KEY stage 2 Wimboldsley Primary School children were visited by Roberts Bakery to learn how to make the perfect loaf of bread.

28 Year 5 and Year 6 pupils from the Middlewich school swapped uniforms for aprons and mop caps as they were guided through each stage of the bread making process.

The budding bakers were given the tutorial by Paul Graves, who has worked for Northwich-based Roberts for 33 years.

He showed the children the craft of mixing and kneading their dough and shaping the loaves before baking.

Gemma Filder, class teacher at Wimboldsley Primary School, said: “This was a superb visit and the children were really excited about meeting a baking expert.

“It was so rewarding for them to learn that it’s easy and fun to make bread that looked and smelled so delicious from just a few ingredients.”

Roberts Bakery started in 1887 as a grocery store which sold freshly-baked bread to customers in Northwich.

Now, more than two million loaves a week are delivered throughout the north of England, north Wales and the Midlands.