Blog by Tag: Cooking & Nutrition

This week Oak Class’ core word was ‘Go!’ Pupils responded to ready, steady, go across contexts including on the bikes.

We have also been studying Handa’s Surprise through song and sensory trays. Some beautiful artwork has been produced by expressing colour and media choices. Some of the boys…

Morrisons in Chorley kindly donated a £75 voucher for us to use in store on delicious healthy food and treats for our Holiday Club. We bought lots of lovely fruit, together with natural yoghurt and fruit juices so the children could make their own tasty but very healthy smoothies. We also bought…

Yesterday 10R visited Lytham Fairhaven Lake and The Pavilion Cafe. 
We had so much fun on the play park the pupils especially liked spinning Mrs Tolan until she couldn’t spin anymore! Our visit tied in nicely with our Food Technology topic this term of Picnic food, unfortunately…..they went down…

A day for amazing teamwork-we created our own pasta bake.

After we put the pasta on to cook- Alex M chopped the onion, Alex L the red pepper, Mason the redone and Calum the green one, Dylan chopped the courgette, Faith chopped the mushrooms, Hayden chopped the pepperoni and Amelia added…

Another fantastic event for 10G. We had a super time at the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations. We extended the skills we have developed through our café work experience to our hot dog stall. We used our communication, cooking, Maths and safety knowledge to run this successfully. We had roles of the…

Sycamore had a great time creating their own fruit salad today. They had to follow an individual instruction sheet, finding their own equipment and ingredients they need. Following their individual instructions they prepared their strawberries, apples and bananas and the group were really proud to…

This term Willow class are learning all about food and how to prepare it in our “The world about me” lessons.

This week we tied this in with our Eid celebrations by looking at different foods Muslim families eat to celebrate Eid. We had a look as a class at lots of different types of foods and…

Our Topic this term is My Healthy Lifestyle. We are continuing our cafe but extending the range of foods we offer. We will continue our work in the community by undertaking weekly visits to the library and supermarket. In the supermarket we are increasing our independence skills with individual…

What a wonderful and very messy time we had in Chestnut Class on Shrove Tuesday. During Stage 2 Attention Autism we watched Miss Spear create a pancake mixture and in Stage 3 we took turns to flip a pancake! Chestnut Class have been working very hard on their turn taking skills which require them…

Today Willow have been practicing our functional measurement skills through cookery. The children worked hard to follow a recipe to create a mini app,e crumble each. 
Everyone did an amazing job at applying their kitchen safety skills we practiced last week, making sure to use sharp equipment…

Last week we were delighted to re-open our Breakfast and After School clubs following a decrease in the number of positive COVID cases in school.

Breakfast Club takes place on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8:00am to 8:45am. Pupils can use our special menu to choose from a selection of…

In 8A for Children in Need this year we have decided to make and sell dog biscuits to staff. Josh designed an order form and Owen G, Daniel and Jake made some money boxes. JJ, Teddy, Megan, Amelia and Annie worked as a team to make the biscuits we used Pudsey Bear shape biscuit cutters to cut out…