High Rise Community Bakery 

Grade 3 & 4 Excursion

High Rise Community Bakery Visits Years 3 & 4

Year 3s and 4s at Fitzroy Primary were fortunate to have the wonderful opportunity to walk and visit High Rise Community Bakery for two separate learning sessions about bread production.

Children’s learning at the bakery linked both to their Inquiry learning on local food production and their learning as part of the school’s Kitchen Garden program. Students took part in different stages of bread production including mixing the dough, shaping the dough, and adding toppings to the bread.

 Year 3s observed the baking process in the wood fired oven and tasted their bread. Students enjoyed a chat to locals about their community garden plots and asked interesting questions about the produce being grown.

Children were highly engaged in both sessions with Tara and Cass and wrote fantastic recounts of their morning at the bakery. Thank you to Tara , Cass and all the volunteers we met at High Rose Community Bakery and Fitzroy Primary looks forward to visiting again.  Enjoy this wonderful account of the morning by Aeson 3N:

"Today we made bread at the bakery with two kind women called Casey and Tara. I learned that you must have flour, yeast, water, and salt to make the dough. My bread had a little rosemary flower on top and Nico had spelt his name with the rosemary. We also got to put sesame seeds on top of the bread. I also found out about a plant called Taro by asking the gardeners. Our bread was cooked in a really hot wood fire oven. Casey used corn meal on the tray so the bread wouldn’t become sticky and burnt."

-Aeson 3 N