Parent Workshop – March 2025 with Jane Smith
Smart Choices
at DCSL: Eat a Rainbow
Shape of Today
10.30 Kitchen Tour
11am Workshop
11.45am Lunch
Quadra Facts
800+ meals daily (90% of students and staff)
Almost all cooked/baked on the premises
Start at 7am and finish at 5pm
Snacks and packed lunches too
Monthly unannounced gov checks - A Grade
Feedback from CLT, Parent Reps and Student Leadership
What I choose at lunch affects my health and wellbeing
1950s
Proteins for your muscles and for growing
Carbohydrates or carbs for energy and fibre
What’s in your fruit and veggies?
Can you spot the Rainbow lunch in the next 2 slides? What food choices could improve the lunch?
Eat a Rainbow!
Meat-free Monday - ‘plant-based’
Student driven initiative
Protein from dairy products, beans, lentils, tofu and eggs
Introduced in 2019
Morning snack: 9.20-10.20am
Lunch:
● DUCKS and Y3: 11.40-12.10* ● Y4-6: 12.10-12.40pm* ● Seniors from 12.40pm
*”extra time” as needed
Lunch Routines
See the published menu each month
Lunchtime Manners
Being Principled and Responsible
AnimalFood
Fertiliserto help plants grow
Instagram: dcsl.meals
