Breakfast Club at Castlepark Primary School gives pupils a settled start to their school day with fun activities and a healthy nutrious breakfast. The Breakfast Club runs each morning with healthy options for Breakfast followed by activities such as sports games, arts and crafts and board games.

Castlepark Primary School Parent Council are applying for £1000 of funding to support the daily running of Breakfast Club. The funding will purchase new resources for Breakfast Club along with food to support the provision for the school year. 

Breakdown of Costs

£150 - Resources/games/toys

£850 - Food provision for Breakfast Club

The funds would allow the school to pay for the sports coaches expenses to run 2 sessions per week for the next three school terms. These sessions would begin in October and run from 3pm – 4pm. 

We wish to continue with the success of the football afterschool club for girls and boys from Primary 5-7, this club would run for the rest of the academic year.  The funds would allow us to pay for transport to take the football team to upcoming tournaments which are organised by North Ayrshire Council Active Schools. We would add to our exsiting sports kit to allow the children to be identified and part of the team. 

We would use some of the fund to pay a netball coach to establish a netball after school club.  Following consultation with the pupils from St. Palladius’ Primary this was a sport that the children showed a high level of interest in.  Netball tournaments are organised by north Ayrshire council and the funds would enable us to pay for buses in order for the children to attend.  

Following the success of the Dance Club last session, the children are very keen to continue this.  The children took part in the Day of Dance last year and we woud love to provide this opportunity again. 

The school have Young Sports Leaders who have responsibility for promoting physical activity in the playground.  The children undertook training in playground games and have requested playground equipment in order to fully engage all the children in the school.  The fund would be used to purchase this equipment. The children will work closely with North Ayrshire’s Active Schools Coordinator to successfully deliver their lunchtime club, which will run each day for the rest of the academic year.

Physical and mental health and wellbeing is always at the heart of St. Palladius’ agenda.  Afterschool sports clubs are an excellent way to engage children in physical activity and improve their health and mental well-being.  Exposing children to sports and physical activity in an afterschool environment encourages them to explore the sport in the community and strengthens the pathways into the sport.  It is hoped that that the afterschool club will encourage more children to participate in sport and thus increase their physical fitness.  Due to the cost of living crisis, after school clubs are the only opportunity that some children have to participate in sports. 

Through this fund we wish to improve aspects of fitness, and develop personal and interpersonal skills and attributes.  We want to enable learners to develop the concepts and skills necessary for participation in a wide range of physical activity, sport and outdoor learning and enhance their physical wellbeing in preparation for leading a fulfilling, active and healthy lifestyle.

The school’s Young Sports Leaders (Primary 6 and 7 pupils) are involved in this application through providing their opinion on the after school clubs they wish to have established. The have selected the equipment needed for their lunchtime ‘Playground Games’ club. 

Sports equipment - £300

School sports kit - £200

Coaches' expenses - £200

Buses to sporting events - £300

TOTAL - £1000

The project is to fund a whole school trip for the all the pupils who attend Dreghorn Primary School, this includes the EYC, ESR pupils and pupils in Primaries 1-7. We want to provide an fun local outdoor trip for Summer Term 2024  which will consolidate and enhance the learning from within the school environment and make memories that will last a lifetime.

In the spirit of collaboration and in support for the Community Wealth Building approach we are in discussions with local Ayrshire companies to arrange a suitable venue that can accommodate the whole school group paying particular attention to the additional requirements for our pupils within our ESR.

The cost of the whole school trip is split into 2 parts 

1) Transportation of pupils - buses. Approx cost £500. We want to endorse North Ayrshire Community Wealth Building approach and support local transport businesses within North Ayrshire.

2) Venue cost - covering the cost of the pupils, carers and as the risk assessment  states the  required teacher/helper  to child ratio cost.  Approx cost £500.

The reason we are applying for Youth PB this time is to help people during this cost of living crisis and help young people in the Garnock Valley who are affected by food poverty. 

We are applying for funding to stock up the kitchen cupboards in our project with food for the youth groups that run in the Garnock Valley. Such as ourselves the Youth Forum, Dalry P7 transition group, Kilbirnie P7 transition group and the S1 post transition groups. Each group would benefit  from nutritional and filling snacks and meals. Some particpants may not have much food at home due to the cost of living crisis and food poverty in the area. Particpants might also not have the time to go home afterschool and eat before the groups due to transport issues within the area or because the group starts straight afterschool so they rely on the food provided within the group to fill them up. 

We would do a bulk order through a local supplier each month such as Reids and the food would be distributed at each group.

A rough breakdown of costs would be;

£200 for frozen food such as Burgers, burger rolls and pizzas. 

£400 for perishable goods that would be bought weekly such as salad, fruit, vegetables and cheese. 

£175 for Pasta, pasta sauces, cooking sauces, hotdogs and bread rolls. 

£50 for diliuting and fruit juices.

£175 for other food items for young people with dietry requirements.

We would like to apply for the full amount we can £1000 so that we can provide food for as long as possible to each group. 

multi sports 6 metre net x 3 - £375, bazooka pop up football goals x 2 - £300, new footballs £80, new handballs x 8 - £120, bouldering crash matt £125.