Breakfast is a necessary meal for children, raising alert levels and performance at school, as well as making the children healthier and happier. Despite the great advantages however, many children have a daily habit of skipping breakfast.

Around the country schools are trying a novel solution to combat the problem by providing a healthy breakfast for children before classes begin. This has a great number of benefits including improved academic performance for the children, less stress for the parents, and more manageable students for the teachers.

So far the programs have predominately been sponsored by charities however Moneymum has recently asked the question, why don’t parents pay for schools to provide breakfast? Besides saving time and effort for the parents, it would ensure all children get the most important meal of the day and would make the classroom less stressful for the teachers.

The Victorian Government has created an information booklet about establishing breakfast programs at schools which includes tips for setting up breakfast programs, and sample letters you might use to approach businesses asking for support. The information booklet can be found here.

Writer Tristan Boyd, Editor Dr Ramesh Manocha.

Breakfast at school? Smarter then you might think

Breakfast is a necessary meal for children, rasing alert levels and performance at school, as well as making children healthier and happier. Despite the great advantages however, many children have a daily habit of missing breakfast.

Around the country schools are trying a novel solution to combat the problem by providing a healthy breakfast for children before classes begin. This has a great number of benefits including improved academic performance for the children, less stress for the parents, and more manageable students for the teachers.

So far the programs have predominately been sponsored by charities however Moneymum has recently asked the question, why don’t parents pay for schools to provide breakfast? Besides saving time and effort for the parents, it would ensure all children get the most important meal of the day and would make the classroom less stressful for the teachers.

The Victorian Government has created an information booklet about establishing breakfast programs at schools which includes tips for setting up breakfast programs, and sample letters you might use to approach businesses asking for support. The information booklet can be found here.