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, with the added benefit of some cross curricular learning. 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 the 2009 Aldeburgh Food Festival, four pupils from the School went up on stage, in front of a huge audience, to demonstrate their cooking skills and talk about the very exciting kitchen classroom project we have at Orford School. |   |