Lunch Program at Primary School

I think I've talked a bit about Primary Schools in Vietnam. My workshops are held at the Le Hong Phong Primary School, a school with 600 students from Grades 1 to 5.


Students arrive at the school for 7:30 and stay the whole day. They have recess about 9:00 ( I hear their loud, happy (shrill) voices outside my classroom. I usually have to break at that time as well.

Lunch is at 10:30 and is served at the school. After lunch the children have to sleep for awhile and then they can go out and play. Classes resume at 2:00 and go to 4:00 or 4:30 (haven't figured out which yet).



I checked out lunch last week. The cook and her assistants cook in a room attached to the the school. The food is usually rice, and a soup made of tomatos and some meat. The rice and soup is divided into individual pots for each classroom. The food and dishes are taken to the classrooms and the teacher doles out the food to the students. After lunch, the assistants return and pick up the dirty dishes.


Puts a whole new spin on "Lunch Duty" doesn't it???