Rhiwbina Living Issue 57

A recipe
for success
providing the reassurance and
familiarity they needed to readjust
to a very different school life. Bake
Off Friday became an established
and cherished part of the school
week and sustained the class
through the ups and downs of the
Covid period.
Bake Off Friday, with all its
opportunities to develop valuable
life skills, continues to be a
mainstay of our curriculum with
pupils putting our teaching kitchen
to regular use. What we cook
reflects the seasons, class topics,
celebrations, visitors on site, or just
what takes our fancy.
Where we can, we source
ingredients locally, with ‘food miles’
reduced to food metres when it
comes to eggs, thanks to our school
chickens. Autumn brings with it our
apple crop from our Welsh native
apple orchard and an abundance
of blackberries from the school’s
hedgerow so of course, blackberry
and apple crumble is very definitely
on the menu.
Another autumn favourite is the
baking of a harvest loaf, sculpted
from dough and displayed as the
centrepiece of our charity Rainbow
of Hope and The Cardiff Food Bank
donations.
Pasta and tomato sauce is a great
staple, and one that is incredibly
popular with our pupils. In line with
our ethos of showing our pupils that
meals are the sum of a range of
ingredients, Llanishen Fach pasta
doesn’t come out of a bag! Instead,
the children have experience
making fresh pasta, combining flour
with our own eggs and rolling and
cutting into fettuccine, topped off
with tomato and onion sauce and
Bake Off Fridays
The old proverb, ‘the proof of the
pudding is in the eating’ still rings true
at Llanishen Fach Primary School,
but we like to say, ‘the proof of the
learning is in the eating’.
It has been two years since our
pupils were first learning online, with
shared experiences happening over
8
Zoom. And it was at this time that we
established ‘Bake Off Fridays’ where
our pupils with additional learning
needs (ALN pupils) came together
to join in with a Friday cooking
activity from the comfort of their own
kitchens.
In time, Dosbarth Enfys, our special
resource base, attended by our ALN
pupils was welcoming them back
from Covid lockdown, with cooking