Breakfast for Learning at BEYS

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  • The Breakfast Program will always include 3 of the 4 food groups
  • Fresh Fruit
  • Cereal (typically Cherrios or Shreddies)
  • 2% white milk
  • yogourt
  • The plan is to keep the program as simple and cost efficient as possible to ensure program sustainability

Facilities and Personnel Required to Prepare and Serve

Ecole Beausejour Early Years Schoool:

  • The Beausejour Early Years School is used for food preparation, serving and clean-up
  • Student volunteers are used in all phases of the program in partnership with Network 4 Change Outreach Worker
  • 1 student volunteer and 1 N4C staff prepare and serve the breakfast every morning (1 hour)
  • 2 student volunteers and 1 N4C staff lunch monitor daily to raise funds to pay for program food (1 ½ hours)
  • Classroom helpers from the Early Years School clean up the dishes from the classrooms and stack them for clean up
  • 1 N4C staff who delivers food and supplies weekly

Gillis School:

  • 1 volunteer teacher coordinator
  • 4 volunteer students who set up and clean up the breakfast daily
  • 1 N4C staff who delivers the food and supplies on a weekly basis

Hazelridge School:

  • 1 volunteer principal/teacher coordinator
  • student volunteers set up and clean up breakfast daily
  • 1 N4C staff delivers the food and supplies weekly

    Evaluation

    There were some pre-program surveys conducted within the school to determine the number of “hungry” children in classrooms.

    Information was dispersed to parents, teachers and community prior to program start date
    Through food consumption and mid/end school year surveys the program will be evaluated