We have been working on our personal projects in class, We picked our own topic to research and had to stick to the following criteria:

Your project must

• Have a front cover with a title, picture, author and illustrator
• Have a contents page
• Have a blurb on the back page
• Have page numbers

This morning in P4/3 we wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather so we took our classroom outside. We did some comprehension, some reading and of course we had some time to play/keep fit on the Trim Trail.

P4/3 were given the challenge of creating their own smoothie. Sounds fun right? It’s never that straight forward with us ;-). We had set criteria

1. It must contain at least 2 of the 5 food groups,
2. It must cost less than £2.00 to make,
3. It should be as healthy as possible – each food item was given a points value based on its nutritional value,
4. It must be written in recipe form.

We made a plan on how to best attack this problem by breaking it down into manageable chunks. We also identified the skills required.

Sam – I’m going to have kiwi and grapes because they’re 10p. I’ll add fromage frais for my second food group then it means I can add lots more fruit to make it healthy.

Ben – We’ve made it really healthy. We used all fruit and spent £2.00. (5 minutes later) – We took away 1 pineapple so we could add milk.

Brendan/Scot – Honey as it’s sweet, sugary, better than chocolate sauce – it’s healthier. Banana is cheap and delicious.

Aaron – I’ll add milk and honey. Milk is good for you and honey is healthy because it is made by bees.

As part of health week we found out different ways to keep our bodies healthy, by keeping a balanced diet and exercising. Sometimes our mental health gets forgotten about but we discussed the power of positive thoughts and used a search engine to find inspirational quotes. We used these to make posters which we have displayed throughout the school to remind everyone that they are special and deserve love and care too! Some of our favourite quotes were – ‘Let your smile change the world but don’t let the world change your smile’. ‘Be the rainbow in someone’s cloud’.

We really enjoyed orienteering activities during health week.