Breakfast club pupils show 30% improvement in class

A school is seeing students’ concentration levels rise by supplying them the most important meal of the day. Claire O’Sullivan reports.

AT 8.15am every morning, up to 150 pupils from a Co Tipperary secondary school settle down for a full breakfast.

Since the National School Completion Programme started a breakfast club at Coláiste Chluain Meala Junior School two years ago, teachers have recorded a 30% improvement in punctuality and improved pupil concentration and discipline.