Hardy Mill School pupils team up with Greenhalgh's

Hardy Mill Primary School in Harwood has brought alive its design and technology lessons to show youngsters the purpose of what they learn.

Lucy Dinsmore, the school's design and technology lead, brought in Bolton's Greenhalgh's Bakery and Bolton Community Kitchen to design a 'brilliant community project' for the cooking and nutrition unit.

Year Five and Six children were presented with a design brief which asked them to make some delicious vegetarian pasties for Bolton Community Kitchen - a charity which provides warm, nourishing meals to the elderly, vulnerable and homeless adults throughout Bolton.

Before the children could design and make their very own pasties, they took part in a product research lesson where they could disassemble, taste and evaluate existing products on the market.

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Sarah Goulding at Greenhalgh's Craft Bakery arranged a donation of 45 pasties of various flavours.

Sarah also gave the children some professional pasty baking tips.

Headteacher Jo Briggs said: "Once the children had completed their research, they got to work designing their pasties with a range of different in season vegetables and exciting flavours. Class teachers then taught them how to make pastry from scratch and how to prepare and fill their pasties.

"The children made enough pasties to enjoy one for themself and enough to ensure that Bolton Community Kitchen had enough to enjoy at one of their Wednesday meal times.

"The children ensured that the pasties were carefully labelled with ingredients and packaged before they were delivered to Bolton Community Kitchen. The pasties were gratefully received and enjoyed."

She added: "It has been a great learning experience for the children working with a local business and charity as part of this project. We hope that this will be the first of many projects that we can include as part of our design technology curriculum."