Checking out their future careers
A host of tasty career options were on the menu at Burnside primary school last week.
The school was hosting a careers event based around the food and drink industries, letting youngsters see possible career paths that they might want to take a bite out of.
The event was planned in partnership wi t h Education Scotland’s Food For Thought’ initiative, BITC Scotland and the school’s parent focus group, including Eugenie Aroutcheff from Grow73 and Cate Smith from the University of the west of Scotland.
Allyson McGovern, the school’s depute head teacher, said: “Children from P1 to P7 classes took part in the event over the course of the morning.
“We had a range of visitors from across the food and drink sector who discussed their jobs with the children, what they do, what qualifications they needed and what skills and qualities would be good to possess in order to do their job well.
“Some visitors had b rought p rops and equipment they use in their everyday job and the children had a hands on experiences with pizza dough, honeycomb and frozen meat.
“Boots donated four goody bags to the school and SLC Leisure donated 10 passes for the leisure centre and the lucky names were drawn out of a hat of those that attended the event.
“The RHET representative has also donated wheat for us to grow. Padano restaurant also invited our P5/6 class to visit their restaurant to find out more about the hospitality side of working within the food and drink industry.
“The career event was organised as part of our commitment to food and health education.
“This year we were awarded £3k from Education Scotland to get our own ‘growing project’ off the ground and have purchased a polytunnel and pizza oven amongst other things to start growing and using our own ingredients to make pizza.
“It’s a very exciting time for the children as they will be physically involved in the journey of food from seed to plate.”