Year 1 Design Technology
Year 1 Design Technology
The children enjoyed learning how to thread a needle in design technology today. They used binca to practise a running stitch.
Water between our fingers and sand between our toes!
This week’s warm weather has called for a variety of sand and water play in nursery. The children have enjoyed exchanging wellies for bare feet in the sand and have explored pouring, funnelling and spooning water both in indoor and outdoor water play. The children have been cooperating in much…
Vietnamese Summer Rolls
Year 5 have enjoyed making Vietnamese Summer Rolls.
After discussing the Asian diet and how it is different to that of the UK, the children prepared in small groups their own rolls.
The children created fact files about food and nutrition and evaluated their rolls. They explained how they…
Play-dough fun
The children love making play dough with an adult at the start of the week. Lately the children have been using shells and pebbles to enhance their creations.
Design & Technology: PotatoRosti
We talked about the differences between processed food and fresh food. The children then used peeling, grating and squeezing techniques to make their own potato rosti, which could be a healthy breakfast or snack.
Food and Nutrition: Overnight Oats
The children learnt about different types of food and then they made a healthy breakfast by layering oats with fruit they had chopped themselves.
Making Sandwiches in Nursery
This week the children have been listening to and following instructions to make sandwiches. They chose their fillings and talked about where our foods come from. Their spreading and cutting skills are certainly improving!
Fruit salad
The children have made fruit salads this week! First, we explored fruits and vegetables and the difference between them. We then carefully prepared melon, pineapple, strawberries, banana and tangerines to add to our own fruit salad!
Fruit lollies
Fruit lollies were a perfect choice to make on our warm week in nursery A. The children used cutting skills to prepare the soft fruit and distributed them into ice lolly moulds, after calculating how much fruit we would need. After that the children practised their pouring by adding water before…
It’s a Wrap!
As part of our learning about food in nursery this week we have made our own wraps. We had a variety of fillings to choose from to create our perfect taste sensation. We had to think carefully about how much filling to use. Too many and the wrap will fall apart, too few and the wrap may be…
Making healthy snacks in Nursery B
This week we have been talking about healthy snacks and made our own wraps. The children were able to describe the different tastes, colours and shapes of the fillings. They carefully cut up the tomatoes and cucumber and then added what they wanted to their wraps to take home for lunch. Well done…
Fruit Trees
In our food technology session this weeek, the children have been creating fruit trees using a variety of fruit and bread sticks. They then enjoyed eating them as a tasty snack.