunch box. 

 Here’s what you will find on the website:

• An interactive lunch box builder that helps parents and kids plan and pack a healthy lunch with foods they like. 
• Lots of quick and easy recipes and snack ideas.
• The ability to filter recipes based on diets, easy to freeze and prep time.
• Regular healthy eating blogs including articles about how to reboot the lunch box and what to look for when food shopping.
• The Healthy Lunch Box e-newsletter, which schools, parents and organisations can sign up to for ideas, updates and recipes. 

100 Days of Kindergarten

On Wednesday, the Kindergarten classes celebrated the 100th day of school. It was a fun-filled day focused on the theme of 100. The children really enjoyed the experience as it is a special milestone in their ‘big school’ lives. Thank you to Talia Hynek, Annabelle Turrall, the Kindy support team and the Kindy Hebrew teachers for helping to organise this event. 

Students preparing for Project Heritage by reading and writing about different Holocaust-related books

Project Heritage begins

This week the Year 6 students met their historians on Zoom. Students and mentors will meet three times over the next few weeks to learn about their Historian’s life, experiences and

much much more. This unique learning opportunity provides students with a connection to the past and to the community. We look forward to seeing the final student presentations towards the end of Term 3. Thank you to all Historians and Mentors for their commitment and contributions to this valuable part of Year 6.