The Beyond Education-Being Human initiative, delivered by Mount Kelly’s caterers Thomas Franks, has one vision: to help provide children and young adults with essential cooking and food-based life skills. Throughout the course of this year, and as part of our sustainability manifesto with Thomas Franks, we are delighted to provide six sessions for each year group at the Prep to learn about food, cooking, production, charity and sustainability.
The first of these sessions took place on Thursday and Friday this week, with pupils in Years 3 to 6 participating in apple and raspberry crumble-making classes to send to City Harvest food charity. The children were involved in every stage of the process – from preparing the apples to packaging the finished crumbles – whilst learning about food poverty along the way. An impressive 400 double portions of crumble were produced by pupils and will soon be on the way to those in need.
Year 7 pupils participated in sustainable cookery sessions, using surplus cauliflower to create delicious pakora, and practising their cutting skills to make vegetable sushi.
All food at Mount Kelly is homemade on site by Thomas Franks, with 80% of ingredients sourced from within 30 miles of the school, providing pupils with a seasonal menu of nutritious and flavoursome meals. Read more.
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