Allergens

If your child has any known or suspected allergies, you must notify staff and provide all medical and necessary information.

At Berger Primary School we aim to be a Nut-Free school to protect children who have allergies to nuts and peanuts. We do not use nuts in any of the food prepared on-site.

Children who suffer from nut allergies can develop a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction.

If someone has a nut allergy it is not just eating nuts that can cause a severe reaction, just being touched on the skin or smelling the breath of someone who has had nuts or a product containing nuts can trigger anaphylactic shock (which can cause breathing and swallowing difficulties).

The school requests that parents and carers observe the nut-free policy and therefore do not include nuts, or any traces of nuts, in packed lunches and After School Club snacks.

This means that the following items should not be brought into school:

•  Packs of nuts

•  Peanut butter or Nutella sandwiches

•  Fruit and cereal bars that contain nuts

• Chocolate bars or sweets that contain nuts

• Sesame seed rolls (children allergic to nuts may also have a severe reaction to sesame)

• Cakes made with nuts

•  Any home-cooked meals for packed lunches that are made from nuts, peanuts, or nut oils

This list is not exhaustive, so please check the packaging of products closely.

Food contributions for class parties must have a label detailing all ingredients present, and the kitchen environment where the food was prepared must be nut-free.

We cannot give out any sweets brought in from home to be given out as birthday treats.

All children are regularly reminded about the good hygiene practice of washing hands before and after eating which helps to reduce the risk of secondary contamination. Likewise, children are reminded and carefully supervised to minimise the act of food sharing with their friends.