One of the projects that I co-organized with Alyona Sukhova this year is the cooking club. The purpose of it is to teach other students in the school to cook various dishes that Alyona and I have mastered ourselves.
The club runs every Monday lunchtime in the Chemistry room and we have already organized two cooking sessions which I want to talk about in this post.
Last Monday we taught the students how to prepare Japanese sushi rolls and this Monday we cooked Tiramisu. We attempt to make our dishes as international as possible in order to maintain the international environment that is so valued in our school. The club proved to be a successful idea as a lot of people show up with great enthusiasm to create! I personally feel incredibly happy to be teaching useful skills to students and watch them really enjoy one of my all time favorite hobbies - cooking.
One of the difficulties that we were faced with is controlling what every single person in our "kitchen" is doing. Since a lot of students come to learn from us, it is troublesome to correct every single person if she/he is doing something wrong. However we have learned that explaining the process of cooking first and only then letting the students try it by themselves helps in eliminating mistakes and overall is a ,uch more convenient way of organizing our sessions.
In the closest future, Alyona and I are planning to extend our activity to creating a board in the school that we may use to display different recipes and the photos from our cooking sessions. I will be updating my CAS blog on the progress with that.
I think that cooking club is a great activity to run in our school and it enables me to:
- increase awareness of my strengths and weaknesses
- plan and initiate activities
- work collaboratively with others
- show perseverance and commitment to cooking
- consider ethical implications of my actions
The club runs every Monday lunchtime in the Chemistry room and we have already organized two cooking sessions which I want to talk about in this post.
Last Monday we taught the students how to prepare Japanese sushi rolls and this Monday we cooked Tiramisu. We attempt to make our dishes as international as possible in order to maintain the international environment that is so valued in our school. The club proved to be a successful idea as a lot of people show up with great enthusiasm to create! I personally feel incredibly happy to be teaching useful skills to students and watch them really enjoy one of my all time favorite hobbies - cooking.
One of the difficulties that we were faced with is controlling what every single person in our "kitchen" is doing. Since a lot of students come to learn from us, it is troublesome to correct every single person if she/he is doing something wrong. However we have learned that explaining the process of cooking first and only then letting the students try it by themselves helps in eliminating mistakes and overall is a ,uch more convenient way of organizing our sessions.
In the closest future, Alyona and I are planning to extend our activity to creating a board in the school that we may use to display different recipes and the photos from our cooking sessions. I will be updating my CAS blog on the progress with that.
I think that cooking club is a great activity to run in our school and it enables me to:
- increase awareness of my strengths and weaknesses
- plan and initiate activities
- work collaboratively with others
- show perseverance and commitment to cooking
- consider ethical implications of my actions
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