Pupils take on baking challenge

A group of Dunedin primary school pupils are putting their baking to the ultimate test by sharing it with elderly people at a retirement village.

Green Island School pupil Ava Creasey and her friends spent their playtime on Monday in the kitchen baking raspberry, cranberry, oat and vanilla cookies for the residents at Chatsford retirement village, in Mosgiel.

Yesterday the pupils delivered the cookies to the residents.

The baking was a part of the community service portion of the William Pike Challenge, which included an outdoors challenge and a passion project as well.

Ava said the baking did come with some challenges including getting distracted by the trampoline and forgetting about the timer.

Green Island School pupil Ava Creasey, 11 offers Chatsford retirement village residents, from...
Green Island School pupil Ava Creasey, 11 offers Chatsford retirement village residents, from left, Pauline King and Carol Short cookies as her group members Tammy Rumble, 12, Olivia Larson, 12, and Joyciana Parima, 11, look on. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY
"We burnt some which was quite annoying so we had to scrape those off, we only had a limited amount of cookies."

However, she said next week would make up for it because the group was planning on baking brownies for the residents.

Other groups taking part in the challenge were picking up rubbish on the beach and cleaning off graffiti for their community service.

The pupils would be hiking the Pineapple Track next week for their outdoors challenge.

mark.john@odt.co.nz

 

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