Ready, Steady, Cook!

Rivers’ students get creative in the kitchen

A group of our year 9 and 10 students recently paid a visit to Anglia Ruskin University’s Braxted Cookery School to cook up some of their own recipes.

The cookery programme is part of Anglia Ruskin University’s ‘Amplify Your Talent’ programme, and over the past few weeks, students have been getting to grips with the various elements that go into planning recipes.

Students dreamt up a number of dishes while factoring in budgets and ingredients, before putting their culinary skills to the test. There were some very tasty results, and students were praised for their innovative and cost-effective dishes, as well as for their exemplary behaviour on the trip.

The visit supports some of the wider work taking place at the academy around growing and cooking with fresh fruit and vegetables, embodied by the ‘Calm, Cultivate and Cook’ Club.

The weekly club enables our students to follow the growing and cooking process ‘from farm to fork’, from preparing the ground for planting, all the way to cooking in the school kitchen. Most recently, students have prepared the vegetable beds and learnt more about the academy’s compost system which helps to minimise food waste.