PEOPLE of Toodyay your help is needed.
The Breakfast Club at our local school is in danger of closing.
This is a very necessary service because some students have to catch an early bus to school and don’t eat any breakfast at all.
Studies show students who eat a healthy breakfast tend to have better concentration in the classroom than those who skip breakfast altogether.
They can focus on tasks better and are less distracted in their learning.
Toodyay’s School Breakfast Club service operates Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Each shift needs three volunteers who can offer their support for just one hour a day.
At the moment we are down to just Wednesdays and Fridays, with only two people available for each of those shifts.
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In addition, the current Breakfast Club coordinator is retiring, and a new volunteer is needed to take over this key role.
The coordinator finds volunteers when required and organises stand-ins from a couple of relief people we have at present when a regular volunteer is unable to do their rostered shift.
The Breakfast Club coordinator checks dates on stock and organises term orders through Foodbank.
They are also responsible, with the help of the School Chaplaincy committee, for organising a Big Breakfast at the beginning of each term.
The present coordinator will be available, if required, to mentor a new coordinator for a couple of school terms to settle them in.
If no new volunteers are found, this vital school breakfast service for local students will unfortunately have to cease.
Please, we need your help.
If you can do so, please phone Max Heath on 0400 206 929.
Max J Heath
Toodyay
