Junior Chefs step up to the plate

FOURTEEN young budding chefs from local Schools have just completed the Junior Chefs’ Academy at the Northern Regional College in Ballymena.
By The Newsroom
Published 25th May 2013, 13:21 BST
Congratulating the students who attended the Junior Chef Academy programme at NRC was Mary Doran Head of Curriculum Hospitality & Catering with Megan Gillen, Cambridge House, Samantha Brownlee, Slemish College, Megan Agnew, Cambridge House, Nicola Anderson, Ballymena Academy who are pictured with Sam Bell, NRC Head of Faculty for Professional & Leisure Studies and NRC Lecture Jane McAuley. INBT 21- NRC 1Congratulating the students who attended the Junior Chef Academy programme at NRC was Mary Doran Head of Curriculum Hospitality & Catering with Megan Gillen, Cambridge House, Samantha Brownlee, Slemish College, Megan Agnew, Cambridge House, Nicola Anderson, Ballymena Academy who are pictured with Sam Bell, NRC Head of Faculty for Professional & Leisure Studies and NRC Lecture Jane McAuley. INBT 21- NRC 1
Congratulating the students who attended the Junior Chef Academy programme at NRC was Mary Doran Head of Curriculum Hospitality & Catering with Megan Gillen, Cambridge House, Samantha Brownlee, Slemish College, Megan Agnew, Cambridge House, Nicola Anderson, Ballymena Academy who are pictured with Sam Bell, NRC Head of Faculty for Professional & Leisure Studies and NRC Lecture Jane McAuley. INBT 21- NRC 1

The Junior Chefs aged 14-16 year olds, cooked in full whites in the professional kitchen preparing a special lunch for family, friends and guests.

The programme is a fun-filled, hands-on introduction to cooking as a career which is organised by sector skills council, People 1st, in partnership with Compass Group UK and Ireland. It has been delivered at NRC since 2009

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Congratulating the students NRC Curriculum Manager Mary Doran commented how essential the programme is for the participants: “This is a great opportunity for young people to get a taste of what its like to work in a professional kitchen, acquire new skills and to learn what it would be like to work in the Hospitality and Catering industry. The programme is a success due to the determination of the parents in bringing the young people to NRC every Saturday for the last ten weeks. It is also down to the staff who share their passion for cooking and the interest and enthusiasm they demonstrate with the young people in teaching them new skills.”

The students were Megan Agnew and Megan Gillen from Cambridge House Grammar School, Jessica Gallop, Sara Halligan, Emily Hunter, Chloe Montgomery, Kate Pedan, Sharagh Todd from Antrim Grammar, Samantha Brownlee from Slemish College, Rhynard Campbell from St. Killians

Colege, Helen Blair from Magherafelt High School, Jonathan Williamson from Ballyclare High School, Euan Dixon from Ulidia Integrated College and Nicola Anderson from Ballymena Academy.

NRC has a variety of Catering, Hospitality & Food Hygiene courses available. For further information please log onto the NRC website at www.nrc.ac.uk or telephone 028 2563 6221.

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