Noble Park Primary School

Noble Park Primary School was established in 1911 and has seen many changes since that time. While the School Breakfast Clubs Program hasn’t been running since the beginning, it has been running successfully for many years.

Sustainability is the key

The team at Noble Park Primary School are focused on ensuring the Breakfast Club continues to be sustainable. They are recycling everything they can and concentrate on reducing waste too.

Each morning, five days a week, the team is busy cooking toast and pouring milk into cups, preparing a healthy breakfast for around 50 students every day. The best part is that there is only the washing up to do at the end of breakfast, with minimal rubbish produced.

How do they have no waste?

The school decided to keep costs and waste down by simply handing the toast to the students without a plate or napkin. While the team was unsure if this would work, they were very pleased to see that there were no longer white napkins dropped throughout the school.

The school also decided to move away from the mini-milks to the one litre milk containers and invested in low cost reusable cups at the same time. This decision allowed the Breakfast Club team to distribute milk in cups, and again reduce the rubbish that the mini-milks had been causing in the school yard on occasion.

An unexpected outcome of these decisions was that students did not miss a beat! They consumed just as much breakfast as before, while learning how to clean up after breakfast. When the students are finished with their cups, they put them into a bucket for cleaning. While the Breakfast Club team are currently washing the cups, there are plans to enlist some students to do this job down the track.

What else is in store at Noble Park Primary School?

The school is working towards providing a sit down breakfast with more options for the students. Since the pandemic, the Breakfast Club program has operated as a grab-and-go service, however there are plans to move with the Breakfast Club to a space where students can sit down to eat and engage in conversations with their staff and their friends.

Providing a space where the students can sit down to eat and engage in conversations with staff and their friends. Providing a space where the students can prepare themselves for the day, while having a nutritious breakfast is important at Noble Park Primary School.

Testimonials

“Breakfast club means so much to our students. Yes, there is food, but is is also a time for connection and community. It is a wonderful and positive way for us to start every school day.

Julia Chapman | Disability and Inclusion Community Liaison