Travel Training and Life Skills
Our PI's (Pre-interns) recently went to Pizza Express in Ilkley with Catherine Kingdom at Community Rail, as part of a Travel Training day.
Employability skills include knowing how to commute there, so these training days are valuable for showing interns how to find the timetables, purchase a ticket, get through ticket barriers and find the right platform.
This particular visit to Pizza Express also doubled as Life Skills training, because the interns were taught how to make pizzas!
Some of our interns may not have used the trains or cooked their own meals before, so this was a big first step towards being independent.
Additionally, they had a glimpse into a professional kitchen which might've "fed" imaginations about potential career paths!
Nathan (our new LSA) told us about this in more detail:
“Upon arriving at the station and during the train journey itself the interns were asked to recall some facts and information that they had learnt the day before which they were able to do brilliantly showing a good understanding of the process of getting on a train and how to be safe around them.
When we got to Pizza Express we were given a brief bit of history about the restaurant and how it has changed and developed over time as everyone put their aprons on and hats that the staff had provided. The interns were then shown how to make a margherita pizza and went through the process of forming a crust with the dough by pushing it to the edges of the tray, adding the passata and spreading it around evenly then finally adding the the mozzarella cheese on top to finish it off before the staff put them in the oven. During each step the interns asked brilliant questions surrounding the ingredients used and showed a great amount of interest into how the food is prepared behind the scenes and reasons for using certain ingredients over others.
To finish off the workshop the staff at Pizza Express explained to the interns the many roles involved within a restaurant including the front of house and the kitchen staff to the managers and the cleaners. The staff members then very kindly allowed the interns to come around into the kitchen where they were given a closer look at their work space and shown the fridges, freezers, storage and office spaces which they don't normally do during these workshops but the interns loved it. They were asking plenty of questions in regards to who works where and what their given role would be and gained a great insight into what it takes to work in a restaurant and within the hospitality sector.”
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