• Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award (14+ yr olds) - learn a new skill - Cooking

PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO DofE COURSE IN JAN-APRIL 2023. THIS MAY RESUME LATER IN THE YEAR OR IN 2024

I offer a 7-part course for those wishing to gain a new skill for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Skills Award. Classes last 2hrs each on 7 Saturdays in the spring term of each year and take place in my home kitchen. They provide all the content requirements for the Bronze Award. Since 2020, I have run this course via Zoom, weekly, (every Saturday) for the same 12 week, January to April, period with each session lasting roughly 90mins. Hopefully, they will resume as before from 2023.

Students must also check with their DofE Leader (through School) regularly throughout the process to verify their efforts over the three month period.

These classes will provide both the theoretical and practical side of cooking, with recipe sheets and worksheets for them to fill and keep as part of their evidence gathering to honour the requirements of the course.

When taking place face to face in a small group of 6, they need to get to The Cobbled Kitchen, 69, Harpenden Road, St Albans, Herts. AL3 6BY on alternate Saturdays from 2pm till 4pm.

Students will be cooking various dishes at each session and will need to bring several lidded takeaway tubs to carry home their food as well as a clean apron each.  

£320.00 per student for all 7 sessions.  This can be paid in full or in 3 instalments of £80 (also deposit), £120 and £120.

2022 Dates:

1. Sat 8 Jan, = “Food Safety and Hygiene”

2. Sat 22 Jan, = cont/d

3. Sat 5 Feb, = “Baking and Catering”

4. Sat 26 Feb, = cont/d

   THERE WILL BE NO CLASS ON SAT 12 OR 19 FEB DUE TO HALF TERM

5. Sat 12 Mar, = "Healthy Eating”

6. Sat 26 Mar = cont/d

7. Sat 23 Apr = “The Great Cobbled Cook Off!”

   IN ORDER TO FULFIL THE DofE TIME REQUIREMENTS, YOUR CERTIFICATES AND REPORTS MUST COVER 3 FULL CALENDAR MONTHS. DUE TO WHERE THE HOLIDAYS FALL IN 2022, THE SESSIONS WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE INTO THE START OF THE SUMMER TERM. THIS ENSURES FULL COMPLIANCE. REST ASSURED, THE BRONZE MINIMUM OF 12 HOURS OVER 12 WEEKS WILL BE MORE THAN MET!

• Student Survival Class or Courses (teens and young adults):

If your son or daughter would like to increase his/her independence in the kitchen so you don’t need to worry that they can feed themselves once they’ve flown the nest, book them onto 2 hour class where they’ll learn up to 6 recipes and loads of budget-cooking hacks. Even better if they do so with a small group of friends (2-7 ppl)!

I’ll teach them everything from Food Safety to Healthy Eating as well as Eating Well on a Budget and nifty Knife Skills. These will, understandably, take place ONLY in school holidays AT EASTER AND SUMMER, OR HALF TERMS. Just get in touch and we’ll take it from there!

Call me to discuss details or book your place(s) here

Students

Help your teens to become (instinctively) Food Smart!