Learning to cook at a young age is thoroughly enjoyed by the children and is an excellent, engaging way to build basic math skills such as counting eggs or measuring water. By exploring their senses, an adventurous palate grows, along-with confidence and a whole host of homemade goodies that are proudly brought home for everyone to enjoy.
Your nursery is equipped with specialist children’s cooking and baking equipment that are designed for the budding chef, meaning they are safe and have easy grip handles, ready to support the children’s culinary adventures.
Once your child has whipped up a biscuit or created a winning scone, your child will be supported to place it in the Mobile Mini Kitchen with a ‘cool touch’ oven, perfect to safely cook away in a controlled environment.
Cooking Club is an opportunity for children to learn valuable skills for the future whilst creating and preparing their own food. Key learnings include:
Linking home to nursery and nursery to home creates a solid foundation for your child to develop in their important environments. We have created recipe cards so you can copy the ingredients and steps at home to further build on your child’s skills and confidence whilst having lots of fun.
Our cookery enhancement nurseries are equipped with child-friendly cooking and baking equipment and ‘cool-touch’ ovens.
Your child will really look the part in an Old Station Nursery chef’s hat and apron.
The nursery staff will be trained in and will follow The Old Station Nursery Forest cookery curriculum and menus.
We have recipes to cater for different dietary requirements and these will always be considered when carrying out an activity. Where possible, we will make an alternative.
All of the equipment is designed for children, including child safety knives and a cool touch oven. Adults will always be responsible for placing and removing items from the oven.
Each The Old Station Nursery cookery enhancement nurseries will cook a minimum of once a week. Please contact your chosen Forest School nursery for the timetable.
Lovely setting, staff and management genuinely interested in the children's wellbeing; children have the opportunity to take part in diverse learning activities: counting, storytelling, den building, science experiments, cooking, dance and yoga. My son enjoys his time there, reluctant to leave some days... Parents receive regular updates about the daily activities and learning milestones. They have recently opened the holiday club, booked for summer too! Definitely recommending the setting for all preschoolers!
My daughter is now in preschool, she has thoroughly enjoyed her years at this nursery, she has made lots of friends and really likes her teachers. She particularly enjoys Spanish, yoga and superstar sports and cooking as well as the montessori based activities. As a parent, I find the staff very approachable. I appreciate that there is a variety of tasty hot food cooked on-site. We have enjoyed attending special events such as Christmas concerts and stay-and-play sessions. Would highly recommend this nursery
I would highly recommend Filkins Nursery. Our daughter started in September and has not looked back since. All the staff are very welcoming and friendly which creates a lovely atmosphere for the children to be in. Every day there seems to be different fun, creative and educational activities - French, yoga, cooking, forest school. I am watching my daughter grow more confident, learning new skills, making friends and enjoying herself and it is a joy! Thank you Filkins!