Primary School Workshops

How to be a Fine Chocolate Taster.

What better way for children to learn science, history, geography, citizenship and enterprise than through chocolate? And who better to teach them about chocolate than a certified chocolate taster and international chocolate judge?

Most children love chocolate and the idea of growing up to be a chocolate taster or entrepreneur opens up a whole new world of possibilities!

(School workshops are currently on hold due to COVID-19 restrictions. New forms of delivery are currently being risk assessed. Please contact me for further details.)

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HOW IT WORKS

I deliver workshops to individual classes or larger groups of up to 45 students. Each workshop lasts 90 minutes and sessions can be run back to back where necessary. Workshops are adapted to your year groups and tailored to focus on your choice of topics and subjects.

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PART ONE: Tree to Bar

An audio and visual presentation taking students on a journey back to the Aztec empire, to the equator and the rainforest, before returning home to the chocolate factory of your local bean-to-bar maker. This section can be tailored to match your curriculum needs.

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PART TWO: Tasting Fine Chocolate

A practical session with group tasting exercises to identify tongue tastes and aromas. Students are then taught the art of tasting using cocoa beans and fine chocolate, and challenged to identify different flavour profiles and origins.

Book a Workshop

Prices start at just £150 per workshop including all samples, ingredients and resources. Please contact me for availability and to request a full learning proposal.

CONTACT DETAILS

Children engaged from start to finish

The workshop was fun, informative and presented in a way in which the children were engaged from start to end. We learned more in an afternoon than we could ever learn visiting large confectionery companies which offer similar themed visits and workshops.

Y6 Teacher Delivery: February 2020

Balanced excitement with learning

Fantastic session which balanced the excitement of eating chocolate, with learning the history of chocolate production.

Y3 Teacher Delivery: March 2019

Well planned and organised

The practical session was extremely well planned and organised - no time was wasted getting things out or preparing for activities. The learning was well layered, starting with an understanding of different types of tastes and applying this to tasting the chocolate.
The children were extremely enthusiastic about what they had done and learned.

Y5 Teacher Delivery: November 2019