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Breakfast provision allows staff to build positive relationships with pupils out of the classroom and this seeps into the classroom. From a staff point of view, this is a great support.”

We have several parents now able to access work or training opportunities. Parents say they are more comfortable sometimes talking to staff in a more informal setting when they drop children off.”

We had a young student that was consistently late to school most mornings, he came in with a foul mood as he had been arguing with Mum most of the morning as she wanted him in school on time. He used to eat breakfast at home. He now eats breakfast at school, this allows him an extra 15 minutes in the mornings to wake up slower and he has a more positive time in the morning with Mum and arrives to school with a much better attitude knowing he will have something to eat when he arrives.

Mum is very grateful and has said to staff on multiple occasions ‘he’s a completely different boy and I don’t have to argue with him every morning to get him up, dressed and food in his belly.’”

On one of my recent school visits I was lucky enough to meet Miss Maggie. Miss Maggie has been running the breakfast club at St John’s CE Primary School for 20 years. She has helped thousands of children over the years.

Miss Maggie is gold dust, not only to Magic Breakfast but also to our community as a whole. So many schools have a ‘Miss Maggie’ and I personally feel humbled and forever in debt to them all for what they do, relentlessly, every day, to give our children a wonderful start to the day.

To all of the Miss Maggies out there, your dedication is extraordinary and without you, Magic Breakfast wouldn’t be able to do what we do.”