Monday, May 6, 2013

Lunch Bunch

Our school counseling program at Lee Elementary offers small group counseling for our students.  Small groups provide not only the opportunity for additional learning experiences, but also a time of sharing and a time of growing together with fellow students.  Small groups give the students a chance to belong, a chance to express themselves, and a chance to benefit from the support of group members.  I offer many small groups that occur during lunch time covering a variety of student needs.  Since each day different students have lunch plans with me, I thought a good way to communicate with both students and lunch monitors would be to hand out these badges:


Here are the backs of the badges.  For our younger students, they are to start eating their lunch in the cafeteria until I come to pick them up.  Our older students have permission to meet me in my office.

Parent permission is always requested for a student to participate in a lunch bunch group.  Please contact me to refer your child or to ask any questions.

You can download the templates here and here.

8 comments:

  1. Hello Jaclyn, I'm in my first year in counseling and really love this idea! I was wondering if you had a template of the letter you sent home for parent permission for their child participating in the lunch bunch group. Any help would be very much appreciated!
    Thank you!
    Patricia Quintero
    School Counselor - RRISD
    Patricia_Quintero@roundrockisd.org

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  2. The permission slips I create are different based on the topic of each group, but it's important to include the ASCA standards: http://www.schoolcounselor.org/asca/media/asca/positionstatements/ps_group-counseling.pdf

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  3. What a great idea, thanks for sharing! Just wondering the best way you found to distribute the passes to your students. Do you drop them off in teacher boxes the night before or hand them out to students the morning of? Or something different? Thanks!

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    1. Thanks Flynn! Yes, I put them in the teachers mailbox the afternoon before with a sticky note to remind them who I'll be picking up.

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  4. Hi Jaclyn,
    I love your page, I've been doing lunch bunch for years and LOVE it, but never thought of the idea of lanyards. I love this! Do you have a template for the pass?

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    1. Thanks Jessica! I've updated this page and I have linked the badge templates at the bottom of the post. :)

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  5. Hi Jaclyn, how can I edit the badge to add names to it?

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    1. Unfortunately tt's a pdf, so I'm not sure you can edit it. Maybe you could add a text box to it using Adobe Acrobat?

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