Adults queue from 3am to get children into breakfast club
MORE than 130 parents queued from 3am to enrol their children in a breakfast club. Places at the early morning club are limited and the school operates its annual sign-up on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Annett Farrow, 69, a grandmother, left her home in Carmarthen, west Wales, at 1am to secure her place in the queue. She said: “My son and daughter-in-law are on holiday so we had to come.
“If it gets them a place it will have been worth it. We have bought biscuits and crisps – the only problem is the toilets. We have been using the toilets in the hotel opposite.”
The 400-pupil primary school in Cardiff, called Ysgol Y Berllan Deg, sends a letter out to parents to alert them to the sign-up date.
The breakfast club is a Welsh Government initiative that provides a free, healthy breakfast at school each day, before scheduled lessons start.
Leanne Taylor, who arrived at the school at around 3am, said: “If I drop them off at 8.30 I won’t be getting into work until 10 because of the traffic.
“If I didn’t have this I would not be able to go to work – I can’t risk not getting a place, I don’t have a plan B.”