Learning & Development: Cooking - Stirring stuff

Nursery World, 12 June 2008

Older people added a special ingredient to a nursery cookery project described by Veronica Broyd, headteacher at Kendal Nursery School in Cumbria.

We are a 'Healthy School' so we already promote healthy eating with the children and their families and have many food-related activities. Staff find that participating in cooking activities is a great way for the children to access all the areas of learning (see box), so we bake together each week. When we were approached by one of the parents to become part of her intergenerational project for Age Concern, using the medium of food and diet, it...

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