A business which usually delivers cookery lessons in school has come up with an innovative way to keep children entertained during lockdown.

James Deveney, who runs Classroom Kitchen, has jumped behind the camera so that children can learn to cook in their own homes.

Mr Deveney, known as Mr D to the kids, creates easy-to-follow recipes with a simple list of ingredients and posts a video online each day showing them how to do everything.

Mr Deveney said: "We normally go into schools and deliver talks which we can't do now, but I didn't want to be sat around doing nothing.

"So we've done the online classes and we've been sending them out, to make people more aware of the business. We've done lots of competitions too and we've had lots of replies.

"It's doing something a bit different for the kids and family out there. Facebook's been a great way to share videos too and reach out to people.

"I'm a primary school teacher myself and I started the business a few years ago teaching cooking and nutrition in schools.

"Now we're stuck at home, but we don't want to be not doing anything because we are small business, we've not got a lot of work right now and obviously it may take a while for things to go back to normal.

"Lots of my friends have kids at home and the schools we usually work with have all sent their kids home. It's a difficult for parents to home school. We believe actually that now's a good opportunity to teach kids life skills and more practical things like cooking.

"Our recipes are mainly for healthy things but we've got a few treats in there too. The ingredients are quite limited, such as rice and baking ingredients.

"We use the same ingredients across some of the recipes, so the other day we did home-made pizza with tortilla wraps for the base, but then the next day we did burritos so they could use the wraps again.

"We've had such great feedback, parents have said that it keeps the kids entertained and one mum wrote how it gives her 15 minutes a day to put the washing out.

"It means a lot to me, obviously we've not got any work coming in but it's good to be doing something with our time, helping people and making a difference.

"People have been sending us their pictures of the recipes and sharing the videos, we even had someone in Canada sharing one of the videos.

"I try to angle the videos to how I would teach in the class room, it's normal, basic cooking, nothing complicated.

"It's not easy and its not something I've done before but it's a nice thing to do and keeps kids from driving mum and dad mad."

You can watch the recipe videos on their Facebook Page Classroom Kitchen.