November 2005 | Food Lab
with Commonwork
Following on the Food Colloquium held in 2003, PAL and Commonwork, working in partnership, invited Food Technology and Science teachers from local Kent schools to a 5-day residential Lab.
Working with a food writer, a food photographer, a sculptor, a scientist, and a multi-media designer to explore practical ideas to help young people take important issues around food on board and give good, healthy, delicious food and its production and preparation the prominence it deserves in school and in all our daily lives.
“The whole ethos of equally sharing ideas and not fearing the right or wrong outcome was very reassuring and would be good to incorporate more into teaching.” Don Kirby, Science Teacher
Lab director
Peter Gilpin
Lab participants
Rob Bevan - multi-media designer, XPT
Julia Bracewell - Education Officer, Commonwork
Bev Butler-Smith - teacher
Jane Cheal - chef, Commonwork
Simon Crowder - teacher
Lori De Mori - writer and cook
Jane Essex - science educator
Rod Harris - sculptor
Mary Healy- education officer, Soil Association
Mary-Jane Higginson - teacher
Don Kirby - teacher
Jason Lowe - food photographer
Frances Meek - teacher
Kathy Pimlott - Lab co-ordinator
Sheila Walton - teacher
Tessa Waterhouse - teacher
Guest participants
Adam Barker - capoeira instructor
Mike Cottrell - MD, Commonwork Farms Ltd
Ray Mathias - science communicator
Steve Mesure - science communicator
Penny Plowden - ceilidh band
Eugene Skeef - musician
Vimmi Vatish - capoeira instructor
Morris Wintle - ceilidh band
Lab evaluation
Zoe Wangler
Visitors
Susan Benn - Director, PAL
Esme Chilton - Director, Creative Partnerships, Kent
Jaqueline Leach - Director, Commonwork
Funded by
Garfield Weston Foundation
Commonwork Land Trust
