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UK home appliance brand Belling has re-launched Belling Cookery Club, an initiative to support primary schools and enable them to provide practical cookery classes for children.<\/p>\nUK home appliance brand Belling has re-launched Belling Cookery Club, an initiative to support primary schools and enable them to provide practical cookery classes for children.<\/p>\n
The first phase of the initiative was a huge success, with schools in Dumfries and London winning an array of cooking appliances and accessories that have transformed their ability to provide hand-on cooking sessions, as well as supporting their local communities.<\/p>\n
Belling Cookery Club was launched to support the estimated 75% of primary schools that don\u2019t have a teaching kitchen. For this reason, and despite cooking and nutrition now forming part of the curriculum across the UK, it is believed that the majority of Key Stage 1 and 2 pupils don\u2019t receive practical cookery experiences.<\/p>\n
Belling, which has been at the heart of British cooking for more than a century, is hoping the Cookery Club initiative will play a part in helping the next generation embrace a love of cooking. Every year, Belling will award two primary schools with up to \u00a32,000 worth of cooking appliances, along with fun cooking accessories for the children to use.<\/p>\n
The competition is open to all primary schools, with pupils asked to produce a picture of their favourite nutritionally balanced meal, along with a description of why they like it so much and why it\u2019s good for them. Pupils can work on the entry individually or as a class, and each school is asked to select a single entry to be sent to Belling alongside a brief explanation from a member of teaching staff about the school\u2019s existing facilities and what winning the prize would enable them to do. Entries can be as fun and creative as the children like.<\/p>\n
Jane Rylands, Head of Marketing Communications at Belling, said: \u201cWe had a great response to Cookery Club last year and we loved looking at all the entries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe children get so much out of learning to cook \u2013 physically interacting with ingredients and producing their own food; learning new skills for later life and understanding what is good for them and why. We hope that Belling Cookery Club will give some schools a valuable resource and inspire their pupils to love cooking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Belling Cookery Club is now open (until Friday April\u00a0 5th<\/sup>)\u00a0 for entry via the Belling website on https:\/\/www.belling.co.uk\/cookery-club\/<\/a> where full details, along with Terms and Conditions are available.<\/p>\n