For schools / Nurseries
04. Nutrition & Wellbeing
Introducing age-appropriate nutrition concepts through experience rather than instruction alone.
02. Food Literacy
Helping children understand food, ingredients and everyday choices.
03. Curiosity & Exploratio
Encouraging children to observe, question, experiment and discover.
01. Practical Life Skills
Building confidence and independence through real-life experiences.
05. Culture & Connection
Using food to explore traditions, communities and the world around us.
06. Sustainability
Building awareness of where food comes from and our relationship with it.
Food is part of children's everyday lives — and a powerful environment for learning.
Why Food Learning?
Flexible Ways to Work Together
BESPOKE PROGRAMME DESIGN
New food-learning experiences developed around a specific educational objective, initiative or brief.
CORE PROGRAMMES
Ready-developed Cooking Lama programmes that can be delivered in their existing format or adapted to your learners and context.
ADAPTED PROGRAMMES
Existing programme concepts adapted around a particular age group, learning objective, curriculum connection or institutional context.
Choose a proven starting point or bring us an objective you would like to explore.
Bring us a learning objective, theme or initiative and we can explore an appropriate food-learning approach together.
START WITH YOUR OBJECTIVE
Choose an existing Cooking Lama programme and use it as designed or adapt it to your learners and context.
START WITH A PROVEN PROGRAMME
Whether we begin with an existing programme or a new brief, we consider the learners' age and stage, learning objectives, educational context and practical environment.
Delivery is led by the Cooking Lama team, with educator support and capability-building options available for selected programmes.
Delivery is led by the Cooking Lama team, with educator support and capability-building options available for selected programmes.
Starting Point That Fits Your Needs
WITH OR WITHOUT A KITCHEN
Experiences can be designed for professional kitchen environments or spaces with no dedicated cooking facilities.
FROM SMALL GROUPS TO 30 CHILDREN
Formats can work with small learning groups or larger groups of up to 30 children.
EARLY YEARS TO PRIMARY
Experiences are designed for children from age 2, with activities, level of independence and learning approach adapted to their age and developmental stage.
DIFFERENT LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Schools, nurseries, cultural institutions and community spaces.
Designed for Real Learning Environments
From nursery classrooms and school spaces to cultural venues and large-scale public activations, Cooking Lama experiences can be designed for different learners, group sizes and environments.
Experience in Action
South View School
Hands-on food experiences within a school learning environment.
Bright Bites
Large-scale hands-on food experiences designed for high-volume delivery and long run.
Dubai Culture
Food experiences delivered within cultural and community settings.
Maple Bear Nursery
Age-adapted hands-on experiences for Early Years learners.
