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Celebrity TV chef launches


School Cooks competition


CELEBRITYCHEF Simon Rimmer, who co-presents BBC’s ‘Something For TheWeekend’ programme, recently launched at a Liverpool boys’ school, in association with www.eatthechef. com, School Cooks – a competition to find the country’s next new young cooking sensation.


cook, said: “I’m launching School Cooks because I want children to


Simon, who taught himself to


have a go at cooking. One of the great pleasures you can have is to start with a set of raw ingredients and end up with something you can eat with your family or friends. It’s very important. I want boys and girls to start cooking – and I want them to go home and challenge their mums and dad to have a go too.” Key Stage 3 students (Year 8)


are being asked to create a video of themselves cooking a dish – just like a TV chef – and the videos will be uploaded to www.schoolcooks.co.uk Each school will then run their own marketing and PR campaign for votes and the video with the most votes will be entered into a regional final. The winning young chef from


each of the six regions in the UK will be entered into a national cook-off final in front of judge


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Boys fromWest Derby School, Liverpool, at the launch of theSchoolCookscompetition, together with Gary Evans (left) deputy head, and Simon Rimmer.


Simon Rimmer to take place in Speke, Liverpool, next year. The winning school will be presented with £10,000-worth of cooking equipment and there will be individual prizes for all twelve finalists. Simon will also be running a


for a new cooking star, School Cooks will be offering schools who


cookery master class on final day with all twelve finalists. As well as launching the search


take part a complete set of lesson plans with resources. These plans, which have been specially devised by an assistant headteacher, fit in with the Key Stage 3 Personal, Social, Health and Economics (PSHE) curriculum. PSHE education equips children


grow up. Through the School Cooks campaign, children will be encouraged to think about the quality of food they eat, how it is


and young people with the knowledge and skills to deal with a range of issues they face as they


cooked and dispel excuses for eating pre-packed food. Lesson plan topics in the project


include nutrition, safety, careers education and work-related learning. Children will look at social networking and the rights and responsibilities involved, how to create a video, health and safety in the kitchen, the basics of getting a balanced diet and the ingredients that go into cooking, plus they will analyse the rise in the popularity of cooking programmes. Gary Evans, deputy headteacher


atWest Derby School, which is the first school in Liverpool to be completely rebuilt and will be offering food technology for the first time in the school’s history, said: “Cooking is about to become very important to our pupils. It’s all about engaging students in a positive way and challenging them to think about the quality of the food they eat.” PSHE co-ordinators from each school will register on the


INTERESTING FOOD EDUCATION FACTS lThe average Briton can only cook tenmeals without the help of a recipe. l Spaghetti Bolognese is the singular most popular recipe people know by heart with 65%of people able to cook it without any help. lA roast dinner can be confidently cooked by 54%of the nation. l Despite it being the nation’s favourite dish, only 25%of people can cook a curry from scratch. l British cooks own an average of five recipe books. l 171 million cookbooks are sold each year – 65 million will never be opened. l Out of 1,000 recipes held by each household, only 35 of themwill ever be attempted.


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www.schoolcooks.co.uk website and receive access to a range of educational resources which will form the basis of their PSHE lessons. Through these lessons students


will also be encouraged to register on www.schoolcooks.co.uk for their own access to information which will support their homework, as well as quizzes and online questionnaires. Students will be encouraged to


upload their videos at any point from September – any video content of children which is uploaded will only be visible to members of that school and is inaccessible to the public. By 1 December, schools will


decide on one video which best represents their school and reflects what the school has learned through the course of their PSHE lessons. The winner of this internal competition will go on to represent the school at the nationwide public vote on www.eatthechef.com Schools will then be


encouraged to run their own campaign for votes across their community. Students and teachers will download press releases, flyers, emails and will promote their school as much as possible. The school with the most votes


in their region will be entered into the final. Each of these schools could win a Belling oven for their school and a visit from Simon Rimmer.


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