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A gas outage at Richmond Hill Primary School in Leeds in 2014 led a head teacher to embark on a campaign to combat hunger and poor nutrition. Nathan Atkinson says his ‘lightbulb moment’ for Fuel for School came on the first day back after the half-term holiday, when children were given sandwiches and crisps because the kitchen was out of action.
‘Their behaviour all afternoon was terrible,’ he explains. ‘My philosophy is that beha
viour is a form of communication, so I sat down with the children and asked what was going on.
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