While Chef Caroline was out this Monday, one of our year 9 students stepped up to help Miss Rai and Miss Rebecca in the kitchen. Yitzi, who has been learning to cook for over a year, helped prepare lunch and made a lovely banana blueberry muffin cake. He served pieces of it to hungry pupils and staff alike. While he says cookies are normally his speciality, the cake baked up very nicely. Our careers program and the hospitality class that Chef Caroline teaches encourage students like Yitzi to find their interests and explore skills that they can apply now and in the future.
Gesher’s Co-Careers Lead and Head of Partnerships, Jodi Sampson, said ‘It was a pleasure to see the confidence and pride that Yitzi demonstrated when he was asked to prepare lunch for the school. He successfully applied the key industry-specific skills he has developed through his weekly internal work experience and hospitality lessons with our school chef, Caroline. It has been wonderful to watch him grow in confidence in an area he hopes to pursue as a career, and to support him in building meaningful opportunities to help make this aspiration a reality.’
Meaningful work experience can be transformative. A 3–5 day work shadowing placement this Summer Term could make a lasting difference to one of our students.
If you or your organisation can offer this opportunity, we will guide and support you every step of the way, making the process straightforward and manageable. We would love to hear from you — please contact Jodi, our Head of Partnerships ([email protected]).
