 Children at Broadwater Down School help themselves to free fruit |
Primary school children across Kent and Sussex are the first in the South East to be given free fruit as part of a �5m government project. Thousands of pieces of fruit were delivered to schools - much of it produced by local farmers.
The scheme, which began on Thursday, has been introduced because fewer than one in 10 pupils in the South East eat five portions of fruit and veg a day.
The findings came from food diaries kept in 10 Kent schools in September.
Children at Broadwater Down School in Tunbridge Wells were among those to get the fruit at morning break.
Headteacher Jane Florey said: "It is a very long morning for a child.
"They get up at 6.30am and have to survive until 12 o'clock.
"If they have a piece of fruit it keeps their brain levels up."
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