Award Winning Breakfast Clubs
Each year Kellogg’s host the National Breakfast Club Awards to showcase best practice in breakfast clubs. The Awards recognise the great work that teachers, parents, volunteers, school staff and children do to run breakfast clubs. Here are some of our award winning breakfast clubs:
Krazy Kitchen Breakfast Club, Bowbridge Primary School, Newark
Persuading young people to eat healthily can be a very hard task, but through hard work and innovation the Krazy Kitchen breakfast club have managed to persuade their members to eat nutritious food for breakfast.
By offering young people a range of hot and cold foods each morning, and a guest lines of exotic fruit each week the children are introduced to fruits, tastes and flavours that they would not normally have access to in their daily lives, and their natural curiosity encourages them to try the new foods.
The club also understands that fitness goes hand-in-hand with a better diet, and so they are going to spend their prize money on new bikes and scooters.
‘First Stop’, Hitchin Christian Centre, Hitchin
‘First Stop’ began in 2004 because of a local need to provide teenagers with safe and reliable care and support before school. The idea received backing from local businesses, residents and schools, all keen to play their part.
‘First Stop’ now has over 40 community volunteers. Issues such as bullying, disruptive behaviour and low self esteem are addressed with the support of local adult role-models who have a hands-on role in supporting the club.
Breakfast Readers, Uphall Primary School, Ilford
Uphall’s breakfast reading club targets children who are underperforming in reading. The club trains thirteen year old “buddies” from a local secondary school to work with children who may not want to read. The “buddies” then becoming reading role-models and help and motivate the children with their reading.
The club has been so successful that the school is now piloting a breakfast maths club.
Quarry Mount Breakfast Club, Quarry Mount Primary School, Leeds
The North West Leeds Pupil development centre provides breakfast for 25 young people each morning. The club has developed a close relationship with the pupil referral service so that they can support children re-integrating back into the mainstream, after a long period away from school.
The club has strong links with the community: many parents attend as volunteers, helping to build closer links between home and school in a relaxed and informal setting.
The club works with social services and family support advisors to give particular attention to children most in need. The clubs has helped improve poor attendance and punctuality rates.
This year
We’ve just announced this year’s winners so keep an eye on the website for details of how you can enter the National Breakfast Club Awards in future and win cash for your breakfast club.