12:52pm Tuesday 16th March 2010
AN innovative educational website has been launched to help secondary school children develop a passion for food.
The Cooking for Schools website has been launched by Bettys, the famed tea room, and specially developed to encourage pupils in secondary education to learn more about food and nutrition and how to cook for themselves.
It also provides information on careers in the food and catering industry and features video clips of Bettys staff talking about their jobs and career paths.
Aimed at teachers and students at key stage three and four, the resource supports food technology, science and enterprise, with a strong emphasis on information, advice and guidance.
Bettys Cookery School in Harrogate already works with Yorkshire schools by offering free bread-making classes to more than 330 pupils between the ages of eight and 16 each year.
Richard Jones, cookery school manager, said: "One of our core beliefs and greatest pleasures is to enthuse young people about good food and how to cook for themselves. The launch of Cooking for Schools brings all of Bettys’ craft skills and expertise to schools and pupils too far away to come and learn with us here."
The website was inspired by A Year of Family Recipes - a seasonal cookery book by Lesley Wild, founder of Bettys Cookery School and was developed with the help of experts in all areas of food education including tutors at the cookery school; teachers; Paul Walton, professor of chemistry at the University of York and educational specialists, Innovate Educate.
Visit www.cookingforschools.co.uk for more information.
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