Bread Baking at Robert Frost Middle Serves Educational, Charitable Needs

Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School recently hosted the King Arthur Flour Life Skills Bread Baking Program, a special culinary workshop that teaches students important educational concepts while also providing a valuable service to the community.

King Arthur Flour baking instructor Amy Driscoll was on hand in the school’s cafe to demonstrate how bread is made, assisted by Frost students Mohammad Abdullah and Ajay Decleus. 

The participating seventh- and eighth-graders learned practical mathematical skills like measurement as well as the scientific processes behind the making of several varieties of bread. 

Each student was provided the materials to bake two loaves at home, one to keep and another destined for local charities to help feed those in need. The bread baking program at Frost donated 285 loaves of bread and bread-making supplies to two soup kitchens, the Shepherd’s Table in Deer Park and the Mercy INN in Wyandanch. 

“King Arthur’s Life Skills Bread Baking Program provides our students with the opportunity to help others in the community while enhancing the real-world skills they are already learning in school – math, science, reading, following directions and problem solving,” said Deer Park FACS and social studies curriculum associate Heather Stewart. “We are extremely proud of our family and consumer science department for making this program possible.”

Info/photos courtesy of Greg Fasolino/Syntax