Category Archives: Kitchen

We are Bakers

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As part of our ‘HOOK’ for our new story The Little Red Hen, we made some delicious soda bread. We gathered together all of the ingredients and followed a recipe to make our bread. Once baked, all of the children tasted the bread and gave it a big thumbs up. We will be working towards writing our own recipe over the next couple of weeks for the children to bring home and maybe make their own bread at home.

Year 1 – English – Making Gingerbread Men

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Last week Year 1 enjoyed making Gingerbread Men in the kitchen. As part of our English we are learning about how to read and write instructions. The children followed a set of instructions in order to make their biscuits. We focused on the verbs like empty, mix, roll, knead, cut and decorate and now we will continue to focus on other features of instructions like bullet points, numbered instructions and pictures so that we can eventually write our own.

The children enjoyed their baking experience and we were lucky because non of the Gingerbread men ran away!

Pumpkin soup

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Today the children made their very own pumpkin soup! They all got a chance to visit our school kitchen and got to learn how to be safe whilst in the kitchen. They were all brilliant at chopping up the vegetables, stirring the pan of food, sprinkling the salt and using the blender. We all enjoyed tasting the soup with a small slice of bread.

Year 1 – Design and Technology – Fruit Kebabs

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For our cooking and nutrition part of Design and Technology Year 1 made fruit kebabs.

First we thought about where fruit comes from in the world and we were amazed that the fruit we buy from our local supermarkets is actually grown in much hotter countries. Bananas from Brazil, grapes from India, blueberries from Spain and tangerines from South Africa. Then we discovered that the strawberries were from the UK and we talked about how they can be grown here during our summer months.

We then tasted all of the fruit and designed what we wanted our fruit kebabs to look like. Afterthat, we went into the Children’s Kitchen and explored how to prepare the fruit by washing them, peeling and chopping them. We made our fruit kebabs and displayed some great kitchen skills and finally we got to eat them and they were delicious!

Year 1S – Making Gingerbread Men

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Year 1 are starting to learn about reading and writing instructions in our English lessons. So, yesterday we went to the kitchen and followed a set of instructions on how to make a Gingerbread Man. The children were amazing at pouring, mixing, kneading, rolling and cutting to create their biscuits. The children really enjoyed decorating them and they made sure they ate their Gingerbread Man before he RAN AWAY!