The Role of Cooking
Discover how cooking activities support children's learning, confidence and independence.
Suitable for early years practitioners, childminders, nursery staff, preschool practitioners, room leaders and managers.
Course Details
✔ Explain why cooking activities are valuable in early years education.
✔ Understand how cooking supports learning across the EYFS.
✔ Promote healthy eating, confidence and independence through practical experiences.
✔ Create inclusive cooking activities that reflect children's needs, cultures and abilities.
✔ Reflect on your own practice and confidently plan meaningful cooking experiences.
Module 1: The Value of Cooking in the Early Years
- Why cooking experiences matter
- Benefits for children's learning and development
Module 2: Cooking and the EYFS Areas of Learning
- Communication and Language
- Physical Development
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
Module 3: Cooking, Wellbeing and Healthy Attitudes to Food
- Building confidence and independence
- Encouraging positive relationships with food
- Developing healthy habits
Module 4: Inclusion and Real-Life Learning Through Cooking
- Supporting cultural awareness
- Inclusive cooking experiences
- Everyday life skills
Module 5: Reflecting on and Developing Practice
- Evaluating cooking activities
- Planning improvements
- Embedding cooking into everyday provision
The course also includes interactive activities throughout and a short end-of-course quiz before you receive your certificate.
👶 Baby Room Practitioners
🧸 Nursery Practitioners
🏡 Childminders
⭐ Room Leaders
👩💼 Nursery Managers
🎓 Early Years Students and Apprentices