For Kids Co. Cooking Club
Encouraging children to cook is not only a fun and interactive way to embed life skills; it also benefits children
by providing the building blocks for healthy eating into adulthood. Cooking together provides opportunities for
children to interact with each other and master a variety of new skills.
Aims
To provide children with the ‘know how’, whilst introducing them to a wide range of ingredients from different parts of the World, providing insight to other cultures.
Benefits
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Teaching children to cook, raises awareness of the potential hazards in the kitchen and provide them with the knowledge of how to stay safe
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Numeracy is embedded in weighing & measuring – a necessary life skill
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Literacy is embedded in following a recipe providing children with a meaningful reading comprehension exercise (younger children will be supported with this)
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Cooking helps to develop a child’s planning and time management skills
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Helps to nurture a child’s creativity about presentation.
When?
Every Friday during term time.
Where?
For Kids Co. Out of School Club,
Kingswood Halls, Kingswood Place,
Blackheath, SE13 5BU.
Cost
£20.00 with school collection from Brindishe Green, Brindishe Lee, Wingfield, St.Margaret’s, St. Matthew’s Academy or John Ball Primary Schools.
£15.00 parent/guardian drop off at 4.30pm.
(Existing contracted parents can opt children in at the usual rate by request)
Timings?
4.30pm – 6.15pm.
