Cooking from different cultures

1. Cooking from different cultures These resources can be used for Cross-curricular topic work involving children’s different languages Language classes in the community MFL classes See also resource sheet (link) Developed by Goldsmiths/Tower Hamlets teacher partnership project

2. Making Somali bread together with parents Drawing on cultural knowledge Eating ‘laxoox’ bread Sharing a cultural experience

3. Benefits for learning • Valuing Somali culture in the class • Celebrating diversity • Raising child’s self-esteem • Encouraging parents to make healthy traditional foods • Children knowing different types of bread • Talk between parents and children about food Sharing food in Somali class • Writing ingredients for ‘laxoox’ bread and accompanying dish

4. Foods from Bangladesh Resource used to stimulate ICT activity where children create their own food posters, using resources from internet and writing about each food item/dish

5. Children write recipe at home with parents and cook the dish together • Bring recipes back to class, share and compare