Cooking with the Children

Our weekly planned cookery sessions with the pre-school group, The Brook, are extremely polular with the children!

Called, The Brook Cooks, the children have the opportunity to read recipes, measure, stir, shake and bake their way through a wide variety of foods. Every week, The Brook make a dish that their friends at Nursery can enjoy. Even better, the children always take a sample home so that parents can have a try too (if the children are willing to share, that is!)

We are passionate about food and devoted to helping the children to experience a wide range of tastes, flavours and textures. Giving the children the opportunity to cooks assists them with important literacy and numeracy skills, helps them to learn how to support each other by working as a team to create something and also - perhaps most importantly - encourages them to try things they might not otherwise. When a child makes and child tries, in our experience.

The children also grow their own food in our vegetable patch and make their own compost in our wormery.

Our Brook Cooks have made:

• Tomato and Cucumber Salsa
• Red Pepper Tapenade
• Cinnamon and Raisin Buns
• Ice cream
• Harissa
• Braided Bread Rolls
• Cheesy Scones
• Snickerdoodle Cookies

Amongst a great variety of other dishes!