Small amount of money students spend at school.

[Odessa Dawn]

What is the term referring to small amount of money parents giving their children to spend at school to buy breakfast, please?

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[tzfujimino]

Hello, Odessa.:-D

I think this is the word you are looking for: http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/allowance

Or 'pocket money', probably.

I hope my response will be of some help to you.

 

[MikeNewYork]

What is the term referring to small amount of money parents giving their children to spend at school to buy breakfast, please?

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In AmE we would normally call that an "allowance".

 

[5jj]

In BrE, 'pocket money' or an 'allowance' is usually a fixed sum of money parents give their children weekly or monthly.

If parents give their children a sum of money for a specific purpose, it is usually 'dinner money' for the midday meal commonly known as 'school dinner'. Now that some primary schools are serving breakfast, I guess (sorry, I don't know) that money for this is called 'breakfast money'.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm in the same position as 5jj here - I would have to guess that it might be called breakfast money. When I was at school, schools did not serve breakfast. They served lunch/dinner (the name of the meal at around noon depending on which part of the country you were in) and at break time there was a small kiosk selling crisps, chocolate etc.

The money you had for the noon meal was "lunch money" or "dinner money" and money you were given for a snack at break time was "tuck money". This was because the little kiosk in almost all schools was known as the "tuck shop".

In my case, I only took tuck money because my parents always paid for a whole term of my school dinners in advance so I didn't take dinner money in.