Classroom cooking toolkit

This toolkit is useful if you are teaching cooking or are in charge of food preparation.

This is a full booklet with a lot of useful information, lesson ideas and whole school resources.

Get the whole school involved

Create a cooking display in the entrance hall or foyer. Include photographs of the children cooking, as well as images of their final dishes.

Curriculum

Science
Animals including humans
Key Stage 1

• Describe the importance of exercise for humans, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene

Key Stage 2

• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat

Design and Technology
Cooking and Nutrition
Key Stage 1

• Understand where food comes from

Key Stage 2

• Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet

In the classroom

The classroom cooking toolkit is full of great ideas to help you teach cooking with cooking FAQs and essential safety tips. 

• Ideas on how you can teach children about a healthy and balanced diet, utilising 5 A DAY and the eatwell guide
• FAQs to help you get started
• Top tips for what you need to consider before your cooking session
• Simple guidelines to make activities safe, hygienic and manageable