Doveton North Primary School students Mohammed and Carolanne tuck into some fruit at their breakfast club.
CHILDREN at a Doveton school are heading off to class with full tummies and big smiles following the success of a community breakfast club.
Up to 20 children tuck into healthy smoothies, toasties, cereal and fruit each morning at the Doveton North Family Resource Centre before heading for the classroom.
The Doveton North Primary School students have made many new friends since the initiative began more than a year ago and even take a look through the daily newspapers and play games as they eat their appetising breakfast.
Doveton early years project coordinator Jeanette Miller coordinates the breakfast club and said generous donations from The Smith Family had allowed the centre to buy a blender to make fruit smoothies and a sandwich maker to make cheese and baked beans toasties.
Ms Miller said bread and cereal was donated too and the children loved coming to the centre before school.
“They’ve made a sign, and a specials board for Breakfast Club. The parents who volunteer to run the sessions are run off their feet,” she said.
Ms Miller said teachers had noticed a huge difference in student concentration since the breakfast club commenced and many of the children had not eaten breakfast before the program began.
School principal Murray Geddes said the breakfast club was of great benefit to students and the children also greatly enjoyed the social side of the morning meetings.
