In a suburb near you a passionate educator and
mum is helping to support children and partner with
teachers in a new Incursion program that has taken
Melbourne by storm.
Providing children with a hands-on, fun, interactive
cooking workshop – The Travelling Kitchen equips the
children of today and the adults of tomorrow with
essential healthy food knowledge, basic yet enduring
cooking skills and works with classroom teachers to
ensure each workshop pops with fun whilst supporting core learning/curriculum needs.
The Travelling Kitchen visits primary schools, kindergartens, after-school care programs, children’s festivals and school holiday programs to help inspire and educate children about healthy eating and the skills to enjoy and make healthy food.
All students receive a Travelling Kitchen show bag which includes a paper chef hat,
recipe card, worksheets and information cards on healthy eating and cooking at home for
them to share with their families and with most workshops the children get the chance to
take home their finished product, unless they have eaten it first!
Travelling Kitchen founder Karen Koutsodontis
is a food technology teacher, mother of two and
visionary leader who first saw that the gap between
primary school eating habits and secondary school
needs closing. Karen understands the challenges
faced by Australian families and schools in this arena.
So in the triage of needs that face principals and teachers daily, where and how do you
boost health promotion and key life skills such
as healthy cooking into the scheme of things?
“Well, that’s exactly what we’re here for!” says Karen.
Testimonials about The Travelling Kitchen have been glowing, as Nick, Grade 1/2 Leading
Teacher from Richmond Primary school said:
“Thanks so much for the terrific incursion. All teachers were really impressed with your
professional, highly educational sessions and clearly you are very passionate about what you teach. It is
clear that our kids thoroughly enjoyed it too as they were obviously engaged throughout. Too often as
teachers we come across mediocre, uninspiring excursions/incursions (which I find just incredible!) but
yours was outstanding and we have already recommended it for other year levels at our school.”
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