It’s the first time the celebrity chef’s Kitchen Garden Project has been set up in Jersey and the charity’s plan is to give over 10% of the Island’s primary schoolchildren around 25 hours of food education during the school year.
They’ve been working with the Education department, Santander and the National Vegetable Society to create kitchen gardens at Samarès, Mont Nicolle and St Luke’s Schools and the new teacher will work with the class teachers at each of them to get the children planting seeds, nurturing their veggies and preparing and cooking the food they’ve grown.
Caring Cooks of Jersey’s Founder and CEO Melissa Nobrega said: “Effectively it’s a plant to plate project. We believe that providing children with the tools they need to grow food from seed and prepare nutritious meals from scratch, equips them with some of life’s most valuable skills, and the Kitchen Garden Project aims to do just that.
“In our busy lives, good food and teaching children to cook can understandably, often take a back seat to other priorities, so we want to support families in giving children a clear understanding of good food, and how it is good for their bodies, and the ability to prepare simple meals from scratch.
“It will bring science, maths and literacy into the sessions, they’ll plant seeds, measure the height, learn about volume of water when they are watering the plants, so it brings all those educational subjects into it as well.”
The new role is full time, term-time only and the closing date for applications is 15 September. You can find out more about it here.
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