Gut-busting 5m meals eaten by Vic students

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published June 29, 2018

It's often said breakfast is the most important meal of the day and Victorian students are proving the point, with five million at-school morning meals making them hungry to learn.

MELBOURNE, June 29 - School breakfast program figures, released on Friday, show the Victorian government forked out 569,000kg of food to ...

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