Give a child (or adult) of any age one pan, one pancake, and tell them to get tossing.... and defy them not to have riotous fun....
We certainly had an afternoon to remember at Kimanjo Primary School to celebrate Pancake Day. Our noble chefs Rebecca, Chris, Paulina and Rose cooked 620 pancakes.. enough for all children and staff with quite a few left over for the tossing competition...
Enormous thanks to all our friends at Leamore Primary School in Birmingham who raised the money for all students here to be able to have a very good lunch... ...followed by pancakes for all. Leamore raised the money through their ‘pancake and chapatti cafe’, which gave all Leamore pupils a good deal of fun too... and thanks also to their own noble cooks...
Leamore are part of our Become a Friend network of schools who partner with Primary and nursery schools here.. always looking for creative and fun ways to make links. Food of course is near to everyone’s heart and this was a great idea from Leamore to make an educational, fun sharing experience. Pupils here all know about Lent from their Religious Education lessons, but the idea of Pancakes and Mardi Gras was a new one. In addition Leamore pupils learnt how to make Kenyan chapattis.
We began this learning experience two weeks ago with a cooking session for the teachers and senior pupils.. we made chapattis (Kenyan style )and sent the recipe and videos to our Leamore friends, see and pancakes (English style) following the Leamore recipe ...as an added bonus Leamore school got to see us taking photos and videos on their ‘old’ Leamore video cameras.. and we have been able to display these on the ‘old’ Leamore laptops for the Kimanjo pupils and teachers to view.
Become a Friend aims to expose children to different cultures whilst focusing our learning on healthcare and conservation messages: but always remembering that learning can be made as fun as possible.
650 pancakes?!!! wow!
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