Free flour offer for schools
Last updated 11:44, Monday, 08 September 2008
CUMBRIAN schools are being offered free flour to raise awareness about the health benefits of baking their own bread.
Silloth-based Carrs Breadmaker – part of Carr’s Flour – is behind the initiative and has also released a breadmaking education module for primary school teachers.
Caroline Dale, marketing manager for Carrs Breadmaker, said: “We want to help teachers educate schoolchildren about healthy, nutritious homemade bread.
“We believe that fresh bread should be a tasty, wholesome part of any youngster’s diet.”
The module was devised in conjunction with Silloth’s Solway Community Technology College and Silloth, Allonby, Holm Cultram Abbey and Holme St Cuthbert primary schools.
Julia Cooper, head of design technology at Solway Community Technology College said: “Not only were their loaves delicious but their design folders, explaining how they approached this project as well as the history of flour itself, were first-rate.”
Jan Clark, of Cumbria Healthy Eating, described the module as a “splendid way of getting younger children to think about what goes into the food they eat”.
Carrs Breadmaker is also offering 12 free breadmaking machines to schools over the next year. Each one will be awarded monthly to a school judged to have submitted an outstanding portfolio after using the education module.
For further information about the free flour, education module and opportunity to win a breadmaking machine go to www.carrsbreadmaker.info
