Jenkins County School food service celebrates National Breakfast Week

National School Breakfast Week is March 5-9, and Jenkins County School Food Service is inviting parents and guardians to eat breakfast with their child(ren) at the elementary school cafeteria.

The school breakfast program began as a pilot program in 1966 and was made permanent in 1975. National School Breakfast Week is designed to help raise awareness of and garner support for the role that school food service and nutrition programs play in the lives of America's children today and in the strength of America tomorrow.

Children who eat breakfast perform better on standardized tests, make fewer trips to the nurse's and principal's office and get better grades. Eating breakfast also helps reduce obesity and increases the nutritional intake. The National School Breakfast Program (NSBP) has served the nation through advanced practices and nutrition education; and the NSBP is dedicated to the health and well-being of the nation's children.

Parent/guardian invitation dates for the elementary school are as follows: Tuesday, March 6 - kindergarten, second and fourth grades; Friday, March 9 - pre-k, third and fourth grades. Breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m. Pre-k eats at 8:15 a.m.

The cost of an adult breakfast is $1.50. For further information, contact Debra Herrmann at the board of education or Allison Dann at the elementary cafeteria.