Rowde Country Soup with Soda Bread

In this resource from Teachers TV, Chef Peter Vaughan visits a Year Five class at Rowde Primary School to help children become involved in cooking food grown in their school garden. Children have been developing an awareness of where their food comes from by growing vegetables in their school garden. Peter wants to encourage healthy eating and cookery skills by helping the children make a soup using vegetables they have grown themselves.

Joined by Teacher Mandy Wood he sets up his equipment, including chopping boards, knives and a portable cooker. Children learn about important health and safety rules whilst preparing food such as cutting on a stable surface and on the flat side of the vegetable.

The class is split into two groups both supported by an adult to prepare the soup and to make the soda bread. Finally the soda bread is decorated with giant onion rings from a prize-winning four-pound onion, grown by Head teacher David Ball.

The children enjoy eating the food they have grown and prepared and are proud of their achievement. Working with a TV Chef inspires children to enjoy cooking and also to begin to think about careers in the food industry.