Stratford students celebrate pizza as they cook their favourite food at school
Children at Maryland Primary learnt to prepare and enjoy pizzas as part of an event deisgned to teach them about healthy lifestyles - Credit: Archant
Many adults believe school is much more fun today than it was when they were young.
Most of them will be going green with envy when they hear that pupils at a primary school had the chance to tuck into tasty pizza they prepared themselves as part of a project promoting healthy lifestyles.
The Origins Day at Maryland Primary School, was led by teacher Anastasia Boreham and allowed the children to celebrate one of their favourite foods. The school’s headteacher, Lorna Jackson, wanted the children to focus on learning much more about where the food they take for granted comes from.
Anastasia Boreham, had brought her father, Stephen Boreham to help as he is an experienced cook and he gave the children a demonstration and visited every class during the day to offer support.
He had baked some delicious bread which children were asked to taste test against a piece of supermarket sliced white. Most children preferred Stephen’s bread, even though his bread was brown and most youngsters profess they don’t like brown bread.
Every child throughout the school researched all the pizza ingredients (flour, yeast, olive oil, sugar, salt, tomato, mozzarella, peppers, olives, mushrooms and pineapple), using maps and the internet.
Lorraine Cooper, deputy head at the Stratford school, said: “After that they donned their aprons and got stuck into making, kneading and proving their dough, rolling it out and adding the toppings. Every oven in the kitchen was stacked with baking pizzas – the school smelled wonderful!
Most Read
- 1 East Ham fire: Terraced houses damaged by blaze as woman treated at scene
- 2 Truck towing stolen Rolls Royce SUV crashes before dramatic foot chase
- 3 Fares Maatou was 'murdered with stolen sword', court hears
- 4 Three Met officers receive written warning over photos of murdered sisters
- 5 Manor Park blaze caused by the 'accidental ignition of textiles'
- 6 Moosakhan Nasiri: Man charged with Plashet Park murder
- 7 Man denies charges after drugs raids as east London duo await trial
- 8 Man denies committing GBH during alleged robbery at Barkingside Tesco
- 9 Woman injured after being hit by electric scooter in East Ham
- 10 Manor Park blaze: 100 firefighters get tower block fire under control
“The best part, of course, was the eating. There wasn’t a scrap left over. When I asked some classes whether they’d make pizza from scratch at home, most hands shot up into the air.”