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In a small baking studio in Seorae Village.
We treat baking as making, not as dessert. A child learns the world through touch and colour, and works the small muscles of the hand.
Classes run in English from beginning to end. That does not mean a child needs good English to join. The hands move first and the words attach to them. Weighing 200 grams of flour, a child hears “two hundred grams”: not a word to memorise, but the number currently on the scale.
Ingredients come portioned in a kit, so a child on their first day finishes without borrowing an adult’s hands.
The small studio grew into neighbourhood spaces, from kindergarten outings to birthday parties. Today the classes run in studios across Seoul.
Baking is the easiest possible excuse to need English.
“Flour, butter, a pinch of salt.” A child uses the words because the recipe needs them, not because a worksheet does. Numbers at the scale, times at the oven.
Nine is what one teacher can actually watch: every child’s hands, every time. We don’t add a tenth seat.
Everything goes home in a box at the end. The class isn’t finished until it gets talked about again at home.
Fifty minutes, in four moves.
Name badges on, aprons tied. The first English of the day happens here: “Wash your hands, please.”
Each child takes the scale and says the ingredient and the number in English. They pour it, they check it.
Mix or ice, shape, decorate. In a class that bakes it goes into the oven, and while it bakes we walk through what comes next, in English.
Boxed, and one English sentence about what they made before they go.
Timings shift a little depending on the recipe.
The person who writes the classes, and the person standing next to your child in them.
Founder · Food Scientist
Founded AIFF School and writes every class. She rewrites the baking she learned in Britain to fit the size of a child’s hands and the length of their attention.
Class teacher · Youth ESL Expert
An experienced children’s English and baking instructor in Korea, specialising in American-style baking.
The cake is so pretty! Looks like it would taste good too.
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The giant cupcake is such a fresh idea, haha.
Message from a parent planning a first birthday
For the first time, I’m sorry I live on Jeju. Sob.
Message from Jeju
What the children made in past classes, the hands that made it, and the studios.
See the whole albumBook the whole studio for a birthday or a class group.
