Students whip up a storm in the kitchen.

Learning Centre students have been focusing on learning to incorporate healthier choices for independent living.  With guidance the students decide, prepare, cook and consume their meal.  They practise making the same recipe for two weeks running.

There is an emphasis on practical, healthy dishes that are easy to make.  The outcome is to inform and encourage students to cook their own food, rather than buying fast food. 

Last week it was Butter Chicken, a perennial favourite! Students work co-cooperatively learning the different cooking processes, then sit down together as if in a cafe in the community. 

The sharing of the meal is a time to talk and also a reminder to use their social skills and manners enabling them to blend seamlessly into the community.