As part of our D&T Come Dine with Me topic, we looked at how the ingredients we will be using, make it to the shelves in the supermarket. We looked at how they are grown, picked, packed, shipped and delivered across different continents around the globe or from within Read more…
Today we have had our next Linking Project meeting day with our partner school, Ashfield Valley. Thanks to Touchstones, we had workshops creating shadow puppet workshops and a body movement workshop both were based around the book ‘The Crown’ It was so much fun meeting up with our partner school. Read more…
We found this lesson quite a challenge when threading needles and tying knots in the thread. However, we persevered and we believed in ourselves! In the end, we did it! Look at our lovely work practising cross stitch and running stitch.
This half term we are designing and creating our own stuffed toys. The children have been working really hard on deciding the theme and shapes they will need and choosing and cutting the right fabrics pieces. This week we have practised using a blanket stitch. Next week we will be Read more…
To finish off our D.T unit, We make rainbow tarts using our cooking/peeling and chopping skills which we have developed this half term. Here are some pictures of us enjoying our creation.
This week was our last week for Cookery Club so we’ve ended with a Christmas Rocky Road. This was really easy and lots of fun to make and of course tasted delicious. The children enjoyed sampling the sweets and chocolates whilst they were making the rocky road too.
This week may be the favourite week yet. We have made sausage rolls using: sausage meat, apple sauce, sage, egg, poppy seeds and pastry. The children had fun squeezing out the sausage meat then stirring in the apple and sage. We shaped the sausagemeat into a log across the pastry Read more…
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!
Children loved foraging for their materials to create their wreaths. They loved designing how they will lay it out and how many berries they want to put on. Well done everyone!
