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How to start a Breakfast Club

Published 9 January 10

How to start a Breakfast Club

Providing breakfast provision, including milk, cereals and toast to children in school ticks a box on the healthy schools standard and fits in with the 'whole school approach' to healthy eating and drinking, in a very simple way.  In addition, providing breakfast to children helps meet the new nutritional standards for schools but what's the best way of introducing a Club into your school?

Look no further - following a recent research trial, The School Milk Project (TSMP) in partnership with the Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) has produced a Breakfast Club pack you can download to help assist your school in the implementation, promotion and sustainability of a Breakfast Club.

The pack contains the following useful information:

• Points for consideration
• A guide to setting up a Breakfast Club
• Recipes
• Sample letters to make it easier for you to find out if parents/carers are interested in a Breakfast Club - you may want to send them home or use in a newsletter
• Sample survey for use by your School Council or SNAG group (always good to get the children involved and engaged)
• A checklist guide to help you set up your scheme
• Ideas to help promote the Club and increase attendance

We have also included some facts on the Nutritional Benefits of Breakfast to help you decide whether this provision would be beneficial to your pupils - you may wish to share this with your parents/carers. To download the pack click here.

In addition to this, and to help support you further, you can also download free educational material from http://www.grainchain.com/

It is our aim to make it as easy and hassle-free as possible for you so why not try out the Breakfast Club pack and provide us with your feedback to project@schoolmilk.co.uk as to how we can continue to improve the materials we provide to help schools to introduce a Breakfast Club.