Figure 1.--These boys have purchaed their lunch sacks in the school canteen and are discussing the morning events during the required period where they have to sit and eat. Notice the ever popular back packs.
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Figure 1.--These boys have purchaed their lunch sacks in the school canteen and are discussing the morning events during the required period where they have to sit and eat. Notice the ever popular back packs. |
Only a few New Zealand secondary schools have cafeterias offering full meals. Students and staff, however, can bring their lunche or buy sanwiches and snacks at a very reasonable price. Schools do try to provide a variety of foods of sound nutritional standards. The students, however, often pass up the more nutritional fare for "crisps" (chips) and sodas. Some schools seeing that it is often a losing effort, more to student tastes (nutrition is often not high on their priorities) to generate more income. The campuses of New Zealand schools at lunch time are filled with groups of friends clustering around to munch on crisps and discuss the days events. Unless it is rainy this takes places on benches and other suitable locations scattered around the campus. Often there is a period in which the students have to sit down and eat, usually aboutv15 minutes. After that they can move around and engage in sports and other activitites until classes resume.
