How it works

During the Autumn / Winter term, from September through to November, students will be taught a wide variety of practical skills about how to live healthily and safely. Lessons will encourage them to think about the quality of the food they eat, how it is cooked and dispel excuses for eating pre-packed food. It will also enable them to make positive career choices as well as exploring modern attitudes towards celebrity and issues surrounding technology and the internet.

Once students have completed these lessons they will be given the opportunity to put the ideas and skills they have developed to use and create a video of themselves cooking a dish – just like a TV chef – with the videos being uploaded to www.schoolcooks.co.uk. The best videos will be ones that show evidence that the student has taken on board all the skills they have been taught throughout the course.

You will then be able to download press releases, flyers and email templates so that teachers and students can run their own marketing and PR campaign for votes. Videos will be held on a highly secure part of the site, accessible only to students and teachers belonging to your school. The video with the most votes will be entered into a regional final.

The winning young chef from each of the six regions in the UK will then be entered into the national final to take place in July 2011 – winner to be chosen by Simon Rimmer.

“I’m looking for a student who can show me they’ve put all the things they’ve learnt with School Cooks to use and created a dish which is creative, delicious and, most of all, healthy.”

Simon Rimmer Celebrity chef and co-presenter of Something for the Weekend