Health Drive : School caterers, ISS Facility Services Education, have teamed up with charities Focus on Food and School Food Matters to bring the joys of cooking to school pupils, cooks and teachers across the London Borough of Redbridge.
Focus on Food is a charity that supports people to develop skills for healthier futures. Their impressive Cooking Buses – state-of-the-art travelling kitchen classrooms – visit schools and come with a specialist team of people to train teachers and teach children essential cooking skills.
Eighteen schools took part in sessions which were carefully structured to engage with everyone involved in promoting school food culture.
The visit, funded by ISS Education and administered by London based charity, School Food Matters, is an initiative designed to help local people, particularly children, learn more about food preparation and cooking.
Lynda Townend, ISS Education’s Operation’s Manager in Redbridge, said:
“We were delighted to have the Cooking Bus in Redbridge this week. It has been a fantastic experience for us and our cooks and we really hope that the pupils and teachers who joined us during the Bus’s visit thought so too. The sessions were incredibly insightful and were delivered in a very engaging and inspiring way. The excitement evident throughout the visits is extremely encouraging and wonderful to see. I’m eager to see how our cooks and the pupils take forward what they’ve learned and hope that it will play some part in continuing to improve food culture in schools.”
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