Countdown to Young Cooks

Schoolchildren have until midnight on Thursday 7 November to get their entries in for the county’s official cooking competition for schools.

The annual contest is staged by the KM Charity Team to generate excitement about cooking and to encourage young people to develop skills in preparing healthy meals to a budget.

Young Cooks Finals 2018 from Inspire Schools on Vimeo.

Schools can get on board by helping pupils to submit entries in the classroom or by encouraging them to enter from home. All the young chefs need to do is prepare a dish and upload a photograph of the meal plus recipe details to the Young Cooks website.

Entrants for the Secondary School and Family categories must create two dishes to showcase their cooking skills while Primary School pupils are only required to submit one dish.

A child must be accompanied by an adult for the Family category and this can be a parent, guardian, Special Educational Needs Coordinator or Family Liaison Officer.

The best entrants in each category will be invited to make their dish for a VIP judging panel at the competition final hosted by East Kent College. The winners will receive framed certificates, goody bags packed with cookery prizes, and a share of the £500 cash prize pot.

Visit the Young Cooks website to enter before the deadline of midnight on Thursday 7 November.

The KCC-supported publication Developing an Educational Legacy details how this initiative (formerly known as Kent Cooks) links to Ofsted.

Contact Details

Hannah Hawksworth
Telephone: 0844 264 0291
Email: hhawksworth@thekmgroup.co.uk