Blog by Tag: Cooking & Nutrition

Well after our half term break 8A got straight back into our community visits and swimming lessons. This half term on a Monday and Tuesday we have cancelled our lunches and we are going for lunch to Seven Seas Fish and Chip shop in our community groups. Both groups really enjoyed their lunches and…

9A cooking activity this Tuesday was of course pancakes!

Miss Buck spilt the class into two halves. 

One group joined Ms Carter and Miss Howarth in the food tech room. 

They had to read the instructions about how to make a delicious pancake. 

The learners weighed out the…

This week Willow class explored pancakes during our kitchen safety activities. In our groups we identified hazards and risks making pancakes in the kitchen and what would be safe choices, if we were cooking pancakes. 

We had fun practicing flipping cold pancakes, discussing how we needed to be…

We all came back to school refreshed after our break and had a busy week back. We shared our holiday news with our friends on Monday. 

On Tuesday we celebrated pancake day by starting the day off with pancakes for breakfast.

On Wednesday afternoon we started our new ASDAN Topic Parental…

This half term 8P have been learning about healthy eating, including identifying the main food groups and what these foods do for our bodies. We have enjoyed tasting some different fruits and vegetables, such as mango, lychees and pomegranate. We also sorted the foods into their groups and…

Well we’ve made it through to half term and we are all more than ready for a rest. This week we’ve finished our visits to Asda and Cappuccino@the hub. The pupils have represented the school  very well and have been complimented on their excellent behaviour many times. We enjoyed some time on the…

Well this week our class as always had fun. Out and about on our usual community visits. We now have a table reservation when we visit the Cappuccino@the hub, and the pupils are gaining confidence with their independence. We have problem solved situations ourselves and asked for straws…

9A healthy cooking activity this week was to make a home made pizza on a tortilla wrap. 

On Monday morning, in Nurture Time, the class had to design their own pizza, choosing what topping they wanted. The toppings to choose from was ham, chicken and pepperoni, with additional toppings of onions…

Well another busy week in 8A. We started the week off celebrating Chinese New Year. Mrs Bentham brought some Chinese food in for us all to try and we made some Chinese dragons which are on the display board. 

We have been learning about how our heart works and we used stethoscopes to listen to…

11G celebrated Chinese New Year, the year of the rabbit, on Monday. We  looked at the year we were born to find out which animal was the zodiac symbol for that year. We learnt how to write our names in Chinese. Each pupil drew a picture of their zodiac symbol. Four of the learners went to the food…

This week was World Religion Week and 8A found out lots of things related to Hinduism. Some of the class were able to join 7A on a trip to the Hindu Temple in Preston. We found out about the different gods and were able to look around the beautiful temple.

Our community based trips also…

This week in school has been World Religion Week 11 G have been learning about Buddhism. We learnt who Buddha is and how their religion helps Buddhists with their feelings and emotions. 

In our Monday morning café we tried some different foods for breakfast,we had seeded bread for our toast,…