Get Cooking
There are lots of benefits to cooking with children, the main benefit being that cooking is fun! Allowing your child to support cooking at home will also benefit other areas of development such as confidence, problem solving, following instructions, creativity and physical skills such as fine motor and eye-hand coordination.
Cooking allows for a practical opportunity to apply skills linked to the curriculum in many ways, for example:
Maths - when cooking, we weigh ingredients and use timers
Literacy - reading and writing recipes, writing taste reviews
Science - observing the changes that are taking place
How to safely cut food
​When preparing food, it is important to do so safely. Please watch the clips below to learn more about the 'The Bridge Hold' and 'The Claw Grip' which are techniques that we learn and use at school. Encourage your child to use the same grip if they are helping you at home.
The Claw Grip
Resources
Get Cooking!
Last year, we teamed up with our catering company Pabulum in order to give the children the opportunity to produce a vegetarian dish that appeared on our menu in the summer term. Why don't you have a go at cooking one of the delicious entries from below?
- Nursery - Dot's muffins
- Nursery - Olivia Dish
- Reception - Danvir's Veggie Rice
- Reception - Stella's leek and pea quiche
- Year 1 - Otis' Magic Curry
- Year 1 & 3 -Arlo and Otis Stir Fry
- Year 2 - Ava's spiced rolls
- Year 2 - Ella's potato and carrot soup
- Year 2 - Green Macaroni Cheese by Delia and Nerys
- Year 2 - Adanna's Courgette and cheese croquetas with tomato bread
- Year 2 - Arthur's Minecraft bread and red soup
- Year 2 - Nina's recipe
- Year 2 - Vedantika's recipe
- Year 2 - Nathan - Vegetable Pie
- Year 3 - Halloumi Burgers by Kalina
- Year 3 - Elizabeth's Healthy Falafel with Pita Bread
- Year 3 - Mathias
- Year 3 - Dylan's recipe
- Year 3 - Marcell's garlic spinach sauce
- Year 3 - Renee's Empanada
- Year 3 - Rex's macaroni cheese
- Year 3 - Ruben's Recipe
- Year 3 - Jasmin & Simran's stuffed parathas
- Year 3 - Nell's Pesto Pasta
- Year 4 - Bridget's competition recipe
- Year 4 - Cinnamon puffs By Elspeth
- Year 4 - Erin's veggie bolognese
- Year 4 - Krystal's veggie surprise
- Year 4 - Angelika's recipe
- Year 4 - Angelina's Gnocchi & tomato bake
- Year 4 - George
- Year 4 - Anishka- Potatoes and Peas Bhuna
- Year 4 - Bay's Leek and Garlic Mushroom Pasta
- Yr 4 Eban's -No Cheese’ Butternut Squash Mac
- Year 4 - Maryam's Green Gnocchi
- Year 5 & 1 - Jamila and Zayan's - green lentils and spinach in tomato sauce
- Year 5 - Zoe's recipe
- Year 5 - April's vegetarian meal
- Year 5 - the mediterranean dish by Yousef
- Year 6 - Ella - courgette muffins
- Year 6 - Montgomery - Cooking Competition - veggie lasagna
- Year 6 - Ada - Cooking Competition - butternut squash soup
- Year 6 - Bode - Cooking Competition - Chilli NON carne
- Year 6 - Connor's Noodles
- Year 6 - Oliver's Veggie Dish - Veggie Enchilada
- Year 6 - Wilhelmina's Cuban rice
- Year 6 - Alex's Rocky Road
- Year 6 - Luka - Cooking Competition - Bean & tomato casserole with Parmesan toasts
- Year 6 - Muminah - veggie rice
- Year 6 - Yvonne - vegetable spaghetti
Cooking at home
Take a look at the links below for some tasty recipe ideas to cook at home.