Year 4 and 5 students have been very busy this term learning lots of new skills and cooking delicious recipes using fresh produce they’ve grown and harvested in our Kitchen Garden.

This term Year 4 students have learnt about food safety, safe knife handling skills and practised the following techniques while preparing fruits and vegetables from the garden: the bridge, bear claw, rock and chop techniques. They have also learnt to identify many fruits and vegetables and prepared them in a variety of recipes. It is so lovely to see students enthusiastically tasting new dishes and flavours with their peers. This is what pleasurable food education is all about!

Year 5 students are building on the skills learnt so far in the program with recipes that are more complicated and challenging. All classes are rising to the challenge with great enthusiasm and having lots of fun in the process! Students are making lots of cross curricular links while learning in the Kitchen with Science, Maths, English, Jewish studies and so much more!

Volunteers are make such a valuable contribution to our program. It’s such great way to observe student learning in action. We are so appreciative to all those who have volunteered their time to help in our Kitchen and Garden classes so far this term. Parents, grandparents, family and friends are all welcome to sign up! If you’d like to join one of our classes, please click on the VOLUNTEERS tab at the top of the home page.