Food fun with a twist (From Malvern Gazette)
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Food fun with a twist
1:14pm Friday 7th May 2010 in News
Naz Sanderson from Red Hen Cookery with Isaac Oakley and Emily Watkins
PUPILS at the Wyche Primary School were cooking up a storm this week as they enjoyed a food workshop with a twist.
As part of the school’s cookery curriculum, Year Three and Four pupils undertook two hands-on lessons with new Malvern-based company Red Hen Cookery.
The pupils were divided into small groups and challenged to firstly create banana and chocolate-chip muffins with Fair Trade ingredients and then pasta in a garlic sauce with fresh vegetables, grown locally at a Worcestershire farm.
All the food was then individually boxed so that the boys and girls could take it home to eat and enjoy later.
“Cookery lends itself perfectly to a child-led programme of learning. We find the pupils respond well to this medium and are excited to be involved,” said Naz Sanderson of Red Hen.
School head Geoff Rutherford said: "Not only did the children thoroughly enjoy the workshops but they also fitted perfectly within the current curriculum.”
