Figure 1.--Boys at day schools commonly bring their lunches, but some have dining rooms with cooked lunches. You can tell this is a day school because the boys are wearing their blazers. |
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Most schools have lunch about 1:00 pm after morning classess. Some may have lunch a little earlier. The boarding schools all have dining rooms providing cooked meals. The food, seating arrangements, and other matters vary from school to school. The situation is a little more varied at day schools. Some have dining rooms also, but the children at many day schools bring bag lunches. There are varing approaches to supervising the lunch period at the different schools. On nice days the children may have impromtu picnics. Other schools have the children eat indoors. This depens in part on the facilities available Of course during the Winter and on days with inclemate weather they have to eat indoors. The schools also vary as to what happens after lunch. Day schools tend to give the children free play time after lunch. This is also the apprach at state schools and secondary schools. Preparatory boading schools tend to have a rest period for the children.
Most schools have lunch about 1:00 pm after morning classess. Some may have lunch a little earlier. The boarding schools all have dining rooms providing cooked meals. The meal is precceded by grace. The food, seating arrangements, and other matters vary from school to school. There are normally aange of announcemnents after lunch. The situation is a little more varied at day schools. Some have dining rooms also, but the children at many day schools bring bag lunches. There are varing approaches to supervising the lunch period at the different schools. On nice days the children may have impromtu picnics. Other schools have the children eat indoors. This depens in part on the facilities available Of course during the Winter and on days with inclemate weather they have to eat indoors.
The prep schools also vary as to what happens after lunch. Only about half the lunch break is actually devoted to lunch itself. Activities after lunch vary. At day schools there is often free play, very similar to the morning break. This is also the apprach at state schools and secondary schools. At boarding schools, however, there is almost always a rest period where the children return to their dormitories for a short period. This was the approach at almost all of the boarding schools we visited.
