This term P4 opened their own café as an enterprise project. This opportunity helped us to develop a number of skills for learning, life and work in the process.

• Learning about hygiene before and during food preparation
• Practising measurement when weighing ingredients and finding the correct volumes
• Finding out about profit/loss and what makes a business successful
• Learning about money, addition and subtraction so that we can calculate totals and change at our till
• Learning about safety while preparing and cooking food
• Practising our communication skills when interacting with customers
• Experiencing the variety of roles which make up one business

Our café was very well attended each week and we averaged over 50 guests on each of the five occasions that we opened. Before deducting the cost of equipment that we purchased for the café, we made a total profit of £835.75!

Due to the success of Dronley Delights café, we have covered all of the costs for a class trip to Edinburgh Zoo.  The children have decided that they would like to donate a further £300 to Guide Dogs for the Blind. We look forward to a visit from a dog and one of the trainers in the final week of term.

Dronley Delights would not have been so successful without the overwhelming generosity and support of the school community. Thank you to all of the adult volunteers who helped in school with baking, running the café and doing dishes! Thanks also to those who were busy baking at home and who generously donated items for sale. A special thanks to Mrs Reid for running a very successful after-school cooking club. The club was attended by 19 pupils across the four occasions it ran and was a lot of fun.

We thoroughly enjoyed the experience and hope that you did too!

Mr Johnston