P1a used potatoes and onions from our school garden to make bangers and mash! It was delicious and we hope that Mrs Martin enjoyed it. Thank you to Mrs Kelly for helping us!
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Lunch Menu and PE Timetable for w/b 21 September 2015
Please take a few minutes to plan ahead with your child. Thanks
P5 Cooking Challenge
Primary 5 worked in groups today to research some recipes for the Ready, Steady Cook challenge. Groups focussed on recipes with potatoes and onions as part of the ingredients to make sure we were using what we had grown in the garden. Keep following the blog to find out which recipe is chosen through a vote and what the final dish looks like!
Ready, Steady Cook!
We are proud to launch our class cooking challenge, Ready, Steady Cook!
Every class have been provided with potatoes and onions grown in our school garden. The challenge is to design, prepare, cook and serve a dish using the garden produce, ingredients from our dry store and a maximum of two other ingredients.
Classes will be judged on creativity, taste and presentation!
What do you think your class should cook?
Good luck everyone. 
Primary Six In The Garden
Primary six took advantage of our recent good weather and got working to maintain our school gardens. Pupils worked hard litter picking, raking, weeding and preparing our vegetable beds for planting.
Primary Six were also busy rehearsing for our school show ‘Is this the way to Amarillo?’ and I think that we are almost there!
We have been set a challenge to choose a recipe that includes onions and potatoes grown in our own school garden. We will be judged on flavour, presentation and originality! Pupils have been researching and found a huge variety of recipes to choose from. We now need to decide which will beat the competition!
Snack Time in the Nursery
The boys and girls have been enjoying some delicious healthy snacks in the nursery this week. They prepared the potatoes and vegetables from the nursery garden for soup. It was very tasty!
Glenmanor Achieve Success at Chryston Horticultural Show!
Glenmanor pupils did exceptionally well at Chryston Horticultural Society Annual Show today. Well done everyone! Read on to find out who won what!
Moodiesburn and Chryston District Pipe Band played outside Chryston High School Cultural Centre and Tom Clarke officially opened the show.
Inter Schools Challenge (age 10 and over) – We won the inter schools challenge with some very stiff competiton from Chryston High School! Their garden produce was outstanding! They grew these fantastic vegetables in their poly tunnel and we hope thar our garden academy can do the same this year!
Here are our inter school entries below. The red rosettes are first and the blue are second. 6 points for 1st and 3 points for 2nd. Our total score was 18! Here are two of our pupils collecting the trophy on behalf of Glenmanor.
Decorated Cupcakes (age 10 and over) – Abby was 1st, Susannah was 2nd and Sophie was 3rd.
Greetings Cards (age 10 and over) – Jenna was 1st, Monique was 2nd and Leah was 3rd.
Garden in Miniature (age 10 and over) – Our P7 groups won 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
Creation or Craft (age 10 and over) – Abby was 1st and Beth was 2nd.
Krispie Cakes (age 9 and under) – P1a were 1st, P1b were 2nd and Campbell was 3rd.
Creation or Craft (age 9 and under) – Niamh was 1st and Macie was 2nd.
Greetings Cards (age 9 and under) – Oliver was 1st, Amy was 2nd and Kayley was 3rd.
Vase of Garden Flowers (age 9 and under) – Mrs Charles and her pupils won 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
Our Entries for Chryston Horticultural Show
Good luck to all pupils whose work has been entered in the garden show. Some of the entries are featured below.
Our garden club have entered the inter schools challenge where they had to create a garden produce display (3 shown), create a Mr Potato Head (2 shown), display 3 potatoes (not shown) and show their heaviest potato (not shown).
Pla and P1b created lovely krispie cakes and the three best from each class have been entered.
Our focus on food academy baked and decorated cupckaes and the best three are shown below.
Several classes created greetings cards and their own creations for the show.
Mrs Charles worked with pupils to arrange vases of garden flowers.
P4-7 Leadership Academies 26 August 2015
Our senior pupils had a great time in their academies today. Their first task was to discuss and agree on 3 outcomes they want to achieve this year and start to plan how they will be successful. We will share these outcomes with you very soon!
It was harvest time for the garden academy. Mrs Quinn showed the pupils how to dig up carrots, onions and potatoes and they also started weeding the flat beds. Many of the sunflowers planted by P3 last term have grown tall and strong. They look lovely in our garden. I wonder what they will cook in our learning kitchen with their produce?
Our focus on food academy baked cupcakes this morning and decorated them this afternoon with the support and guidance of Mrs Martin, Mrs Ritchie, Ms Gillespie, Mrs Bowden and Mrs Duncan. Thank you Mrs Home and Mrs Armour for donating cup cake items today! We had a great time!
I was delighted to choose the top three designs to enter the Chryston Horticultural Society Annual Show on Saturday. Good luck!
The eco committee worked hard to develop their ideas for school improvement. Mrs Grant was very impressed!
The fairtrade committee created designs for their own logo and came up with some great suggestions to raise awareness of fairtrade and fund raise at the same time. Mrs McDaid thinks that her team will do very well this year and she has been amazed by their great ideas. Well done!
The Pupil Council were designing school mascots today. I wonder what the winning design will be? Mrs Fisher will reveal this exciting information very soon!
Ths sports leadership academy worked hard with Ross Sweeney, (Active Schools Co-ordinator), Mrs Green (Parent) and Mrs McCluskey (Classroom Assistant). They spilt into 3 teams to plan a “Road to Rio’ Running Challenge for P4-7 pupils during lunchtimes. They have many events to lead this year including our nursery and primary sports days.
Our enterprise committee have many great ideas for whole school events this year such as a junior master chef challenge and a talent show. I am confident that Ms Brunton will lead her leaders to put on some fantastic events this year!
Thank You Letters to Stewart Collins
Our P5/6 pupils really enjoyed their visit from Stewart Collins, Butcher and Chef Adrian. They all wrote letters to thank them for a fantastic day. Well done to Sienna and Sophie whose thank you letters were chosen to be handed in to Stewart Collins. He featured your letters on his facebook page and you can view the link below –
