Daily Archives: November 7, 2012

Healthy Eating

Bread Making in the Early Years and Primary 1

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The Early Years and Primay 1 have been learning all about bread – what it is made from and how it is made. There was even a taster session of the bread that the classes made, which proved very successful!

The children saw the basic ingredients of

flour

yeast

salt

sugar

water

and learned how to recognize them.

The children of the Early Years were kindly given a bag of dried wheat by an East Neuk of Fife farmer, Mr Ashworth. The wheat grains were spread out on a tray and they children ‘milled’ the grains by hand to make flour! The children worked very hard because it is difficult to grind the grains. They saw what was inside wheat and discussed their findings. They were proud that their flour wasadded to the ingredients for the bread baked later that day.They learned to follow a bread recipe.

All the children made sure that they followed good hygiene guidelines by washing their hands and making sure long hair was tied back.

We used bread making machines.

The smell of baking bread filled the infant and Eary Years area!

What did the children think?

“We were clever at baking bread” Jackson

“It was good making bread” Owen

“It was for the giant!” Ben

“When Mrs Faulkner showed us the bread I thought yummy!” Calum

“I liked making the bread” Josh

“We were very clever making it” Jenna

“It tasted so good” Nathan

“Thank you for showing us how to make bread” Emma

“It was fun!” Misk

“I shared it with the giant!” Franki

“It was exciting” Zac

“It was healthy” Dale

“The classroom smelled nice” Jack

“Making bread was good” Andrew

“The classroom smelled of bread” Philip

 

Physical Activity and Sport

Inter House Basketball Tournament

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At the beginning of October the Primary 7’s took part in the first Inter House Basketball Tournament at Glebelands. The weather stayed fair for most of the afternoon so that most matches were played outside in the MUGA. Each house had a squad of players made up of P7’s.

Discovery – Scott L, Ryan, Bilal, Arron, Robert, Nadia, Erin, Megan, Shannon, Hagar, Amy, Jack, Jordan.

McManus – Rhaigan, Dani, Nicole, Seykat, Connor, Jaden, Amirah, Ideeb, Holly , Dylan.

Slessor – Brandon, Jay, Daniel, Scott H, Lewis, Mikaela, Holly, Aqsaa, Beth, Sara. 

Unicorn – Usmaan, Anna, Shannon, Nicole, Rebecca, Gurlshan, Hamish, Logan, Sheryar, Ben, Daniel, Shubho.                                                                             

The House Captains and Vice Captains picked the teams for each match following the rules that

  • Everyone on the squad must play atleast one match
  • There must be at least 2 girls on court at any one time
  • The referree’s decision is final

All Houses were very well supported by other classes who spent part of the afternoon watching the games.

Results

Unicorn V Slessor            3-4

Discovery V McManus   2-2

Slessor V Discovery        4-5

McManus V Unicorn       1-1

Unicorn V Discovery      0-4

Slessor V McManus         4-1

Points

Win – 3        Draw – 1        Loss – 0

Final Result 

1st – Discovery        7pts

2nd – Slessor            6pts

3rd= – McManus and Unicorn        2pts

From the referree’s point of view, all the children who took part played very well – they all worked for their team and were very supportive of each other. They all respected the other teams before, during and after the games. All the P7’s were good role models for other classes in the school community.

Ryan D

Me Scoring a wonder basket against McManus 

Last October there was a massive Basketball tournament involving both primary seven classes. The teams were based on the four school houses (Discovery, Slessor, McManus and Unicorn) and every team played every team. I am in Discovery and guess what… We Won! Our first match was against McManus but we drew 2-2 with them. Our second match was against Slessor and we won 5-3. So that meant we would have to win against Unicorn to win the cup. Right enough we absolutely scubbed them 4-0 and won the cup. Our top scorer was Robert but I was second top scorer for Discovery. 

Well done to all those involved in this tournament!