Our new canteen menu is up and running. Our canteen supervisor has been appointed and we welcome Helynna Dover-Ong to our school community in this role. Helynna is implementing the NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy which all NSW public schools with a canteen are required to implement and Independent and Catholic Schools are encouraged to participate in.

The Strategy supports a culture of healthy eating in schools by:

• Promoting and increasing student access to healthier foods and drinks.
• Decreasing student access to less healthy foods and drinks.
• Supporting water as the drink of choice.
• Making a healthy choice an easy choice.

A healthy school canteen menu needs to comprise at least 3/4 (75%) Everyday foods and drinks and no more than 1/4 (25%) Occasional foods and drinks. 

We thank Helynna for her work in this area. We will have adjustments and changes to the menu as the weeks go by, but the priority will continue to be healthy choices to promote a healthy lifestyle and brain.

Volunteers are still needed to help Helynna in the canteen as she is only paid for a 3 hour shift each week, and as such helpers on a Friday would be most welcome and appreciated. Please let us know here at school if you can volunteer in this area and complete the registration process as per link in the newsletter.

Lunches are ordered through the new Flexi-schools app and must be ordered by 9am Wednesday morning.

To re-launch the canteen, we are running a "Name the Canteen" competition. See the flyer below on how to enter.