The government has rolled out 750 free breakfast clubs across the nation, each located in a selected school.
These clubs offer 30 minutes of free childcare as well as a healthy breakfast for children before the school day starts.
Drapers Pyrgo Priory School in Dagnam Park Road was chosen as the only school in Havering to host a breakfast club.
Trudy Spillane, interim executive principal of the school, said: “We understand the importance of offering breakfast at the beginning of the school day for every child.
“This is free to all pupils and should support working parents and those who have a busy household in the mornings.
“The children are then settled for the start of learning and more able to focus.”
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According to the government, parents will be able to save up to 95 additional hours and £450 per year if their child attends free breakfast clubs every day.
This amount could rise to a saving of up to £8,000 every year when combining the free breakfast clubs with further support through the expansion of government-funded childcare and new school uniform cap on branded items.
“At the end of the term we will be providing feedback to the Department for Education as part of a London-wide hub.
“Hopefully it will be good news and the funding will cover the cost of staffing and provisions for all pupils, not just a select few.”
Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer described the roll out of free breakfast clubs as a “game-changing” moment for families in the UK.
“They mean parents will no longer be hamstrung by rigid school hours and have the breathing space they need to beat the morning rush, attend work meetings and doctors’ appointments, or run errands,” he said.
“And crucially, it means better life chances for children.”
