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As KickStart Breakfast clocks up six months since launching, the programme is now working with close to 300 schools and their breakfast clubs across New Zealand. Strathmore School in Tokoroa has been on board with the programme since term two on this year (2009).
Strathmore breakfast club co-ordinator, Miss Ifi Hasini viewed the opportunity to get the KickStart Breakfast programme happening in their school earlier this year as extremely good timing. “Teachers were concerned at the alarming number of children not eating breakfast in the morning. Some children viewed a meat pie or a mixed bag of lollies as breakfast.”
Ifi says a wonderful person suggested that the school join up after reading an article in a farming magazine about the KickStart programme. Enquiries were made by the school principal and voila, the Strathmore Breakfast club was established. After running the breakfast club for a term, the numbers of students coming early for breakfast is continuing to increase, and the benefits of learning and eating healthy are starting to show in the way kids think
about food.“In our last breakfast club of term two, we saw the opportunity to show children
the different ways to ‘eat’ Weet-Bix,” Ifi says. “The children were stunned at how
delicious and easy it was to make Weet-Bix smoothies.”The school is rapt with the opportunity Fonterra and Sanitarium have provided to pass the healthy eating message to the children. Strathmore School runs their breakfast club on Mondays and Wednesdays with around 35 students attending each morning.
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Congratulations Southern Cross Campus - Winners of the Un-forget-a-Bull breakfast!
As the winners of KickStart Breakfast’s first nationwide competition, Southern Cross Campus school in South Auckland enjoyed a guest appearance from Anchor Mega Bull for an extra special breakfast club, thanks to their winning breakfast club photos.
Fonterra’s KickStart Breakfast schools were invited to send in their best breakfast club photos for the chance to have Mega Bull visit their club for breakfast, with Southern Cross Campus taking out the top prize with their ‘Breakfast is Cool’ photo.
The student health leaders took the opportunity to promote the KickStart Breakfast club, putting together a presentation and presenting to the school assembly. The aim was to raise awareness for the breakfast club, get more students to come along and to highlight the need for student to have a good breakfast to help kick start their day.
Running on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Southern Cross Campus’ breakfast club caters for
around 20 students and is run by, student health leaders, and is supervised by teachers and supported by the local Life Church volunteers.
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Healthy eating has become such an important focus at Leabank School in Manurewa that parents officially launched a Charitable Trust at the beginning of May. The Trust will support the schools Breakfast Club which helps around 90 children start the day on a full tummy two times a week.
Breakfast co-ordinator Angela Opai says the Charitable Trust will be used to help meet family needs, and to educate parents that healthy eating doesn’t have to be expensive. “The Trust will help families through education, support and guidance, food packages and more – depending on the individual need."
“Already they have assisted Leabank School by providing us with a fridge to store the milk,” says Angela.
The Breakfast Club starts at 8am and is run by parents on a roster system, with approximately three sitting in on each breakfast.
“In addition to the nutritional benefits of breakfast, we teach kids how to conduct themselves properly at the table during meal times. They’re given advice on how to correctly use their utensils, and we encourage them to have conversations with each other."“It is fantastic to see the quieter, shyer students holding conversations with other children – it is very beneficial all round.” Over the course of term one, parent groups and some teachers at Leabank School filled out assessment forms on how they thought the children were performing on club mornings. “The results haven’t been fully collated, but they are very positive, with most teachers noticing an improvement in concentration levels.”
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