Cooking Club - After School Program TERM 4

TERM 4 :  Cooking Club -  After School Program

Introducing culinary skills at a young age can lay the foundations for a lifetime of enjoyment around food preparation, nutrition and eating. It has endless benefits that range from social/emotional & physical development, as well as cognitive and language development.

Evolved Wellbeing will be facilitating our first After School cooking program specifically for our junior chefs in primary school year 3 to 6. 

Each week, for 5 weeks we will deliver a class that runs on a Tuesday from 3.30pm - 4.30pm 

We will focus on each class being easily replicable at home, inexpensive to feed a family and delicious while being nutritionally diverse (& aiming to encourage your child to make it again & again!).

The food will be engaging to the senses and will encourage enquiry from curious foodie minds!!

The overall aim is to deliver basic introductory kitchen skills such as how to safely work with sharp objects/heat, basic food preparation, food safety and hygiene and general concept of involving the senses in relation to flavour and presentation.

We will have a loose theme each week (example countries; Mexican or food type; eggs, meal type; Breakfast etc) and will be based on seasonal availability.

Last program we ran the following classes:

- Egg-citing Eggs: Poach eggs, make egg based dressing & caeser salad

- Burger from the Caribbean : Marinating & cooking chicken, grilling pineaple, create a spice rub & make a chicken burger

- Pasta Carbonara: Pasta dough from scratch, make sauce for carbonara

- Tasty Tostada; Vegetarian Mexican refried beans, guacamole to create tostada

- Class conclusion: Apple crumble & surprise creative session

The Cooking Club - After School program will be limited to a maximum of 6 children to provide the best learning experience for everyone.

The children will have 100% hands on creation of their own dish, they will make around a 2 portion sized meal, so not enough to serve for dinner but maybe enough to eat some to quell the after school hungry & a little left over to share and show to family.

Dates for workshops:

Tues 2nd November  3.30 - 4.30pm

Tues 9th November  3.30 - 4.30pm

Tues 16th November  3.30 - 4.30pm

Tues 23rd November  3.30 - 4.30pm

Tues 30th November  3.30 - 4.30pm

This class is ONLY available to children 8-11 years of age/ primary grade 3 -6 , this is an independent class - children only (carers deliver and collect students ).

It is to parental/carer discretion that they deem their child responsible & capable to participate in a cooking workshop where there is everyday calculated, managed risks in a commercial kitchen ie; use of knives, heat sources (ovens/stovetops) etc. It is recommended that the participant be tall enough to work at a standard height kitchen bench - please discuss if you believe it might be an issue.

Guardian is required to deliver and collect the student, our duty of care policies will not allow a child to leave the premises without a guardian.

Vicki Freeborough holds the following current checks relevant to Childrens classes;

- Working With Children Card

- Police Clearance

-Senior First Aid Certification

Our recipes will be NUT FREE, however the kitchen may have had nuts prepared in the past. We will be working with gluten, eggs, meat and dairy.

If you require any further information, please contact us at info@evolvedwellbeing.com.au