Catering students from Thomas Clarkson Academy are gaining hands-on experience in the industry at the Wisbech Rose Fair.

A group of GCSE students from Year 9 are spending 3 days at the event where they will be serving sandwiches, teas and coffees and helping to prepare the Rose Fair’s popular strawberry teas. Others will be on car park duty and handing out Rose Fair leaflets.

Food technology teacher Jayne Thorpe said: “Most of them want to be chefs as a career. This is an opportunity for them to gain in confidence, improve their problem solving by dealing with customers and get experience of working with food outside of the classroom.

“It is a great experience for them. They are all exemplary students and excellent cooks. The feedback so far has been that they are the best students the school has ever sent. I am really proud of them.”

Our budding chefs are working in the catering marquee by St Peter’s Church until Friday 4^th July.