SENIOR SCHOOL Food Technology

During March, two classes of Fourth Form pupils took part in The Fish in Schools Hero programme, which is run by the Food Teachers Centre, in partnership with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. This equipped the students with the knowledge of how to prepare and cook Pink Alaskan Salmon which was very kindly donated to the school from Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

The programme aims to ensure that every child gets a chance to prepare, cook and eat fish before they leave school.

The students marinated their salmon in a spicy glaze including fresh chilli, ginger and garlic. The GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition pupils involved had a brilliant time gaining new knowledge and skills. These will be highly useful not only for their Non-Examined Assessment next year but also in wherever their cooking skills might take them in the future. Well done to all of those who participated.

salmon to schools for cookery students to prepare up and down the country.

Students at Ackworth school learned about sustainability and nutrition as well as developing delicious spicy glazed salmon dish with the Alaska salmon in their practical classes.

Food and nutrition teacher Liana Peck said, “I am thrilled that we were selected to receive the wild salmon from Alaska. It meant that our students could not only learn about the different tastes, textures and nutritional value of the salmon, but also cook with the fish themselves.”

Rebecca Wilson, Trade Director for Alaska Seafood in Northern Europe commented, “We are delighted to partner with the Food Teachers Centre for their Fish in Schools Hero Programme. We have been working with Fish In Schools Hero programme for over a year to get the Alaska salmon into students’ hands and we are pleased that students will finally get the opportunity to cook with it.”

In a national first, Food Preparation and Nutrition students at Ackworth School have been the lucky recipients of wild Alaska pink salmon to use in their classrooms, in a bid to improve their fish cookery skills.

The initiative is part of The Fish In Schools Hero programme which is run by the Food Teachers Centre, in partnership with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. Together they will deliver an unprecedented 20,000 fillets of wild Alaska

Simon Gray, Senior Associate at the Food Teachers Centre said, “94% of our teachers surveyed in 2020 wanted their pupils to use different fish and not to be scared of trying something new, but less than half of them used fresh or frozen fish. This unique opportunity overcomes the obstacles teachers face with regards to cost, sourcing fresh fish, and cooking skills in schools to introduce students to wild, sustainable, healthy and delicious fish. We’ve created training to build teachers’ confidence, recipes to make their lesson run smoothly and delivered high quality fish that schools will love to try. We are excited to see the difference this will make to young people in the future.”