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MEALS Food
■ Students should always eat
with you and your family.
You will be informed of any allergies or dietary requirements in advance, however
please check with the students directly what they do and do not like.
■ Please ensure students have
at least one cooked meal per
Breakfast day.
Please provide a substantial continental or English breakfast daily.
Breakfast can consist of cereals, toast, croissants, yogurt, with tea or coffee and ■ Please tell students clearly
fruit juice etc. and this can be served on a ‘help yourself’ basis. when they must be home for their
evening meals.
Students generally like:
■ Please ask them what they like
■ Hot chocolate or juice (not tea/coffee), cereal, toast + chocolate spread.
/ don’t like to eat.
■ Many would love to try a typical cooked English breakfast!
■ Homestays provide Bed &
Students generally dislike:
Breakfast, lunch and evening
■ Marmite, peanut butter and marmalade.
meal.
Please make sure students are aware of the breakfast arrangements
■ Lunch is generally a packed
particularly when they are helping themselves as they often do not under-
lunch on school days/excursions.
stand this
At weekends you may choose.
Packed Lunch ■ We will inform you if your
Each weekday and for scheduled excursions students need a packed lunch students have any special dietary
It should contain at least: requirements.

■ Two rounds of sandwiches (four pieces of bread), with a variety of Please make sure:
fillings (cheese/cold meat/egg/tuna/prawns, and salad).
■ Students know the times of
■ A savoury snack (crisps, peanuts, carrots, cucumber, dips etc). their meals.

■ A sweet of some kind (cake, biscuits, yogurt etc). ■ Students have had enough to
eat.
■ A piece of fruit and a drink.
■ Students take their packed
lunch in the morning.
■ A bottle of water that can be refilled at school.
■ You offer healthy options
Dinner
where possible.
Please ensure students have at least one cooked meal per day. Dinner should be
varied and nutritious, usually followed by a small dessert. Normally we would ■ You offer fruit or yogurt if no
expect our students to sit down with the family for the evening and weekend dessert is planned with main
meals and have the same food, since they appreciate this time to socialise and meals.
improve their English. Families from most nationalities eat together around the table
and we expect the same. The evening meal is a good opportunity for you to get to Typical problems
know your student and for them to practice their English. Only in special circum- Please note that “tea” is colloquial
stances (e.g. a late return from an excursion) should your guests eat alone. and students may not understand
it to mean dinner. They may think
Departing Students you are offering them a drink and
Packed meals should be provided for departing students. Please check your copy say no thank you, and then
of their programme. Please make sure that there is sufficient food for the journey. complain that they have not been
Students, including adult students, always appreciate being offered some food on fed!
departure as a caring gesture, even if it is not requested of you.
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