But when her school was asked to become the first in Scotland to run a Families And Schools Together (FAST) Programme, she agreed to putting food at the heart of the process to strengthen bonds between parents, children and school.
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Cooking up confidence
Turning the industrial cooking facilities of a school canteen into a household kitchen and then recreating the warmth and intimacy of a family dining room in the assembly hall for 16 separate families was definitely not part of Doreen Phillips’s primary teacher training in the 1960s.
