'Cooking the summer away' at the Ateneo Grade School

Young girls and boys are “cooking the summer away” with the Ateneo de Manila Grade School’s “Bon Appetit” Summer Offerings and Advancement Remedials (SOAR).

 

Children aged 9 to 13 enrolled in the class to learn new exciting and fun recipes which they can share with their family and friends.

 

“I chose the cooking class because I want to know more about the culinary world and I would like to cook or be a chef when I grow up and I also want to help my mommy who is a chef,” one of the students said. Another student also said “I chose to join the cooking class this summer at the Ateneo grade School because I like to improve my cooking skills so that I will be able to know more recipes and I can be able to help my parents in cooking at home.”

 

Facilitator Ms. Marge Timoteo said that the cooking class offers a different experience to students aside from the academics they learned during the school year. “Usually the summer class that are offered in the Ateneo are academics, basically, there are reading, math, and language. We wanted something different so we thought of summer cooking classes. It’s a different offering to the students who are interested in cooking,” Timoteo said.

 

Ms. Jo Villacorte, also a facilitator, said that cooking teaches students values like cooperation and consideration along the whole workshop. “The first value that the kids learn is cooperation, and then consideration. We also do not settle for anything that is less than best so that they’ll know that it’s not just enough to be ok but it should be the best,” Villacorte said.

 

One of the students added, “It’s worth waking up early in the morning because we get to cook the food that we want.” Press release and photos from Ateneo de Manila University