Nine New Schools, Three New Teachers

Wow! What a couple of weeks it has been!

When I started running a few cookery classes for friends and neighbours a couple of years ago, my aim was that other children would be inspired to cook nutritious food from scratch in the same way that I hoped my own would.

Well, we are now certainly on the way to achieving that goal and Little Cooks continues to reach out into new schools and clubs through our after-school programme and pre-school workshops. And this September has seen a significant boost to our footprint as we have signed up with nine new schools across Oxford and Bucks.

Having so many schools on the Little Cooks roster inevitably means I can no longer teach at the majority of the schools myself and so I have therefore spent much of the summer holidays finding and training three new teachers to continue to spread the Little Cooks ethos. Not only has this meant gaining the relevant accreditation including CRB, Food Safety and Hygiene and Environmental Health, but also taking each of the teachers through what it means to be a Little Cooks teacher and what makes a Little Cooks class so special.

Now we are up and running with the new term I am really pleased with our widened teaching group and I am sure our new younger cooks have hours of fun, inspirational cooking ahead of them.