Our daytime cookery clubs are especially for young people who can attend during the days in mainstream school term time.

Thursday mornings Kids Clubs are for 8-11 year olds – a fun introduction to cooking techniques and vocabulary.

Thursday afternoons Teens Clubs are for 12-16 year olds – progressing to more advanced cooking techniques and vocabulary. (Scroll down for more info).

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Day Time Kids Club

During term time, our Daytime Kids Club runs on Thursdays between 10am and 12, in a 6-week programme.

All ingredients and equipment are provided, along with snacks and refreshments.

This popular Thursday morning cookery club has several main goals, including:

• Learning valuable life skills and practicing them in a safe environment.
• Experimenting with new ingredients.
• Identifying functional preparation and cooking techniques to encourage independence when cooking at home.
• Working independently to create dishes from scratch.
• Understanding healthy eating and food safety and hygiene.
• Meeting new people and nurturing communication skills.
• Working in a team environment.
• Collecting a variety of recipes with transferrable skills.
• Creating two dishes in the weekly sessions.

Our Daytime Kids club was launched in September 2024 and is already proving very popular within the Home Education community. It covers:

• Fruits and vegetables, how to prepare and cook and incorporate with a dish and in a recipe.
• Carbohydrates, potatoes, pasta and rice
• Basic breads, naan, bread rolls and pitta
• Traybakes, selection of basic cakes and biscuits.
• Basic sauces: tomato, white sauce and velouté
• Identifying cookery methods of frying, baking, steaming, and boiling.

It’s a natural progression from Daytime Kids to our Daytime Teens Cookery club.

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Day Time Teens Club

Thursday afternoons are for 12-16 year olds.

During term time, our Day Time Teens Club runs on Thursdays between 1 and 3pm, in a 6-week programme.

All ingredients and equipment are provided, along with snacks and refreshments.

The Teens Club is a perfect progression from the Thursday morning Kids Club. If you’re completing the Duke of Edinburgh Award this class is great for the skills section!

The 6-week programme focuses on advancing practical cookery skills from fundamental techniques to more complex knife skills and technical recipes.

We cover:

• A wide range of food groups
• Use of a wide variety of ingredients
• Professional chef techniques and terminology
• A diverse selection of both sweet and savoury dishes from all over the world.
• A range of cookery methods both on the stovetop and in the oven.

Sample Dishes include:

• Doughs: basic and enriched, from bread rolls to croissants
• Pastry: sweet and savoury pastries, from tarts to pasties
• Pasta: dried pasta and fresh pasta (from scratch)
• Rice: risottos, rice stews and arancini
• Desserts: varied traybakes, biscuits and cheesecakes
• Meat and poultry: beef, lamb, pork, and chicken dishes (fried, baked and stewed with accompanying sauces)
• Dietary dishes: gluten-free, plant-based, vegetarian

Our Daytime Teens club is a great introduction to further education in Hospitality and catering.

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