Classroom to Kitchen is a new project seeking to marinate the minds of kids. We want children to learn the fun way, the key skills of life which are needed outside the classroom. We have teamed up with some of the best restaurants so lets get cooking.
About Classroom to Kitchen
Imagine your students eating salads in the playground that they prepared at home rather than sugary convenience food and drinks. Visualise them boasting proudly how to prepare a Christmas Dinner. Picture parents at the school gates gleefully telling of how they are eating vegetables they would have refused previously. Imagine an empowered child full of knowledge about food and healthy eating making healthier and broader choices. The Classroom to Kitchen experience brings your school closer to this reality by delivering unparalleled culinary education.
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In the modern time constrained world, families are not eating together and children lack an awareness of where their food comes from. Bad food choices impact their health short term and for decades to come.
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WHY CHOOSE US?
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The primary school years are the most critical age to create real, powerful change through food education. We change unhealthy eating habits and negative relationships with food by equipping students with the knowledge and skills to choose and prepare healthier meals. This is the most effective and practical food education programme out there today as we bring lessons to life in a hands on interactive way. Students will at a minimum gain the essential basic food knowledge and skills that will stay with them for a lifetime. 1 in 5 children in the UK are already obese or overweight by the age of 5! 1 in 3 children are affected by childhood obesity by the age of 11! In an obesity time bomb, knowledge of healthy eating and how to cook is a mandatory life skill on par with the traditional curriculum of English and Maths.
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The cooking lessons offer the perfect medium for learning with the interactive,stimulating and rewarding learning style. Benefits are not restrained to culinary education with critical thinking skills, organisation and a systematic approach learned. Did we mention that better nutrition leads to a reduction in absences and better attainment levels!!
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WANT TO PROVE YOUR CLASS IS NO.1 IN NORTHERN IRELAND???
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With media coverage, appearances throughout our sites from local personalities, athletes, chefs and the presentation of the best class in Northern Ireland at our bake off, this is a programme you simply must have your school take part in. Many of our restaurants also give kids a free meal voucher to come back with parents to see where they have made the food.
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Until now the lessons of healthy eating and food nutrition were restricted by not having a way to cook what is preached in the classroom. Research has shown that students who dislike nutritious fruit and vegetables ate more of them after they have used them in a cooking class. It is very rare that schools have kitchens for students to use. Our programme solves this problem and has the added bonus of professional chefs leading the lessons. We get kids of all ages cooking by bringing classrooms to local restaurants and learning the means to make their own meals.
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WHY YOU NEED TO SIGN UP IMMEDIATELY
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Visualise the anticipation and excitement of your class of children before their first cooking lesson,gaining a positive experience and relationship with food at a crucial early age. However this is much more than just a school trip; it is a project backed by theory and research that will massively impact the health of the children and wider community for generations to come. As teachers, parents and health professionals we know why the lessons of healthy eating are important,transferring this message to young children so that it is internalised presents the great health challenge of our time. Classroom to Kitchen provides the perfect solution as we bring these lessons to life seamlessly through fun,engagement and discovery. There is a large body of evidence that students who are taught to cook have a better understanding of nutrition and choose healthier meals in future years.
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A poor diet kills 70,000 people a year!! Make a change now and give your students the best start in life. Join our quest to become Northern Ireland's leader in nutrition education. Our goal is to impact 600 primary schools across the country, reaching over 200,000 students.
MAKE A BOOKING AND LETS GET COOKING!!!
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