TAPS uses the balanced day plan, with two 40 minute nutrition breaks at 11:15 and 1:35. Enough food needs to be sent for two breaks. Food not consumed is put away for the next break, as no food is permitted outside. Students are not permitted to leave the school grounds unless special arrangements have been made with the principal.
Students take their breaks for the first 20 minutes in their classroom and then go outside. Early Years to Grade 3 will have student monitors. Each school wing will have a teacher on duty responsible for 5 to 6 classroomsOur nutritional breaks fall from 11:15-11:55 AM and 1:35-2:15 PM.

Classroom Lunch Rules for students and monitors

1. Students are to be seated in the classroom during lunch. If noise levels, clean-up and/or lunch classroom behaviour are a concern, the homeroom teacher or the teacher on duty may require students to remain in their assigned desks.
2. Students should finish their lunch and remain in their desks. Four minutes before recess, they may throw out their lunch, then get their coats and line up. Monitors may decide to have a helper bring the garbage can around to collect the garbage. Classroom garbages should be dumped into hall garbages at the end of lunch. 3. Students remain in class until the bell.
4. Students are to use the washrooms at the bell, and may only leave the room with the teacher on duty’s permission prior to the bell.
5. Students are not to share or trade food or drinks. If students forget their lunch, they may come to the office to phone home or get something to eat.
6. Students are allowed to talk quietly, but not to shout or yell.
7. Students are not allowed to throw ANYTHING.
8. Students cannot discipline students in the classroom. If there is ANY problem, please say, “Please go out into the hall.” Let the teacher on duty talk to the student and deal with the problem. If the student will not listen, one monitor should go and get the teacher on duty.
9. In any emergency, one monitor stays in the classroom and buzzes the office and one monitor goes into the hall to get the hall teacher on duty.
10. No food goes outside (put food back in lunch bags at the bell) and no students remain in the classroom unless supervised by a teacher. All food is put away. No food or drink should be left on the desk or floor, and any messes need to be cleaned up.

SPECIAL LUNCH DAYS

Monthly food plans for pizza will be sent home. This helps reduce the amount of class time spent on collecting money. On occasion, there are other special food days for such items as hotdogs or subs – and notices about these days will be sent home at that time. Watch the Newsletter for any changes in the menu or dates.