THE SIBFORDIAN 2018 O


ur fantastic newly-refurbished food room, which opened at


the start of the academic year, has really set a high standard for this year’s Food Preparation and Nutrition classes.


Junior School pupils in Year 6, right through to our Sixth Form students, use the room each week.


Activities have included: • Exploring food hygiene, trying out recipes and learning how to use ingredients and subject specific equipment (Year 6);


• Focusing on healthy eating, investigating Festival Food, discovering where food comes from and learning how food choice is affected by culture, religion and family (Year 7);


• Looking at different nutrients, seasonal produce, the implications of dietary excess or deficiency and working out how to adapt a recipe to suit a specific need or consumer group (Year 8); and


• Focusing on digestion and specific diets, such as vegan, coronary heart disease and obesity in preparation for the new GCSE course (Year 9).


Dishes created by pupils have included French fougasse, English crumble, Irish


Focus on food


Year 8 students brought in some pheasants and took over the roll of teacher, showing their peers how to pluck, prepare and cook them ready for eating.


soda bread, Chinese spring rolls and Italian pizza … which was cooked in the outdoor oven. We have made mini quiches, flapjack, fruit and vegetables crisps, mini burgers, scones (both savoury and sweet), coleslaw, homemade gluten free ‘Pot Noodle’, tomato sauce, rough puff sausage rolls, curry and naan, risotto, chicken nuggets and cheesecake. Pupils have also learnt some lifelong skills including filleting a fish, jointing a chicken and making home-made pasta.


We have also enjoyed some quirky extras like the Inter-House Bug Eating Competition, a gifted and talented knife skills workshop, lunchtime Creative Cooking Class, World Cup imported food knockout and some ‘flip learning’ … where two


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All in all, it has been an exciting, inspiring and fun year in the food room and I hope parents and guardians have all enjoyed some samples to taste and some enthusiastic children wanting to share their cookery talents at home.


Emma Crocker Head of Food Preparation and Nutrition


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