An Overview

BACKGROUND

Recently the Government announced a School Lunch Scheme. Children in 30 primary and intermediate schools will begin receiving a free lunch every school day from term one next year. The lunch programme will initially roll out to all year 1-8 pupils in 30 schools that will be part of a trial, extending to 21,000 children in 120 schools by the beginning of 2021.

Our young people miss out in this Government initiative because we are a Secondary School.

In a recent student survey, we discovered that over 90% of our students regularly only eat once per day. For some of them, that one meal may be instant noodles or Weet-Bix. We were surprised by the results of our survey and wanted to do something to support our young people and our whānau. We know that young people can’t learn when they are hungry. We have decided not to wait for the government to roll their scheme out into Secondary Schools and initiate a new lunch scheme from the beginning of 2020.

All Kia Aroha College students will be provided with lunch every day in 2020