Free flour for primary schools

Carlisle-based Carrs Breadmaker - part of Carr's Flour - has also released a free bread making education module for primary school teachers. Caroline Dale marketing manager for Carrs Breadmaker said: "We want to do as much as we can to help teachers encourage their pupils to make healthy, nutritious homemade bread." The bread making module was devised in conjunction with Solway Community Technology College and four feeder primary schools, near the company's mill at Silloth in Cumbria. Cumbria Healthy Eating has endorsed the project. The breadmaking education module, which is aimed at nine and ten-year-olds, was successfully trialled with pupils from Silloth, Allonby, Holm Cultram Abbey and Holme St Cuthbert primary schools. Julia Cooper, Head of Design Technology at Solway Community Technology College said there was a lot of enthusiasm from the pupils: "Not only were their loaves delicious but their design folders - explaining how they approached this project as well as the history of flour itself - were first-rate." Jan Clark of Cumbria Healthy Eating described the module as a "splendid way of getting younger children to think about what goes into the food they eat at a time of rising obesity." Carrs Breadmaker is also offering twelve free breadmaking machines to schools over the next year. Each one will be awarded monthly to a school judged to have submitted an outstanding portfolio of work after using the education module. For further information about the free flour, the education module and opportunity to win a breadmaking machine go to www.carrsbreadmaker.info