North Rocks Public School

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Telephone02 9871 1772

Emailnorthrocks-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

What we offer

Each school in NSW offers something slightly different depending on the community. Here's what we offer for you.

Hiring our facilities

You may apply to use our school’s facilities for appropriate purposes provided your hiring of the facility doesn't interfere with our teaching and learning programs.

We assess each application on a case-by-case basis. Find out more at Using school facilities.

If you’re interested in hiring our facilities, contact us for details.

Crunch and Sip program 

Most students at North Rocks Public School participate in the Crunch and Sip program which is widely used across NSW schools. Crunch and Sip involves the children having a drink of water and a small snack of fresh fruit or vegetables during the morning session at about 10am.

The aim is to increase fruit and vegetable and water consumption and decrease consumption of energy dense foods and soft drinks. The children eat while in class but continue with lessons. Each teacher has a slightly different way of organising the snack time.

Crunch and Sip promotes healthy eating habits with minimal lesson disruption. Schools using the Crunch and Sip program have reported improvement in the students' ability to focus and concentrate on their work. Also, improved behaviour has been reported.

Students will need the following to participate in Crunch and Sip.

Drink which includes:

  • water only
  • refillable clear bottles to be used
  • please empty, wash and refill daily.

Food which includes:

  • any washed fresh fruit
  • any washed fresh vegetables
  • dried fruit (but not too much as it is not good for teeth)
  • no canned or pre-packaged fruit or dried fruit
  • all food needs to be in a re-usable container (no throw away packaging) except whole small apples or bananas
  • food that is not messy and easy to munch on while working (not unpeeled uncut orange).

Examples include celery sticks, carrot sticks, cut apple, bite size pieces of melon, berries, snow peas. Visit the Crunch and Sip website for more information.