Early yesterday morning Fay Yeng from Chartwells transformed the hall into a studio style cooking area! Year 6 to Year 9 pupils started pouring into the hall to learn more about food groups and healthy eating.
Fay discussed the most important meal of the day, breakfast and moved on to the main food groups. She guided the pupils to break all food down in the four food groups; carbohydrates, protein, fruits and vegetables and diary and discussed their nutritional values. Fay continued to discuss with them how to measure out one portion of their five a day, explained what a balanced diet was and how important it was to have one.
With all of these important information covered it was time for the cook off between the two teams. There was a Red Team which cooked with fish and the Green team which cooked a vegetarian dish. There was one teacher and two pupils in each team. The Red Team had to cook Thai Fishcakes and 5 spiced noodles and the Green Team cauliflower and chickpea curry and spiced couscous.
Red Team: Mr Botha, Damon – Year 6, Beth – Year 8.
Green Team: Mrs Cooper, Max – Year 7, Tanisha – Year 8.
Faye got everyone to start the countdown. ’On your marks, get set, COOK!
The two teams had only 15 minutes to cook their meals. While the clock was ticking, Fay called groups of pupils up to inspect their preparation and cooking skills.
The 15 minutes flew passed and in the last few seconds both teams had to dish up their meals and display on the table. After a taster session of both meals the crowd and staff decided that the Red Team cooked the tastiest meal. Fay Yeng was amazing and it was a fun and memorable way of learning about healthy eating, cooking skills and health and safety in the kitchen. A big thanks to Chartwells. It was a great start to our week.
