Feeling shocked!

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Feeling slightly shocked- recent new rule seems to have appeared in dd's infant school.
The children with packed lunches have them in a sort of log cabin and are not allowed to speak!!
The children who have school dinners go to the hall and are allowed to speak albeit in quiet fashion- which is acceptable.
I'm all right Jack as my 2 love school dinners.
Don't you think that eating should be more than just about a quick shovel shovel and out to play. That encouraging conversation with food has just got to be a good thing, and this all sounds so negative.

One reason that dinner children might get stickers is that parents don't have a clue about how much their children are eating. Packed lunch children take their leftovers home (at our school anyway) so can be checked and 'praised' by mum

Where is the hamster - that is very true. But it is still hard for a 4 year old when her friend gets a sticker for eating everything and she does not, despite also eating everything.

oops, majorca, I have only just seen your message. I see what you are saying, and had not looked at it that way - stop when you are full should be preferable to 'finish your plate'.
Having said that, the school meals don't seem overly big, and I don't pack dd's lunchbox too full either.

Yes I agree, When we used to give out stickers it was to both. I think it was stopped because the same children ate everything up every day and the stickers weren't encouraging the poor eaters that they were aimed at.

Somebody is making a hell of a lot of money out of selling stickers! I must admit, my DD has been at school all of 4 weeks and the sticker situation is ridiculous imo. She has already sussed out that the stickers are given out in order generally, but there we go. To give a sticker for finishing your plate is not on imo and I would be if they introduced this at my DDs school.