THERE will be no more grumbling tummies in the first study period at Tamworth Public School (TPS), with a breakfast club having launched this week.
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More than 80 students eagerly piled in on Wednesday morning for the program's first day, and got into the wide range of options available.
TPS partnered with Foodbank for the project, with the latter providing students with breakfast favourites such as cereal and toast.
Assistant principal Catherine Abberfield said the school had been looking to introduce the program for a while, and she believes it will be an overwhelming success.
"At the school we've been talking about having a breakfast club start for a number of years now and after our executive met we formulated a plan to see what we could kick off," she said.
"It's a program where we're trying to help all of our students come to school with a full belly so that they can have a really great start to their learning day and to their morning," she said.
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While there were concerns some students weren't getting a sufficient breakfast at home, Ms Abberfield said there are a range of reasons students are taking part in the program.
She believes the breakfast club will be particularly popular with rural students, who have a long commute to school.
"It was more than the fact we were concerned some kids weren't having breakfast, it was just a great opportunity for our school to partner up with Foodbank, and we thought we'd see if the need was there," she said.
"We have students that come to school and they get on a bus really early, we have kids that come from Carroll Gap, so they may be having breakfast really early in the morning and it's great for them just to have another top up."
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