We went to pizza express as part of our food and health topic. Before we went on the trip, we did a risk assessment in groups and shared our answers.

At pizza express they showed us how to make a mozzarella pizza step by step which meant it was easy! “When we were making the pizza, they told us all of the ingredients for dough: water, oil, salt, sugar, flour, yeast” – Calum S.

We learned that the oldest olive tree that has ever lived is over 2000 years old! “Fungi is the Italian word for mushroom” – Rebecca

“They taught us how to flip dough in the air to make it bigger” Luca

“We had to put sauce in the middle of pizza dough and then tap the side of the pan to get to move round.”

We learned about hygiene and why you have to wash your hands and take off jewellery. We wore hat and apron to make the pizza.

In school we learned that cross contamination is when bacteria from one food goes into another food. You can use different chopping boards and put raw meat at the bottom of your fridge to stop cross contamination.

We learned about cooking, chilling and reheating food to make it safe to eat and learned the difference between best before dates and use by dates on food packaging.

This will be helpful in the future because we will be able to make food for ourselves and it will help us in home ec in high school.

Donovan, Emily and Nia

This week in P7b we have done a lot of fun things. On Tuesday, students from the University of West Scotland came in and taught us about dementia. First of all we did a quiz to see how much we knew. There were four stations. We learned that people with dementia have pins and needles all the time,  we mimicked how it felt by having a bag of rice in our shoes. For the second station we had our fingers taped together and we were blindfolded and had to try to put on clothes. In the next station we had our fingers taped again and we had to go in teams of 2, and try to lift up the peas with a fork. In the last station we wore goggles and glasses which changed the way we see. We had to try and complete a word search with the glasses on which showed how hard it would be for people with dementia. We also learned that there is more than one type of dementia.

In maths this week we have been learning how to find missing angles in different shapes. We also measured the area of squares and rectangles in outdoor learning.

We started a new topic about food and health. We learned what we should do before, during and after cooking to be hygienic. We learned about bacteria and how it can spread to different foods and it can harm you and give you food poisoning. We then learned how to safely store cooked food to make it safe to eat. We are going on an exciting trip next week to learn more about food and health- stay tuned to read all about it!

We continued to learn about substance misuse in Health and Wellbeing. We learned about the effects alcohol has on our bodies and how we could react to peer pressure.

By Bethany, Ellie, Megan.