Campaign helps boost breakfast in schools

School cafeterias nationwide will be transformed into rocket launch pads and students will be writing and sharing their creative short stories about how nutritious school breakfasts are. Children will be served special breakfast menus featuring Blast Off Burrito with Rocket Wedges, and Molten Space Cereal with Asteroids and Space Dust to stage the importance of breakfast meals. During this week, many schools are offering breakfast at no cost to students. It has been proven that children who eat breakfast at school score better in standardized tests, have fewer health issues, and behave better in class. The School Nutrition Association is a national, non-profit professional organisation which represents more than 55,000 members who provide low-cost meals to students across the country. National School Breakfast Week runs from 3-7 March. The campaign began in November 2007 and runs until the end of this month.