10 parents (all mothers) and their children have been on a Family Learning course for 3 weeks and I was asked to run a breadmaking session with them on Wednesday afternoon.
The plan was that the parents would come in at 2pm, we would make pizzas together, then the children would join us at 3 and we would make some pet pain au chocolat.
In the event, 7 mothers turned up and we made a batch of dough out of which we made sizzlers and pizzas:
So far, so good - but then at three o'clock, chaos ensued!
I was busy in the school kitchen moving the pizzas about in the ovens - when I got back in the hall, all these extra people had arrived. 3 more parents and goodness knows how many children! I never got around to giving everyone a name label as is my usual wont - it was just too hectic.
I also like to get everyone around a group of tables, but the tables in the school hall were of a type new to me. They're circular, with stools attached to the table - 8 to each one - so it wasn't practicable to put them all together.
This meant I was going from table to table - 4 of them all told - demonstrating shaping the chocolate rolls and the different shapes. The parents who'd made the pizzas found themselves teaching the other mothers and their children how to make a bread dough, which was a plus. But it was pretty hectic.
In between all this I still had to keep an eye on the ovens.
All in all it was a really enjoyable, satisfying, session - despite all the mayhem. All the families went home promising to carry out their homework - which was to go home and teach someone what they'd learned today.
I managed to take a few pics:
The plan was that the parents would come in at 2pm, we would make pizzas together, then the children would join us at 3 and we would make some pet pain au chocolat.
In the event, 7 mothers turned up and we made a batch of dough out of which we made sizzlers and pizzas:
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| Cheese and tomato pizzas and cheese and tomato or mushroom sizzlers. |
I was busy in the school kitchen moving the pizzas about in the ovens - when I got back in the hall, all these extra people had arrived. 3 more parents and goodness knows how many children! I never got around to giving everyone a name label as is my usual wont - it was just too hectic.
I also like to get everyone around a group of tables, but the tables in the school hall were of a type new to me. They're circular, with stools attached to the table - 8 to each one - so it wasn't practicable to put them all together.
This meant I was going from table to table - 4 of them all told - demonstrating shaping the chocolate rolls and the different shapes. The parents who'd made the pizzas found themselves teaching the other mothers and their children how to make a bread dough, which was a plus. But it was pretty hectic.
In between all this I still had to keep an eye on the ovens.
All in all it was a really enjoyable, satisfying, session - despite all the mayhem. All the families went home promising to carry out their homework - which was to go home and teach someone what they'd learned today.
I managed to take a few pics:
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| One of the youngsters, Hannh, who did get a label, bringing her bread to the kitchen |
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| Two more batches. Just putting the finishing touches. |
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| And one more |
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| Some varieties of chocolate leak more than others. This is Sainsbury's Fairtrade milk chocolate |
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| All the batches reflected the enthusiasm of the children - they loved it. |
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