Blog by Tag: Cooking & Nutrition

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…

On their return to school this week 11R received their leavers hoodies which they all look very smart in. A big thank you to 11G staff from all of us for arranging them.   
This week there have been lots of activities going on. We have continued with our Environmental Awareness module looking at…

Today 11G have been learning all about what jeans for genes day is, why we celebrate it and we learnt some facts another different genetic conditions. We learnt that the money we contributed went to help support children and families with different genetic conditions. We all designed our…

Well our last full week in 7A has come around so quickly. We are looking forward to a few days of celebrations next week but this week in My Communication  we have been thinking about what we are looking forward to in Year 8. Most of us are looking forward to moving to a new classroom and…

What a fantastic day we had on Thursday. The morning started off with us identifying what we would like to buy for our dinner from ASDA. 

We then costed up prices as a meal deal and worked out how much money we could save if we pooled our money together. 

We walked to ASDA and split up into…

This month Willow class has been learning all about Ramadan and how Muslims practice their faith during this time. We also took part in the Ramadan kindness challenge of daily activities to spread kindness and happiness. 
On Thursday it was Eid so the children learnt all about what Eid is as a…

10G have worked hard to be super chefs today. We have been learning all about how to use technology at home, school and in the community. Yesterday we worked very hard to make ourselves a set of instructions in order to create our very own chocolate mug cake. We found out that we could use…