May 2022


Here is a round-up of the events at The Swan during May, 2022.

11th May: Quiz Night

Congratulations to Swan Patrol, winners after a tie break question. Seen here having cashed in their prize for some celebratory bubbles. Our lucky raffle winner also scooped a free drink but didn't walk off with the jackpot. This rolls over to our next event on 25th May when it will be worth a Swantastic £50!

Swan Patrol

12th May: Epic Thursday

A truly Epic Thursday this week as the students and Green Room School staff produced wonderful meals in our new Kitchen and served it to our many happy customers. In their own words ...

We had an AMAZING time yesterday for Epic Thursday! GR6 were absolutely privileged to be able to serve some of the first food out of The Swan's new wonderful kitchen! Great things lie ahead. We're so happy that we could serve so many customers such an amazing breakfast. We'll be doing it all again next Thursday with our Epic Brunch Menu.

Epic Thursdays allow the students to learn a range of skills for the future including coffee barrista, taking payments, serving, taking orders, preparing & cooking food and clearing up. All useful for getting a job in the future.

One of the students preparing the cutlery. Clearing up. The students at wok in The Kitchen. Coffee barista. Brunch as prepared by the students.
Lexie and Richard enjoying brunch. Some of the students celebrating the success. Taking a card payment. Sausages being prepared. Another brunch prepared by the students.
Getting feedback from the customers. Food preparation. Team working in The Kitchen. A brunch sandwich The Brunch Menu.

13th May: The W&E Dray

We were delighted to learn that the Windsor and Eton Brewery Dray would be doing the beer drop-off for our Kitchen opening. A great sight in Mill Lane and a great tradition that The Brewery is continuing.

Picture of The Dary from a post by The Brewery.
The horses and their equipment were emaculate.
Close-up of the W&E Dray.
The Dray outside The Swan.

13th May: Kitchen Test Day

After a significant amount of work over several years, and with covid to boot, The Kitchen is now open. Thanks to everyone involved in this fantastic achievement. All you have to do is try it for yourself.

Micky making a pizza.

Rolling the pizza base out.
Making the base nice and even.
Adding the tomato sauce.
Adding the cheese.

Customers enjoying the test food.

Pepperoni Pizza. Pepperoni Pizza.
Hamburger and Chips. Pepperoni Pizza.
Sausages and Mash. Pepperoni Pizza.
Fish and Chips. Pepperoni Pizza.

The team of staff and volunteers working in The Kitchen and front of house.

Pepperoni Pizza. Hamburger and Chips.
Hamburger and Chips.

Tasty test dishes by Josh, our new chef, with the assistance of Micky.

Pepperoni Pizza.
Hamburger and Chips.
Sausages and Mash.
Fish and Chips.

We are absolutely delighted that our newly opened Swan Kitchen has achieved a 5 Star Food Hygiene Rating. This is testament to the worl put in by the whole team.

25th May: Quiz Night

Congratulations to our worthy winners of this weeks Swan Quiz. A welcome return to the winners enclosure for Hetties Heroes and a first jackpot winner, Christopher Eadle, who chose the right envelope and bagged himself £50. Sadly for everyone else this means that the jackpot at the next quiz, 8 Jun, will start at £10.

Hettie's Heroes
Christopher Eadle, winner of the Jackpot of 25th May 2022

27th May: Coffee Morning

On the last Friday of every month we have a charity coffee morning for the local community. Baking is generously donated, and the bar team and students offer their time to help. Funds are raised for a chosen worthy cause.

This month we chose to support our local charity for 2022, the Family Friends. With nearly 50 people attending, we managed together to raise a whopping &#pound;432.36 for them. Thanks to every one who got involved.

Volunteers from Family Friends and The Friends of The Swan
The cake display
Family Friends
The Courtyard was busy

May Newsletters

Although our news page has all the newsletters, we thought it might be easier to access this month's ones from here.


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