DBIS NUT FREE POLICY

15 August 2024

Dear Parents and Guardians,

 

We look forward to welcoming all students back on our campuses next week and just wanted to remind you that we are a NUT FREE school. We have students across all levels in DBIS with  Severe Nut Allergies.  We ask that you please be vigilant and mindful when preparing your children’s lunches and snacks for school.  

 

These allergies can be so severe that any contact with nuts or nut products (ingesting or indirect contact with someone who has touched or eaten any kind of nut could lead to an anaphylactic reaction requiring emergency medical intervention). 

 

 

To ensure the safety of these children at school, we need to insist on your cooperation in the following:

 

• We are a Nut Free School.

 

• Please do not send nut products to school with your child. This includes pesto, Nutella, peanut butter, fruit and nut bars, chocolate bars, etc. If your helper is making the lunches, please make them aware of the above.

 

• If you are making things like homemade pesto at home for school lunches, please do not use pine nuts or any other form of nut in the recipe. If sending pesto or nut free butter, please let us know if it is nut free (pop a note into the lunchbox or inform the class teacher). If your helper is making the lunches, please make them aware of the above.  

 

• Please read packaging labels very carefully and discuss this with your helper or anyone else who may be involved in preparing your child’s lunch and snacks.

                              

If your child has had any nut products before school, please ensure your child washes his/her hands thoroughly with soap and water, cleans his/her teeth, and drinks a glass of water before they come to school. 

Please do not hesitate to discuss this with us if you have any questions. 

Thank you in advance for your cooperation. 

 

Tamara Quinn, Kate Yarnall, and Jessica Peeters

 

DBIS Health and First Aid Coordinators

ey.medical.dbis.edu.hk and [email protected]