It's bacon baps week, year 6! 🥓 😋

B9exchange

Bit worried about those having a good breakfast at home and then a second one at school. Okay for a week I suppose, but we do have a problem with childhood obesity...

Given that children of this seem to go up then out then up; I noticed that my DS and both my DGS got a bit wider before they growth spurted, I was not worried as they had energy

But the school mentioned my 2nd DGS was putting on weight and he stopped eating to the point I WAS worried - you could count his ribs!

Girls have always had a puppy fat stage - time to worry is when it affects their movement. But I wonder if that is where all these new stats are coming from?

Lovely idea.

It is just a few days, B9exchange, in Year 6, so is an unlikely contributor to obesity.
In my last school, I, like Cossy was aware of a number of very slim children, and worried about their nutrition.

In our village many secondary school pupils are bussed out to the next town to the comprehensive schools as we have a grammar school but no non selective school. I volunteer with a church group who make breakfast once a week for the pupils getting the busses. We give them bacon rolls or warm pain au chocolat plus fruit, hot chocolate and apple juice.
I've been doing it for many years, having started when we still had a non selective school which closed some years ago. Numbers are lower now than when I first stsrted as the cost of the coaches has increased for the parents who use them so some students are going on the train or n parents' cars. I often wonder how many of the kids would not get breakfast otherwise or whether it is an extra on top of their breakfast from home, but most of them seem appreciative.

That's a relief to know, I no longer have contact with large numbers of children, there do seem to be a fair number of less than beanstick children when we go out to a restaurant around here.

B9exchange

Bit worried about those having a good breakfast at home and then a second one at school. Okay for a week I suppose, but we do have a problem with childhood obesity...

You know that’s worth a thread all of its own.

My teacher daughter and I often laugh at this particular govt statistic, she’s in the infants.

She has two children in her class of 31 this year, she would say they are “chubby” rather than obese. She’s never had more that two in any class since she started teaching.

I was a school governor at a primary school for about 15 years, I stopped in 2015, again there really were not as my obese children as the govt would have us believe, there were some very thin children and some with appalling diets if their lunch boxes were anything to go by!

Bit worried about those having a good breakfast at home and then a second one at school. Okay for a week I suppose, but we do have a problem with childhood obesity...

Yes indeed, sounds like a great idea to get the children properly fuelled up for what are presumably important tests.

No SATS in Scotland either, Allira, but the National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers are well under way for the 4th, 5th and 6th Years. Not too many to go now!

Well, if sounds like a good idea but they don't take SATS in Wales so no bacon baps for them.

ExaltedWombat

eazybee

Ye Gods.
Spoon fed.

Can you eat a bacon bap with a spoon?

Hold on, I'll try.

OK. Messy, but possible.

Best to stick to basics - fingers were invented before forks (or spoons).

Just try not to get ketchup on the SATS papers.

Grannynannywanny

I’ve just dropped off my grandson for the start of his Sats week. He told me on the way to school he felt excited. I foolishly thought he was looking forward to the tests. Until he put me right… no Gran the sausage bap!

How sweet! And it's great that he's not in a state about these tests.

My granddaughter's school are doing this too, but the parents have to supply the food which seems a bit pointless. She is another who has normally eats breakfast before going for the regular "free" school breakfast which is cereal or toast.

eazybee

Ye Gods.
Spoon fed.

Can you eat a bacon bap with a spoon?

Hold on, I'll try.

OK. Messy, but possible.

No sausage baps when we did breakfast for SATs fifteen years ago.
Orange juice and toast. One lad had 10 pieces of toast and chocolate spread. He had never had breakfast before he said.

What a great idea! Team building at its best. They'll all be fuelled up ready to go 👍🏻

Yes, this went down a storm when I was last teaching. Teachers of other year groups were inclined to pop into the hall and sniff the air..

My youngest GD has gone to breakfast club today with her fellow students prior to sitting their first SATS this morning. As she had to be at school earlier than normal I was awarded the dubious pleasure of gridlocked morning traffic to take her older sister to her school. Roll on Friday when the SATS are over and done with.

eazybee

Ye Gods.
Spoon fed.

?? What is your issue??

I’ve just dropped off my grandson for the start of his Sats week. He told me on the way to school he felt excited. I foolishly thought he was looking forward to the tests. Until he put me right… no Gran the sausage bap!

Ye Gods.
Spoon fed.

My kids primary school did this during Sats weeks, as well as running a “free” breakfast club normally, but the breakfast club just did toast, cereal and a drink and the Sats breakfasts were like your DGS.