Mexico or U.K.? Bread-making and family tasting of soups and breads

A day of excitement started with making our Mexican and English breads...

Preparing the tables for the tasting session, including questionnaires to get feedback about how the soups taste to inform our evaluations...

Thank you to all who visited to taste our soups and breads- there was such a lovely atmosphere in our classroom and the children really enjoyed sharing their foods with you...

Once our visitors had tasted, it was our turn!

For our 100 memorable events, we have made a meal for others to enjoy...

Well done to Kestrel Class; you were so responsible and welcoming. You have made everybody very proud.

Christmas Decorations Afternoon

Some Kestrel Class pupils took the lead of mixed age groups today, helping the younger children as they moved around the school to carry out different craft activities. Our purpose was to work together  with older and/ or younger children and make decorations for home or school. As always, behaviour was exemplary and the children supported one another beautifully. Well done to all!

Today's group leaders...

Festive activities...

Happy Christmas to everyone.

Mexico or U.K.? Soup and bread!

As part of our topic on Latin America, we are making soups and breads using seasonal ingredients from Mexico or the United Kingdom. 

Today we have continued our research and preparations for next Tuesday's tasting session, to which our families will be invited!

Looking forward to the tasting!

Multicultural Games

Every class in the school had a session with Mr Massey today, learning different games from around the world. This will help us with ideas for new games to play at playtime, to help to keep us fit! At the end of the morning, everyone came together to show some of the games they had played.

Flags being held up show where games we learned about today are played. This isn't even all of the flags!

Here are some of us doing some French Skipping, with elastics. Mr Massey told us that this game actually originated in China about 250 years ago!

Some new French Skipping elastics have been purchased for use at playtimes; fun that will carry on from today...

What is the climate like in different parts of the world? Mini-biomes...

In Geography we have been researching biomes. These are parts of the world with a distinct climate and associated plant and animal-life. 

Now that we know what the climate is like in those different biomes- how much precipitation they have and the temperatures they experience- we are trying to re-create those conditions in a plastic cup! The cups are now spread around the school, including the temperate woodland under a cool bench, the tundra biome in the freezer and the rainforest wedged behind a radiator!

We will wait to see how the grass seed grows in these different biomes...

Fun instructions

Having fun today, preparing some ideas for writing instructions...

We'll done to all of Kestrel Class for some excellent writing. Two of us received Headteacher's Awards for producing 'best ever' writing. Congratulations!

Black History Day

Today we have been finding out about Nelson Mandela for Black History Day, spending the morning in groups of children of every age. Each group has gone to different places and different teachers around the school to reflect on the life of Nelson Mandela, words he said and things he did. 

Our group leaders were all from Kestrel Class and this group of children have now lead a group- one of our 100 Memorable Events. Well done to you all- you looked after your group and guided them around the school, also being excellent role models for them. 

Here are our group leaders...