Celtic Soup

 

How to make Celtic soup

Last week we made Celtic soup. We put in, two carrots, one leek, one stick of celery, parsley, ¼ of turnip, ½ cups of broth mix, 2 cups of water.

This is how to make the soup:1.First carefully peel the carrots.2.next slice the turnip up.3.After that chop the celery stick.4.then take off the skin of the leek then cut.5.Slice the carrots in half then slice the rest.6.Add the broth mix and the water to the pan.7.Put all of the ingredients in the pan with the broth mix and the water.8.After that cook the soup on a low heat for about 2 hours.9Then enjoy your home made soup.

And we made it in the Deveron building and we had fun making the soup.

 By Rachel and Charis P4B

New Tour Guides

Some of the p5s have worked very hard to pass their audition and have been chosen to become Huntly Castle Junior Tour Guides for when they come up to p6. They are now busy learning their scripts and getting training on how to be a good Tour guide. They have chosen their costumes, which are  really pretty. The launch of the new tourguides will take place some time in June.

Meanwhile the present p6 tour guides have started taking tours again. The week the are doing a tour for pupils who are travelling all the way from Dyce Primary School.

by ellie p6 blogger

by ellie p6b blogger

Fairtrade elections

The fairtrade elections are being held this week. Two people from each class will be elected as Fairtrtade rep and a fairtrade vice rep. Candidates will have to make a speech to their class, explaining why they would make a good fairtrade representative.

 The Fairtrade representatives  attend meetings and take part in the fairtrade school events like the fairtade tuck shop. They also make decisions about fairtrade activities in the school. Its fun being part of the fairtrade group. 

By Fiona P6 Blogger

Fairtrade Fortnight

Gordon Primary  joined in enthusiastically with Fairtrade Fortnight. All classes in the school made posters promoting this years’ Fairtrade campaign to make bananas fair “Stick with Foncho”

All posters included the Fairtrade logo, the website address (www.stickwithfoncho.org.uk) and some bananas. Posters were displayed around our school and the Secondary school.

The Fairtrade group also sold Fairtrade bananas at morning break in the glass corridor. These proved very popular and provided a healthy snack for pupils and staff. Pupils and staff were also invited to draw their own cartoon banana on a poster of a giant banana.

Parents, pupils and staff also sent in banana recipes which will be made into a leaflet which will be given out to all families.

The Nursery

The nursery went to local shops to find Fairtrade products.They enjoyed looking for food with the fairtrade logo.When they went to the local shops they bought some biscuits for them to eat. They also got some bananas to eat as well. They saw the sign in the window of the Stewarts hall telling us that Huntly is a Fairtrade town. They sat down and talked about fairtrade and fairtrade products .

Back in the nursery they made snack using the fairtrade products that they bought,  including some yummy fruit kebabs!

Some of the P6 fairtrade representatives went to the nursery to tell the children about the work of the school fairtrade group and about fairtrade fortnight. The nursery children also  bought bananas from the fairtrade banana tuckshop in the school.

by sophie p6b blogger

Strictlys in town

At school the P6s have been preparing for a ballroom dancing compition.  The compition is this Thursday and they will be dancing 3 dances (thats a lot of steps to remember and master!!) The first dance is the Elephant Walk which is the one everbody looks silly doing the second dance is the ballroom dance which is called the Quick Waltz and the third dance is the latin american dance called the Mambo. They will be compiting against Drumblade, Clatt, Ryhnie,  Forgue,  Gartly and a few more.

They will be away all Thursday morning and be back for the afternoon. Its very exciting and good luck to all of them.

By Fiona P6 Blogger.

Banana Recipes.

Thanks to Vicky Dunbar for this banana recipe

Vickys Free-From Banana Loaf, Gluten, Dairy, Egg, Soy & Nut-Free

320 grams – Gluten-Free Plain Flour Mix

2 teaspoon – Gluten-Free Baking Powder

2 teaspoon – baking soda / bicarb of soda

1 teaspoon – xanthan gum

1 teaspoon – salt

1 teaspoon – ground cinnamon

125 ml – olive oil plus extra for greasing

3 large – bananas, mashed well

150 ml – rice milk

150 ml – agave nectar

1/2 teaspoon – vanilla extract

150 grams – optional extras such as cherries, chocolate chips (I use Moo-Free brand), chopped walnuts etc

Prep time is 110 min, serves 20.

Directions

1 Preheat the oven to gas 3 / 170C / 162°C and grease 2 loaf tins

2 In a bowl combine the flour mix, baking powder & soda, xanthan gum, salt and cinnamon

3 Add the oil, agave nectar, rice milk and vanilla and stir until mixture is smooth

4 Stir in the mashed bananas & any optional extras you might like to add and split the mixture into the tins, they should fill around half way up

5 Bake for 35 minutes then turn the tins around and bake for a further 20 minutes

6 The loaf should bounce back when pressed lightly on top and a skewer test will indicate that it’s done

7 Let it sit in the tins for 20 minutes before removing and setting the loaves on a wire rack to cool

8 Cover the unsliced loaf with clingfilm and store in a lidded container for up to 3 days

9 This makes 2 banana loaves each with 10 servings