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Cookery - Breads of the World

Course code: IPXV003P

Subject area: Cookery

Study level: Part Time

Course level: U

Course details

Course time:

19:00 - 21:00

Days of week:

Wednesday

Course date:

11th Jun 2025 - 2nd Jul 2025

Course location:

Cheney School

Contact details

Phone:

01235 555 585

Travel around the fascinating world of bread making and explore their secrets.
Your tutor has been successfully baking and selling Focaccia and Ciabatta for over 17 years.

• Explore the secrets of soft but fully flavoured Focaccia, Pizza and Ciabatta.• Have fun shaping French Fougasse, baguette, brioche, doughnuts and Georgian Kachapuri bread. • Make Pitta, Naan and the most delicious Pane Pugliese using the dutch oven technique and alternative flours.

For our first session you will be making ‘A British Loaf of Bread (Sandwich Tin)’. You will need to bring the following ingredients and equipment:

Ingredients: • 250g strong white bread flour• 50g whole meal flour• 3g fresh yeast (or 2g dried yeast)• 195g water• 6g saltOptional: pumpkin and sunflower seeds

Equipment:• A large mixing bowl • 1 fork• 1 measuring jug• 1 scale• Clingfilm• Tea towel• 1 x 500ml sandwich baking tin (will need to fit 500g water)

In order to avoid disappointment, it is advisable to enrol at least 2 ½ weeks prior to the course starting. We will confirm course information two weeks prior to the start date.

No refreshments available, please bring your own.Free parking onsite.

Abingdon and Witney College is subject to Ofsted regulation and is required to work with all its students to make sure they understand Government initiatives around Safeguarding, Prevent and Fundamental British Values. Information on these matters will be shared with you during your course.

You will also be asked to complete monitoring paperwork, which helps us to deliver course content to the highest quality.

What next?
Oxfordshire Adult Learning offer a wide range of similar workshops and courses, please check our website for further information.
Entry criteria
All welcome.

Courses can fill fast, so please enrol early to avoid disappointment. Decisions on whether a course is to run are made two weeks prior to the start date - an email will be sent to you should there be changes to your course or if it is cancelled. Please check your inbox leading up to your course, including the junk folders. For anyone without an email account, our Admissions team will phone you instead.

For the first week of the course you will need to bring a valid form of identification; this includes passport, driving licence, debit/credit card, Birth Certificate or National Insurance card.

Please note - you should be 19 years old or over at 31st August 2024 prior to starting the course.

Fee information
The cost of ingredients you need to bring should total no more than £10 per session.

Courses offered by the college are fully or partly funded by the Government and the published fee takes account of this funding.

Before starting a course, the College is required to check you meet conditions relating to that funding, e.g. age, residency status within the UK/EEA, prior qualification level and employment status. In some circumstances (such as with online enrolments), these checks can only be completed after you have enrolled and paid.

If you are unable to pay in full for this course at the time of enrolment, and the course tuition fee is £300 or more, an instalment plan is available. If this is your preference, please do not enrol online but rather call the Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to enrol.

Once enrolled, Admissions will take the first instalment payment from you and pass on your details to the Finance team who will email you to set-up your payment plan. Please return a fully completed instalment plan to Finance as failure to do so could result in being withdrawn from your course.

The rules on fee reduction are complicated, we would encourage you to talk to our Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to discuss these options. You can find more information on our Fees and Bursaries page - search "Fees and Bursaries" at the top of the page.

Course fees

19+ Fee:

Tuition Fee: £76.80

Exam Fee: £0.00

Total Cost: £76.80

19+ Reduced Fee:

Tuition Fee: £38.40

Exam Fee: £0.00

Total Cost: £38.40

Qualifications received
As this is a non-accredited course, there is no formal qualification. However, you will be asked to complete activities that demonstrate how you are progressing on your course.
Learning & method assessment
As this is a non-accredited course, informal methods of assessment will be used.
There will be on going informal assessment via question and answers, observation and tasting with feedback given on how to improve if relevant.
To track your progress and achievement you will be required to complete a short document.