Meet the Team: Katy Barrett

What is your role at Leiths? 

Head of Education Services – my team and I are responsible for the day-to-day administration of all our courses here at Leiths Education, as well as being the exams officer too. 

What did you do before you worked at Leiths?  

I taught the Leiths CTH Level 3 course to 6^th form at a school in Cheltenham for six years.  

Don’t overthink this. Favourite herb?  

Rosemary 

Tell us your top three carbs and rank them in order:  

Bread, rice, new potatoes 

What’s your go-to easy Monday night dinner?  

One-pot ginger chicken rice 

What’s your ‘can’t live without’ pantry staple aside?

Sriracha 

What’s a restaurant you’ve always wanted to go to?  

Core by Clare Smyth 

Favourite pasta shape and what sauce should we pair it with?  

Orzo in a pasta bake with chorizo, courgette and lemon  

What’s your most splattered cookbook?  

The one my mum made for me with all her recipes in

What’s your most loved kitchen utensil? 

My small, angled palette knife 

Tell us about more about the Leiths Education Portal  

We wanted to design a platform for teachers and students that would help to make their very busy lives as easy as possible. It is how we share all the teaching resources with our Partner Schools around the country delivering KS1-KS5 courses, from lesson plans, scalable shopping lists, to recipes and skills videos. Having been a food teacher myself and talking with our Partner Schools teachers and students; I worked closely with our developers to build the LE Portal to make it as easy and fun to use as possible. 

You can find out more about the Leiths Education Portal here.