Outdoor Cooking Workshops for Schools in Kent

Hands-On Outdoor Learning Through Cooking

With two decades of teaching experience across a range of ages and settings, Wild Classroom combines outdoor learning and cooking over fire. As a result, we create engaging school cooking workshops in Kent tailored to your learners’ needs.

These workshops can include outdoor learning days, where children prepare healthy, seasonal food over fire. Alternatively, pupils can explore history through cooking. They use ingredients and techniques from the past.

No experience is ever the same and I will always  liaise with staff beforehand to tailor the event to suit the children’s needs. 

All food is high-welfare and locally-sourced where possible, as well as providing a chance for pupils to  cook and try food they perhaps would not have done before.

What Does a Typical School Cooking Workshop Look Like?

Every Wild Classroom workshop is different. Each outdoor cooking session is tailored to the needs of the school and its students. We deliver hands-on outdoor cooking workshops for primary schools across Kent. These combine practical cooking skills, outdoor learning and engaging historical or topical themes.

First, we start with a safety chat in the fire circle. We then build and light the fire together, ready for cooking.

Next, students prepare the food for the workshop. Instructions and teaching are linked to the historical or topical theme of the session. Wherever possible, students undertake the food preparation themselves, with adult supervision where necessary.

During the workshop, students cook the food over the fire. They get hands-on experience of different fire cooking techniques and are supervised throughout. If weather conditions make fire cooking unsafe, the activity will be adapted accordingly.

Finally, the food is served for everyone to enjoy. The group then helps to tidy the cooking area. If time allows, we finish with a question and answer session about the topic or fire cooking.