Last week’s hot weather and the smaller group sizes while other pupils were on residential meant we could do some cooking in our Spanish sessions, and what better on a hot day than making gazpacho?
We watched a clip from a cookery programme in Spanish, then started work on all the chopping and blending. The best bit had to be sitting round the tables at the end drinking the gazpacho and eating bruschetta. I was impressed how many people came back for more!
Ever wondered how to buy a bottle of fizzy drink in Spain? Here’s how! 😉
We had a crafty session this afternoon in the KS2 enrichment time, making bats, dragonflies and swifts…
We were really lucky last week to take delivery of a box of wild flower seeds from Kew Gardens as part of the GrowWild campaign. The seeds are all for native wild flowers and we’ve planted them around the edge of the benches in the school garden. The KS1 group who planted them have been learning about bees and butterflies, so all know how much the flowers will be appreciated in the months to come.
(The photos below were all taken by pupils on an iPad).
Over the last five weeks our KS2 enrichment group has had huge fun making mini Lego movies using iPads. We downloaded the Lego Moviemaker app, designed the scenery and then got experimenting. Lots of us are looking forward to next half term so that we can make even better ones. In the meantime though, here are some examples of what the children have achieved.
By popular request, today’s enrichment session was all about bats. We started off looking at a live serotine bat called Rosie and then at pictures from Jessica’s amazing magazine collection. Afterwards we all made our own bats to take home, and you can see photos of them below!
In today’s KS2 enrichment session we made bird cakes. We followed the RSPB recipe for ‘speedy birdcake’ on their website. I don’t think any of the children would be tempted to eat these cakes (the lard didn’t smell too appetising) but they looked super. Next week we’ll hang them up around the school grounds and wait for the birds to enjoy them!
In our French lesson yesterday afternoon we made fortune tellers! On the outside we put numbers, on the inside colours and on the final layer we added questions about ourselves so that we can get lots of conversational practice. You’ll notice one of them looks a bit different as it has Braille as well as numbers…
I’ve just updated three pages on here to show some of the things we have been doing. You’ll find photos of some of the art work we’ve done and a selection of the finished videos made during our Tuesday afternoon sessions on the new ‘Enrichment’ page, videos of children counting on the Otter class’ page and conversations children had in French on the Culm page.
I’ve included one of my favourite video clips below: it combines wildlife, French and using a special FX app on our new iPads!