Cook & Eat Sessions and Teaching
I hold a Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS) teaching certificate – now The Level 3 Award in Education and Training (RQF), allowing me to teach adult learners and I have a current clean DBS check
Previous Work
Swan Housing - Young Mothers/Fathers (Cook & Eat Sessions)
I was employed by Swan Housing to help some of their residents (young mothers) learn to cook and to identify healthy options. The cookery course consisted of a 3hr session where I taught Smoothies, Soups, Pasta Dishes, Brown Rice Dishes, Salads and Healthy Desserts, and Healthy Eating.
Benefits: Learners learned basic cooking skills and confidence with food and the difference between healthy and unhealthy foods.
Swan Housing - Residents Group (Cook & Eat Sessions)
I hosted 2 healthy eating days for Swan Housing where I demonstrated 3 healthy dishes, such as a Lentil Soup, a Brown Rice and Pasta Dish and offered a discussion about health and wellbeing with a Q&A session.
Swan Housing - Somali Group (Cook & Eat Nutrition Sessions)
After discovering a large number of their Somali residents were suffering from nutrition related illnesses, I was employed by Swan Housing to teach health and wellbeing, and how to cook healthier. I ran a number of 6-week cook and eat sessions that covered soups, vegetarian & pulse dishes, using healthy proteins & brown rice, healthy pasta dishes & cakes. This proved so popular with the residents that I ran two more, one of which was filmed that can be watched here.
Benefits: Learners understood how to cook healthier food and how to use less of the harmful ingredients in their own cuisine, such as saturated fats.
Shadwell Centre (Cook & Eat Sessions & Cookery Tuition)
The Shadwell centre is an Idea Store Learning Centre in Tower Hamlets that offers many arts and crafts courses to a variety of abilities and groups of adult learners. The Shadwell Centre has an excellent kitchen facility.
Shadwell Centre - Learners with Learning Difficulties (Cook & Eat Sessions)
I taught four 10-week ‘Fun with Food’ courses with adults with moderate to severe learning difficulties that were assisted by a support worker.
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The course covered knife skills, Salads, Pasta Dishes, Stir Fry’s, Fresh Pizzas, Snacks, Cookies & Muffins.
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I also created picture recipes, such as the one pictured below.
Benefits: Learners benefitted enormously from this valuable interaction, gaining independent skills, a real sense of achievement and a lot of fun!
Picture Recipe Card
Shadwell Centre - Adult Learners (Cookery Tuition)
I taught 10-week Basic Cookery and Healthy Eating courses to adult learners.
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The basic cookery ‘Get Cooking’ course covered basic knife skills and dishes like Soups, Simple Salads, Healthy Snack Food, Stir Frying, Desserts & Cakes.
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The healthy eating ‘Delicious Dishes’ course covered healthy dishes like Brown Rice Kedgeree, Quorn Chilli and healthier cakes.
Benefits: Learners achieved various, more advanced cooking skills and a greater sense of confidence in the kitchen.
Shadwell Centre - Other Classes
I taught other cookery classes such as healthy finger food and baking.