Healthy breakfasts to help Kidderminster students through the pandemic
Students at a Wyre Forest school are starting the day with a free healthy breakfast – thanks to a new national scheme to help children through the pandemic.
Baxter College, in Kidderminster, has signed up to the National School Breakfast Programme in response to Covid-19, which is being delivered by charities Family Action and Magic Breakfast.
Principal, Matthew Carpenter, said: “As part of the Government-funded programme, schools can choose to offer children a healthy breakfast at school or at home. We are providing each student with a fortnightly breakfast hamper that can be taken home.
“We run an established breakfast club in school but this scheme allows us to reach out to more of our students. The benefits of a healthy breakfast include children being settled and ready to learn at the start of the day.
“We were able to distribute the first hampers just before the half term break, which proved fortuitous in the wake of the government’s decision not to extend free school meal funding through the holiday.”
The hampers include cereals, along with other long-life breakfast items such as bagels.
