Lunch Supervision

September 29, 2026

Royal School's Lunch Bunch program is a not for profit, user-pay system. All students who stay over the midday break, except those participating in designated physical activities, will be charged a fee. The fixed fee for K-8 students in Pembina Trails is $150 per child per year. Students bring their lunch from home and are supervised as they eat lunch and during the outside break. The lunch hour runs from 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. For more information and answers to frequently asked questions please request a link to our information package from our front office staff at royal@pembinatrails.ca

Lunch Bunch Program
We have expectations for our ‘Lunch Bunch’ program that promote everyone’s safety and well-being and ask children to eat together while seated, respectfully and quietly. As stated in our ‘Lunch Bunch’ program information package, we ask that students:

Co-operate with lunch supervisors. Students are expected to be polite and helpful.
Eat politely and with good manners.
Talk quietly in the classroom so that lunch supervisors can easily be heard over the combined voices.
Eat only the lunch sent from home. Sharing food is a dangerous practice due to food allergies, so, it is strongly discouraged.
Remain seated at the student’s own desk for the duration of the eating time.
Clean up after lunch is eaten. This includes packing away uneaten portions and garbage.
Refrain from taking food or drink outside.
Follow safe recess guidelines.

Students are required to remain on the school property during the lunch hour unless they are going home for lunch or have parental permission (in writing) to be off school property. Students are not permitted to go across Grant Avenue for lunch unless they are accompanied by their parents. Parents are required to send a note to the classroom teacher if their child is not staying for lunch on any given day. This is to ensure the safety and accountability of all children during lunch.

The lunch hour is as follows:
11:45 a.m. Lunch bell.
12:10 p.m. Outdoor recess or extra-curricular activities
12:45 p.m. Re-entry
12:50 p.m. Classes resume

Parents are required to register and pay lunch program fees for their child(ren) to remain in school during the supervised lunch hour. A registration package will go home on the first day of school. Please note that being part of our ‘Lunch Bunch’ program is a privilege and not a right. Students who cannot demonstrate appropriate lunch conduct may lose their lunch program privileges. Lunch fees must remain current for students to participate in the lunch program.

NO MICROWAVES will be available for student lunches. Please ensure your child has a lunch bag with containers that they can open themselves and their own utensils.
No glassware in lunch kits to prevent breakage please.
Lunch and recess garbage will come home each day.
There will be no sharing of food or drinks.