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Breakfast on menu for all
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
14 February 2008
All children in North Tyneside primary schools could receive free breakfasts before their lessons from September, following an interim report into a £250,000 pilot scheme at eight schools.
Four different options have been trialled at the schools since September 2007, with two schools each receiving either a free midday meal, a free healthy breakfast, a second breakfast mid-morning, or a free mid-morning and mid-afternoon snack for the whole of the academic year. The interim report, published last week by researchers at Northumbria University, found that breakfast was the most beneficial in improving punctuality and readiness to learn and maintaining mental performance over the school morning. North...
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