Schoolgirls Breakfast with the Stars

What is it?

An annual breakfast for Grade 9 girls where they have the opportunity to meet with past and current female role models in various fields of endeavour and reflect on their own aspirations.

Why Have Breakfast With The Stars?

Womensport and Recreation Tasmania Inc is an organization that is focused on encouraging young women to be healthy and active.  Good role models and regular motivation help us all to achieve a good lifestyle throughout adult life.

The organisation encourages young women and girls to continue participating in sport and physical exercise after they leave primary school and to stay fit and healthy.  Often young women become very body conscious when they move on to high school and they tend to seek excuses why they should not participate in sporting activities.  Unless this trend can be reversed it will contribute to the growing chronic diseases problem in Australia.

One of the events planned and conducted by Womensport and Recreation Tasmania is Breakfast With the Stars.  This consists of a light healthy breakfast for young women and their mentors who have been nominated by their secondary school or college.  Each girl is invited to bring along a woman of significance in her life, for example, a mother, aunt, grandmother, coach or simply someone who has encouraged her in sporting activities.

Womensport and Recreation Tasmania has developed a kit to assist communities and organisations to plan and run their own Schoolgirl's Breakfast. The kit leads you through all the planning stages from deciding to hold the event to its completion in 6 months time and includes follow-up surveys to help evaluate the effectiveness of the event.