A Wiltshire-based hospitality company, whose managing director is a member of the prestigious Royal Academy of Culinary Art, has praised the work experience efforts of a Kingsbury Green Academy student. Kate Rigby, in Year 11, met course director Judy Dain, of Devizes-based Vaughan’s Kitchen’s cookery school, at one of Kingsbury Green Academy’s regular careers fairs. She had long since had an interest in cooking, so was keen to take up the offer of an interview to do a work placement at the cookery school. “I felt very nervous before the interview but took some photos of food I’d cooked, and after two minutes of talking I felt really comfortable,” says Kate.