This week in cookery club we made chicken fajitas. We learnt about food hygiene and the importance of hand washing when working with raw meat. We also learnt knife skills and practised our cutting. The fajitas were delicious!
As part of our learning, in the lead up to Christmas, we have been discussing angels and whether or not we believe in them. Many religions talk about angels. Christians believe that angels are God’s special messengers and in the Christmas story angels bring special messages to various people. Today Read more…
This week in cookery club we made cheese and ham toasties. The children followed the recipe and built their sandwich before using the toastie machine to toast them. The smell coming from the classroom led to lots of hungry teachers wanting a toastie for tea.
This week the children requested that we make Rice Krispie cakes. We decided to give them a bonfire theme using buttercream icing and broken matchmakers. The children made the buttercream from scratch using butter and icing sugar and added orange food colouring to give us the fire effect. The end Read more…
This week in design technology we met ‘the Doodlers’. The Doodlers are fun robots powered by an electrical circuit and a motor. The children carried out an investigation in groups to determine the factors that affect the form and function of the Doodler. We changed parts such as the drawing Read more…
This week saw the start of our new cookery club. The children had lots of fun making their own ‘mummy pizzas’. We made our dough from scratch using greek yoghurt and flour and chose our own fillings. We filled our pizzas then overlapped our dough to give us the Read more…
This week we were fortunate enough to receive a visit from our local police force to teach us some valuable truck safety information. The children were surprised to learn how little a truck driver can see when a person is standing close to the front of the truck. The children Read more…
This half term we have been investigating ‘Separating Mixtures’ for our science topic. This week we conducted an investigation into formulations and mixtures using orange juice and water. The children had fun measuring out the quantities they needed for their formulations. Some of us even enjoyed a taste test at Read more…
Today we linked our forest school session with our current RE question ‘Why do some people believe God exists?’. We looked at the beauty of nature and discussed why our natural world could lead to a person being a theist. Some of our children created their own prayers based on Read more…
Today Year 5 Juniper had our first forest school session of the half term. The children discussed our value for this half term ‘Respect’ and created acrostic poems. We had fun freeze framing our summer activities as well as doing a bug and tree hunt and playing hide and seek.