Vocabulary

It is not very common for children to leave school for any reason during the day where I live. There are no students who go home for lunch. The lunch period is about 30 minutes, not enough time to leave the school, eat, and return.

There may be parts of the US where children do get to go home for lunch, and this may be common in the UK, Canada or Australia (or other English-speaking coun

Thank you very much for your answer.
It exits in the place where I live. I need to have children lining up in two different lines when we leave to have lunch. We go back to classes after two hours break (just my luck!)
Having a row with children eating at school is simple to call out: " School dinners here, please". How could I address the others who eat at home to have them in

Sure, that sounds fine, or "Those going home to eat, over there, please."

It's nice that you say "please."

Very kind of you, Grammar Geek.
I'll put it into practice tomorrow!

When I was teaching I used to call them the go-homers.

It's non-standard, but they all knew what I meant.

Rover

Grammar GeekThere may be parts of the US where children do get to go home for lunch

Along with thousands of others in small-town America, I always went home for lunch, from the first grade of grade school to the senior year of high school. The idea of having lunch at the school was completely novel to me when I first heard of it.

But do they still? The schools here have 25-minute lunch periods.

Grammar GeekBut do they still?

Yes. It's a small town (est. pop. 3000), and almost everyone lives within walking distance to the schools. As I recall we had an hour to get lunch and return.

CJ