Useful links
This page provides quick and easy links to hundreds of breakfast club related resources.
Resources
Visit the resources page to download timesaving tools and resources. This will help you develop all aspects of your club and has been designed especially for Breakfast Club Plus.
Quick links
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- Activities
- Evaluation and monitoring
- Funding
- Good practice guidance
- Nutrition and health
- Food Producers
- Regulations and inspections
- Transport
Activities
Growing food
- Duchy Originals HDRA Organic Gardens for Schools. Contains information on how to set up and manage a food garden and downloadable factsheets, games and teachers' resources.
Sports
- British Rope Skipping Association
- Children's Yoga
- English Federation of Disability Sport
- Kid Premiership
- Sports Council Wales
- Sport England
- Sport Scotland
- The Youth Sport Trust
- YST Top Trainers' Club
Reading
Visits and Trips
Online Breakfast and Health Games and Activities
- Home Grown Cereals Authority Interactive games and teaching tools
- Food Standards Agency - Bash Street Kids downloads
- Friendly Farm Club Farm and food related online games
- Food Standards Agency website school food bus
- BBC Northern Ireland Interactive website for NI BBC education
- Feed Me Better campaign Rubbish food at school? Get member’s involved.
- Kellogg's interactive website with loads of games and activitie
- Healthy Schools interactive games. Activities for all ages
- The Food Dude programme An initiative to encourage and maintain healthy eating habits in children.
- Grab 5 Ideas and practical activities to help promote fruit and vegetables
- Welsh Heath Promotion Division Interactive website for children (English language version) (Welsh language version)
Evaluation and monitoring
- NOF - the Big Lottery (formerly New Opportunities Fund) has good guidance reports and tools on self evaluation and monitoring projects. Go to their publications section and search for general evaluation.
- QISS - Quality in Study Support organisation provides support and guidance to schools and organisations helping to raise student attainment and development through out-of-school-hours activities or study support.
- Study Support ETC - visit our online support service for extending schools and find out how others have approached evaluation and monitoring.
- ContinYou Study Support Online Reference - visit our online study support reference guide which has lots of useful documents on evaluation, projects that have been evaluated and best practice models
Funding
- Visit our funding page for specific information.
Good Practice Guidance
- Healthy living blueprint for schools, DfES, September 2004
Follow the link for more information and to download the report. - Starting early: Food and nutrition education of young children (PDF file, 216 KB), Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), July 2004
- Burger boy and sporty girl: What children say about school meals, Barnardo's, December 2004
Follow the link for more information and to download the report. - Fit For School: How Breakfast Clubs Meet Health, Education and Childcare Needs. A selection of papers from the New Policy Instutite (NPI) which set out the potential benefits of breakfast clubs.
- Food For Thought: Breakfast Clubs and Their Challenges is a wide-ranging survey of breakfast clubs throughout the country, highlighting the issues that clubs themselves and policy makers need to address to ensure their successful development. Produced by the NPI.
- Improving Breakfast Clubs, Lessons from the best - The report of the year-long NPI evaluation of 58 breakfast club winners. Contains guidance for co-ordinators and policy makers on best practice in breakfast club development
- Kellogg's Informal breakfast club survey 2006 and supporting graphs.
- Safe keeping: A good practice guide for health and safety in study support.
- Scottish Community Diet Project Lots of information and links for schools and communities looking to set up breakfast clubs in Scotland.
Nutrition and Health
- Food Standards Agency Nutrition Website Advice, essential facts and top tips for healthy eating. Spilt into useful sections for younger children, teenagers and adults.
- The Food Commission Independent food watchdog campaigning for safer, healthier food in the UK
- British Nutrition Foundation
- Food a fact of Life Provides a comprehensive and progressive approach to teaching healthy eating to primary schoolchildren.
- Food Standards Agency
- Health Promoting Schools
- Food in Schools Wide range of information for teachers, parents, governors and health professionals and an online toolkit to help schools develop a whole school approach to healthy eating.
- Food Research and Action Centre (FRAC) Information and reports on how breakfast clubs and good nutrition benefit children
- British Dietetic Association
- Department of Health
- Scotland's Health Improvement Agency
- Health Promotion Agency of Northern Ireland
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (public health)
- Anna Freud Centre Helps children with behavioural and emotional problems. Features guidelines for parents concerned about their children's eating habits.
- Jamie's School Dinners The website that accompanies the ground-breaking Channel 4 series.
- National Network for Childcare Lots of useful tips for anyone feeding a child.
- Guild of food writers List of organisations supporting children's food and cooking
Food producers
- Big Barn A national directory of local producers. You can also telephone them for information on 01234 871 005
- Flour and Grain The education website of the Home Grown Cereals Association. Contains great education resources, recipies and activities.
- FareShare A national charity that links up food producers and retailers with communities to reduce 'food poverty'. They redistrivute surplus food in eight regional areas.
Regulations and Inspections
- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Info on food handling courses
- St John's Ambulance Info on first aid courses
- Ofsted
- Estyn - Estyn are the Welsh Ofsted equivalent responsible for school inspections
- CSIW - Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales. Responsible for the regulation of child and early years care in Wales
- HMIe - Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Education regulate and inspect Scottish schools Tel: 01506 600200
- Care Commission - Responsible for regulating and inspecting care provision across Scotland
- Department of Education Northern Ireland - Responsible for inspection and regulation in Northern Ireland.
- Criminal Records Bureau England
- Criminal Records Bureau Wales
- Disclosure Scotland Email: info@disclosurescotland.co.uk Tel: 0870 609 6066
- Criminal Records Bureau Northern Ireland
Transport
- Walking Bus scheme Database of schools that operate a walking bus and info on how to set one up.
