Author: Callie

From the 7th of January to the 12th 2022 we did a project on fast fashion.  Fast fashion is where people buy cheap clothes and they wear out very quickly so they have to buy more . This is a problem because it’s very wasteful and very bad for the environment  since they go to landfill. Did you know that children in child labour pick the cotton for these jeans and they spray it with acid and sand to get ripped jeans which causes the children to get sick and have lung diseases?

We did not like the idea of this and decided to make our own bags’ from old material. By doing this we learnt how to hand sew, use a sewing machine and I learned to use a popper tool. To practice for making the bag we all had to do mock-ups made out of paper, tape and staples.  I feel that when you make something for yourself you look after it more or if it cost a lot of money. On seesaw we have posted 2 seesaw activities one was a collage on bags we like and the other was a bag design with measurements and photos. When we finished our bags we had a fashion show with Mrs Macdonald and posted it on seesaw.

On Tuesday primary 5/6/7 had a google meet with Niall Kirkpatrick. He answered some questions of ours, told us all about what it was like when he used to work as a chef , and told us lots of cool facts like the most common dish he cooked was macaroni and fish fingers.

Did you know chefs that work on ferries make at least four hundred dishes a day? Ferries with cafés or restaurants normally use at least ten litres of milk a day on macaroni and drinks [not all ferries]. Normally people think that sharper knives cut you more often but actually blunt knives cut you more frequently; Sharper knives give you a more painful and sore cut.  Working as a chef would be interesting I think.

Endeavour is when everyone chooses something they want to learn more about  or something fun  they enjoy doing. Endeavour is something p5/6/7 do every year and they show there work and cool activities [you don’t have to do activities] they have learned about and think people would enjoy like a quiz’s or a poster. We show our  work by getting a  table and putting our work and learnings on that table and we have a fair and people go around the hall looking at other peoples work.

My Endeavour is cooking main course meals so I am going to put some sort of food on my table for people to try.

During my Endeavour I have done many things at home like cooking, sharing recipes, seeing family members to  teach them more cooking hacks and learning new ones and writing letters. I have also done thing at school like a website, a poster, a long term planner, cooked for the class  and  my swat analysis.

My family have helped me a lot with my Endeavour especially my mum and my granny. Mrs McFarlane has also helped me when I was cooking for the class.

I have made many meals but my favourites was feta cheese and tomato pasta,  vegetable hoisin pork, tomato sausage stew, lady apple homemade burgers and pork chops with a creamy right sauce and vegetables.