Our kitchen produces all the food which is freshly prepared each day, and sold in our café.
Our students benefit from working in a small commercial kitchen to create a variety of sweet and savoury treats.
The targeted learning for our students is focused on:
- Kitchen safety; based on each student’s ability they learn what is safe and unsafe, in a potentially hazardous environment, including which surfaces and items can be hot as well as working with knives.
- Personal hygiene; learning the importance of washing hands (even more important as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic), wearing gloves and wearing an apron.
- Food hygiene; understanding best-before dates, learning basic food preparation including washing, the different methods of storing various food groups and the avoidance of cross contamination during food preparation.
- Food recognition.
- Recipes; learning the recipes for the items sold in our café.
- Cooking; learning basic techniques including peeling, chopping, mixing, measuring and some simple baking.
- Washing-up and cleaning - yes, those jobs everyone hates!