CHILDREN at Tardebigge First School have been tasting some Victorian and wartime food as part of a week of events to celebrate the school’s 200th anniversary.
The school enjoyed a Victorian-themed day, and then spent time focussing on life during the second world war with a vintage afternoon tea for parents, children and friends of the school.
The school caterers Alliance in Partnership developed special menus to be served throughout the week in order to give the children a taste of times gone by, and they took part in a Victorian lunch where they dressed up in period costume, tried some Victorian school lessons, and enjoyed a lunch of baked ham or a vegetable stew called Hotch Potch, followed by sticky gingerbread.
Later in the week the children picked vegetables from the school’s own vegetable patch for a ‘Dig for Victory’ lunch, with ‘Off the Ration’ Toad in the Hole, Lord Woolton Vegetable Pie, named after the wartime minister for food, and a pudding of syrup loaf.
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