Leaving the school for lunch

[OliverTwiat]

What school year does your DC's school let them have lunch outside in "town"?

For my DC it's only in 6th form.

Ours is only 6th form.

They banned it in most places up to y11.
Safeguarding, mess in the community etc.

In Scotland I don't know any secondary schools that prevent any pupils leaving the grounds at lunchtime. Some do discourage it.

Yes 6th form seems to be the standard.
Round my way they all seem to head to the nearest Maccyds.
Must cost them a fortune doing that daily.

In most schools the lunch break in Years 7 - 11 is so stupidly short most wouldn't have time to go anywhere.
Many don't even get enough time to actually eat as it is.

Sixth form here too

I used to go home every lunchtime and watch Neighbours!

Sixth, though actually my son had permission to come home for lunch during GCSE years too, but we lived five minutes down the road, but that wasn't normal and have no idea how he got permission to do that!

For my DC school. In year 12 they can leave school at 12:30 if they want to go home early. In year 13 they can leave at 10:15.

Y10.

I had to give a document to the school to let my dc out at lunchtime.
Back on the day, the schools couldn’t legally stop children leaving site if they had parental permission.
Not sure about now though.

Ours don’t allow it at all. In fairness given the roads around our school and the distance to the nearest food requiring a car, it would be a traffic nightmare.

In our area students drive starting in year 10. Since our school only has 1 road with parking lot access, it takes about 40 minutes for everyone to arrive or leave.

the odd thing is that they also banned food delivery. Some of the other schools in the area with the same problem will let students use apps to have food delivered.

From October in S1 here

Think we are the same. When dd started S1 it was after Christmas but it’s October holidays now.

My DC left secondary 10 years ago but there were no restrictions at that time.

Tbh I am surprised that this is something schools would be preventing. Presumably all but the most mollycoddled DC will be able to make their own way to and from school from year 7, so I don’t see what the difference is at lunchtime.

Y11 prefects. (School stops at y11.)
So actually y10 prefects after summer half term as that's when they take over.

Sixth form only but we only have 30 minutes lunch break so you wouldn't have enough time really. Sixth form only go out if they are on a free period.

Only 6th form around here. They have passes to get through the security gates, 7-11 aren't allowed to leave the premises during the school day.

6th form only at my DDs school too.

Year 11 at my son's school. I wish they wouldn't because I want him to continue having school lunches, not messing around in town spending too much money on crap food.

6th form only. Never heard of it for pupils any younger than that

I suspect this will raise a few eyebrows given the mollycoddling of DC that goes on now, but my DC were at primary in the 2010s.

At that time (only very basic phones available remember), year 6 were allowed out of school at lunchtime with parental permission. None of them died or otherwise came to harm 😯

All year groups can leave the school in secondary. For S1 it's from October.

Our school catering hall wouldn't be able to cope with the whole school staying for lunch. Also they're teenagers not little children, and need to build independence and trust.

No security gates here, children can come and go as they please.

Y11 with parental permission and the approval could be revoked by the school when bad behaviour points reached a certain level.

6thf form - no restrictions at all.

The school is near a small stretch of shops, chippies, cafes and DD (Y13 now) likes to get away from the school grounds and finds a Sainsbury meal deal nicer than the cafeteria food.

Were your DC allowed to take outside food back inside to eat?