{"id":146286,"date":"2025-05-31T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146286\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:02:15","slug":"parents-bring-a-taste-of-the-world-to-port-glasgow-primary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146286\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents bring a taste of the world to Port Glasgow primary school"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARENTS have been cooking up a storm while kids get active in the gym hall at a Port Glasgow<\/a> primary school.<\/p>\n

Newark Primary has been running the ‘sports tea’ event over the last few weeks in partnership with Active Schools and Barnardo’s.Every week parents have come in to cook a variety of speciality of dishes from all over the world.<\/p>\n

Polish mum Magada Kopijka, whose 10-year-old son Mikolaj attends the school, was in charge this week.<\/p>\n

She said: “I was asked by the head teacher if I would come in to prepare some traditional Polish food.”<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old was showing staff how to make bigos stew, with pork, tomato sauce and sauerkraut and potato dumplings and waffles, served up with seasonal fruits.<\/p>\n

(Image: George Munro) She said: “I have lived here for nine years, I love Port Glasgow, I’ve never had any problem here.<\/p>\n

“I feel very much part of the community, I have lovely neighbours and work colleagues.”<\/p>\n

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Kim Guthrie, catering manager, was also enjoying the lesson, saying: “It’s great to get to try out new recipes. The food is really good.”<\/p>\n

Primary 3 teacher Lesley-Ann Docherty added: “This is my first week. Some of my pupils are at the session so I thought I’d stay behind.<\/p>\n

(Image: George Munro) “I’ve really enjoyed it. I’ve been making waffles and they smell amazing.”<\/p>\n

Depute head teacher Lisa McGroarty said the sessions had been well received.<\/p>\n

She said: “We’ve had Ukrainian, Brazilian, Indian and Italian food.<\/p>\n

“The whole idea was to reach out to our community, and it is something that we would like to continue in the future.<\/p>\n

(Image: George Munro)<\/p>\n

(Image: George Munro)<\/p>\n

“We always had our traditional sports tea which aims to offer pupils extra-curricular activities that pupils might not have access to before,\u00a0before while at the same time offering advice and help to parents through Barnardo’s family learning support.<\/p>\n

“Over the last few weeks we have parents in cooking between 2pm and 3pm, with one parent staying behind in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

“Then we have family learning sessions. Today we had a session for Sleep Scotland and next week we will have a visit from Heart Start Inverclyde<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

(Image: George Munro) Mrs McGroarty said the school also had plans to become a School of Sanctuary this session and to produce a cookbook.<\/p>\n

She said: “We’re trying to dovetail everything. These sessions aim to bring everyone together, with Active Schools and family support, and then we all sit down and eat together.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a great success.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARENTS have been cooking up a storm while kids get active in the gym hall at a Port…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[62922,62924,748,61009,918,4884,62926,62927,62923,36758,712,62925,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-146286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-active-schools","9":"tag-barnardo","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-george-munro","12":"tag-glasgow","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-head-teacher","15":"tag-magada-kopijka","16":"tag-newark-primary","17":"tag-port-glasgow","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-traditional-polish-food","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}