A Sheffield headteacher was stunned when a pupil said she hadn’t eaten for a whole weekend because there was no food in the house.
After hearing the girl’s story, Anne Quaile, headteacher of Handsworth Grange Community Sports College, decided that students and staff should do something to help local families struggling to feed their children.
She also mentioned the issue to Clive Betts, the MP for Sheffield South East, who raised it at Prime Minister’s Question Time last month.
Ms Quaile hit on the idea of writing to parents and carers and asking for donations of non-perishable food and other essential items.
Within hours of the school’s initial appeal, 300 tins and jars – everything from baked beans and cereal to pasta and Christmas puddings – had been handed over.
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