For the first time a study has proven what everyone suspected – pupils who eat a healthy breakfast every morning typically perform better at school and thus achieve greater learning outcomes. So now we can ask the question, “to what extent?”
Fortunately we don’t have to look far for the answer as this same longitudinal study, conducted by Cardiff University, also revealed the extent to which eating a healthy breakfast affects pupils’ performance at school and learning outcomes.
The study consisted of asking 5,000 nine to eleven year olds from 100 schools in Wales to keep a list of what they ate in 24 hours. Researchers then collected their results in Key Stage 2 teacher assessments between six and eighteen months later.
They found that pupils who ate a healthy breakfast every morning typically achieved an above average performance in their Key Stage 2 teacher assessments – up to twice as high as those who didn’t eat breakfast regularly or at all.
It’s for this reason that schools that host a Breakfast Club each morning are so valuable, giving pupils who don’t eat breakfast (for whatever reason) the opportunity to not only reap the long term health benefits of eating breakfast, but also to improve their learning outcomes.
If your school already hosts a Breakfast Club or is planning to set one up, it is possible to further boost pupils’ performance at school by offering them a number of activities at Breakfast Club which will warm the brain up before learning commences.
With this in mind Edventure has produced a Breakfast Club Pack, complete with an extensive range of games and activities, including:
- 1x Chess
- 1 x Draughts
- 1 x Giant 2D Noughts & Crosses
- 1 x Giant Wooden Dominoes
- 1 x Ludo
- 1 x Pick up Sticks
- 2 x Playing Cards
- 1 x Popular Card Games Pack
- 1 x Shut the Box
- 1 x Snakes & Ladders
- 1 x Wooden Tumbling Blocks
We have also produced a number of free Game Guides:
And A Guide to Tumbling Blocks
The Breakfast Club Pack can be ordered in a variety of ways, including:
- On our website www.edventure.co.uk
- by fax to 01323 50 10 41
- by phone on 01323 50 10 40
- by email at sales@edventure.co.uk
- by post to Edventure Ltd, Hargreaves Business Park, Hargreaves Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN23 6QW.
If you quote HH0515 on your order delivery will be free. Without quoting the code the charge is £3.95 if ordered online or £6.95 if ordered by fax, phone or post.
Link to article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-34834832