Breakfast the best meal of the day

A headteacher is praising breakfast clubs for helping to get her students ready for the day, after overcoming challenges in setting up the provision.

Shirley Carrigan, who runs Co-op Academy Grove in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, said: "The children are ready to start bang on 8.20, they are much more settled and ready to learn."

She said staffing, preparation time and the amount of food needed had been among the challenges the school faced in the first year of the scheme.