Our Kitchen Classroom

Our pioneering kitchen classroom was opened in March 2009 with the aim of delivering new cooking skills and healthy eating knowledge to the children while using the kitchen to enhance the core curriculum. Thought to be a first for a primary school in the UK, the purpose built kitchen can accommodate up to 10 children being taught at a time, sharing six cookers, all under the stewardship of our specialist cookery consultant, Kate Kilburn.

Delicious meals such as leek & smoked haddock risotto, followed by pancakes with apples in a fudge sauce, or Orford Butcher’s spring lamb chops with a honey dipping sauce, baton carrots, croquette potatoes, and then chocolate roulade, are typical of what the children tackle in their cookery lessons, before sitting down and eating what they have prepared. Taking home the recipe of the day, many of the children have gone on to demonstrate their new found cooking skills at home!

At both the 2009 and 2010 Aldeburgh Food Festival events children from the school held a cookery demonstration, highlighting the skills gained from their lessons.

Download recipes from our kitchen

Spring lamb chops with honey dipping sauce, baton carrots, croquette potatoes followed by chocolate roulade

Smoked salmon tartlets, roasted new potatoes, asparagus. Baked vanilla and lemon cheesecake with raspberries

Butternut squash soup with toasted sunflower seeds and croutons, cheese scones, scotch eggs. Mini choclate puddings

Gressingham duck breast with orange and honey sauce, duchess potatoes, roasted pumpkin and carrot followed by individual apple crumble

 


Our kitchen classroom featured in The Independent:  'Why cooking should be on the primary school menu' (link)