Black History Month was celebrated across the school in an extra special way this year, with a bespoke menu specially designed by members of the catering team and using many of their own beloved family recipes.
The school community enjoyed a wonderful range of savoury and sweet dishes throughout the month, with these dishes included in main courses, soups, side dishes, dessert and street food options. Dishes included vegetable jumbalaya, beef shito stew, callaloo soup with agege bread, fish yassa and waakye rice, with the crowd-pleaser puff-puff stealing the show for dessert.
Executive Chef Manager Peter Southgate said: “Our wonderful team of chefs collaborated to come up with an amazing menu for Black History Month. Much of it was based on what is eaten in their own family homes, and you can’t get more authentic than that. This was the staff’s time to shine and they did us proud. It was extremely popular with the children, and we have had countless pupils asking us if they can have puff-puff all year round!”
Black History Month is celebrated each year at Colfe’s, with the theme embedded in much of the learning across the school from History and English to PSHEE, alongside art displays around the school celebrating prominent historic, scientific and cultural figures within Black communities in the UK and around the world.
