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No More Snacks Please! - a poem for children

By Josie

08 September 2007

SCHOOL BANS ALL UNHEALTHY SNACKS: “A primary school in Aberdeen has banned pupils from bringing in any chocolate, crisps or fizzy drinks. Any Albyn School pupils caught eating the snacks will have them taken off then, in line with the new rules to encourage healthy eating. Head teacher, John Halliday, said it was really important for children to learn to eat well when they are still young. “We are trying to get them into a mindset of moving away from this unhealthy diet”, he said

            My teacher does a dreadful thing –
               He confiscates our sweets.
            He goes through every lunch box,
               And removes our little treats.

            He tells us that they’re bad for us
               He says we should eat well –
            He teaches us it’s best to wish
                Our chocolates farewell.

            Our fizzy drinks all disappear.
               And also Mum’s nice cake.
            His greedy eyes explore my box
               And the crisps he quickly takes.

           I looked in through the staffroom door;
               Now I know what happens next.
            It’s the teachers who stuff all our treats
               At lunchtime down their necks.

Copyright 2007
www.whiteheadm.co.uk

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*GASP*
Written by TurboWolffe (94 comments posted) 11th September 2007

What an evil thing to do,
But we ALL know 'tis true
Some people can be SO bad,
And truly, 'tis very sad :grin

Nice one there, josie. Isn't it horrible when we have to SNEAK our treats (I'm a teen, so I wouldn't understand that)? I like this one. I find it VERY truthful (once again, I wouldn't understand: I'm homeschooled)
Heh heh heh.

TurboWolffe

No more snacks
Written by Josie (2500 comments posted) 13th September 2007

It was the ration book that confiscated our snacks I'm afraid.

Written by Fledermaus (3159 comments posted) 21st September 2007

Ha! I suspect that is only too true. I saw this programme with Jamie Oliver (he started this didn't he?). In one episode he wants to teach kids how to cook, but expells a little girl who doesn't want to hand in her sweets. I felt realy sorry for her (and so did Jamie afterwards, when she ran from the classroom crying). I mean, not giving children sweets is one thing, but taking it from them quite another.

To Fledermaus
Written by Josie (2500 comments posted) 21st September 2007

I have to admit that I laughed as I wrote this. I could see this fat teacher peering through his glasses greedily exploring the lunch boxes for his favourite snacks, and then sitting with his friends in the staffroom tucking into all that is bad. ha ha. (It's my childish humour again). I noted that he took mother's nice home-made cake. Was that bad for the children? I love my mother's cakes (and my own), ha ha. I could imagine the children standing in the playground at lunch-time, heads together, talking about this very subject. Teachers could make a good drama out of this poem with their children.

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