A NEW breakfast café at Ross High School is providing students with a positive start to the day.

The initiative was launched on August 26, shortly after school returned from summer holidays, and is open to all pupils from 8am to 8.30am every day.

Available free of charge is a choice of toast, bagels, crumpets with butter and/or jam, as well as orange or apple juice.

The food is provided by charity Magic Breakfast, which works across England and Scotland to help end child hunger, and a donation from East Lothian Educational Trust helped to make this resource available in the school.

The breakfast café has been a welcome addition to the Ross High community, with about 70 schoolchildren attending each morning.

Any leftover toasted products are offered to pupils to take away if they are running late.

The school’s additional support needs provision has also benefited from the project by receiving bread, crumpets, cereal and UHT milk, which means it has food available whenever needed.

Nicky Bidder, principal teacher of equity, who set up the initiative, said: “It has been fantastic to see so many pupils turn up every morning and enjoy their breakfast with their friends.

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“I am unbelievably thankful to the staff and senior pupils who have volunteered to help out each morning.

“It is great to see the Ross High School community coming together to support all of our pupils. I am most certainly 'Proud to be Ross'."