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Breakfast club awards 2007/ 2008

Last year’s awards focused on excellence and innovation in five key categories:

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Awards made were:

  • one national winner in each category - £1,500 each
  • two runners up in each category - £650 each
  • two highly commended in each category - free subscription to Schools ETC magazine for one year. What is Schools ETC?

Additionally, five clubs in each category reached the final stage of judging and received a ‘finalist’ certificate to recognize their valued application.  

We received an extremely high number of quality applications last year, from a hugely diverse number of settings and were impressed by the commitment shown by all the applicants to developing and establishing sustainable breakfast clubs.

 

Nutrition

Krazy Kitchen Breakfast Club, Bowbridge Primary School, Newark

Attendees: 375

Age range: 3 - 11

Persuading young people to eat healthily can be a very hard task, but through hard work and innovation the Krazy Kitchen Breakfast Club have managed to persude their members to swap their high-sugar ceraeals for nutritious food. 

By offering young people a nutritious range of hot and cold foods each morning, and a guest lines of exotic fruit each week the children are introduced to fruits, tastes and flavours that they would not normally have access to in their daily lives, and their natural curiosity encourages them to try the new foods.  

The club also understands that fitness goes hand-in-hand with a better diet, and so they are going to spend their prize money on new bikes and scooters.

Runner up - Luttons Bon Appetite, Luttons Primary School, Malton

Runner up – Thorogate Breakfast Club, Rawmarsh Thorogate Junior & Infant School, Rawmarsh, Rotherham

Highly commended – Larks, Blenheim Primary School, Leigh on Sea

Highly commended – Kickstart Breakfast Club, The Mile Project, Orchards Middle School, Worthing

 

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Community involvement 

'First Stop’, Hitchin Christian Centre, Hitchin

Attendees: 200 - 300

Age range: 11 - 18

 
‘First Stop’ began in 2004 out of a need to provide teenagers with a safe and reliable care and support.  The idea received backing from local businesses, residents and schools, all keen to play their part.

‘First Stop’ now boats over 40 community volunteers.  Issues such as bullying, disruptive behaviour and low self esteem are addressed with the support of local adult role-models who have a hands on role in supporting the club.

The judges chose the club because it:
  • engaged well with the local community, demonstrating tangible benefits
  • renewed the pupils interest in the local area, leading them to engage in the wider community through volunteering
  • broke down barriers between children and young people.
Runner up – Cale Green Breakfast Club, Cale Green Primary School, Stockport

Runner up – Broadway Breakfast Club, Broadway Primary School, Sunderland

Highly commended – Arrochar Primary School Breakfast Club, Helensburgh

Highly commended – Early Birds, Mansel Primary School, Sheffield

 

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Achieving sustainability 

Ashton Gate Out of School Breakfast Club, Bristol

Attendees: 80

 

Age range: 4 – 11

Ashton Gate Breakfast Club have created a sustainable funding system which allows them to provide a wide variety of activities, and which will sustain the club long-term.
 
The staff consistently pitch for funding from a number of sources: they have financial backing from Bristol Youth and Community Action, and the Disabled Children’s Service has provided funding for a play worker, dedicated to working with disabled children.  
 
The judges chose Ashton Gate because:
  • the club uses feedback and evaluation to improve and develop services
  • the accounts and budgets are monitored monthly to ensure sustainability
  • the club regularly promotes itself via open mornings in the school playground.

Ashton Gate Breakfast Club is investing the £1,500 prize money in an allotment, so that the children can grow their own fresh produce, which will then be served at the breakfast club.
  
Runner up – Sunrise Study Club, Little Over Community School, Little Over, DerbyAge range:

Runner up – Kids @ High View, High View Primary Learning Centre, Barnsley

Highly commended – Hythe Bay Breakfast Club, Hythe Bay Children’s Centre & Primary School, Hythe

Highly commended – Beechwood School Breakfast Club, Beechwood Primary School, Middlesbrough
 

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‘Added value’ activities 

Breakfast Readers, Uphall Primary School, Ilford

Attendees: 48 boys (plus 30 buddies)

Age range: 9 – 10 (the buddies are 13)

Uphall’s breakfast reading club targets children who are underperforming in reading.  The club trains thirteen year old “buddies” from a local secondary school, how to work with children who may not want to read.  The “buddies” then help the children with their reading, by motivating them and by being reading role-models.

The club helps these children improve their reading, provides peer mentoring and meets the “buddie’s” citizenship requirements.

The club has been so successful that the school is now piloting a breakfast maths club.

Runner up – ‘Jimmies Club’, St. James Primary School, Harlow

Runner up – Breakfast Ballers, Rush Croft Community Sports College, Waltham Forest

Highly commended – Starfish Breakfast Club, Somerhill Junior School, Hove

Highly commended – The BASE E2E Learners Breakfast Club, The Base Young People Centre, Whitley Bay 

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Improving social and emotional well-being 

Quarry Mount Breakfast Club, Quarry Mount Primary School, Leeds

Attendees: 75

Age range: 5 - 11

The North West Leeds Pupil development centre provides breakfast for 25 young people each morning.  The club has developed a close relationship with the pupil referral service so that they can support children re-integrating back into the mainstream, after a long period away from school.

The club has strong links with the community: Many parents attend as volunteers, helping to build closer links between home and school in a relaxed and informal setting.

The club works with social services and family support advisors to give particular attention to children most in need.  They have helped to improve poor attendance and punctuality rates.
 

Runner up – 8 O’Clock Club, Chase Lane Primary School, Chingford

Runner up – Brunch Club, Home Start, Eastleigh

Highly commended – Northlands Wood Breakfast Club, Northlands Wood Primary School, Haywards Heath

Highly commended – Avondale Breakfast Club, Avondale Infants School, Kettering 

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Background to the awards

In association with Kellogg's ContinYou has run a national Breakfast Club Plus Award scheme since 1999. Award winners have helped inform national research and policy development. These awards are one way we can celebrate the achievements and benefits of breakfast clubs and we hope the winners offer inspiration to others.

Breakfast Club Plus awards are recognised and supported by Education Guardian.