Health 201 students are busy preparing to run a Breakfast Club in Term 2. Student Bree Keenan-Dwan tells us why they are doing this and how it will work.

Our Year 12 Health class is in the process of completing an achievement standard by taking action to enhance an aspect of people’s well being within the school or wider community. 

We have decided to take action by running a Breakfast Club every Friday for nine weeks, as we have found from recent surveys completed by students of Upper Hutt College, that breakfast isn’t something that most students have every morning. 

A question that was included in the survey asked students how they feel when they don’t have breakfast, and in our results found negative feelings like tired, grumpy or moody, low energy levels and unmotivated. 

We believe that breakfast has a very important role on students’ hauora (wellbeing) and the way they act, especially at school. So by offering the Breakfast Cub every Friday we believe, and are hopeful, that students who join us will see the positive effects of having breakfast on their moods and throughout the day at school, and will take action themselves by eating breakfast more often.

We will be offering free weetbix and milo. So please come along to our Breakfast Club starting the first week back of Term 2 on Friday from 7:45-8:30am in Te Manawa! We would love to see as many people as possible there!