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March 2010
Lets Get Cooking—And we did!
By Aaron Peacock
This year our school was given some extra money to help teach our students to cook, as we have done in previous years.
This scheme is called ‘Let’s Get Cooking’ and the funding allows school to purchase ingredients and equipment so that pupils involved in the cooking club don’t have to pay for anything.
Mrs Donaldson and Mrs Convery run the sessions every Friday afternoon, with the help of three Year 8 pupils, chosen for their aptitude and reliability: Jasmin Cockburn, Aaron Peacock and Lauren Wilkin.
Year 7 preparing to make Chicken Biryani
For the first half of the spring term Year 6 pupils were taught how to make Rainbow Couscous and Pear and Peach Turnovers. They were both delicious.
For the second half of this term it was Year 7’s turn.
In groups of 8 or 9, pupils have been making Speedy Chicken Biryani which was a huge success as everyone loved it.
Both year groups have learnt new cooking skills such as using the ‘claw’ and ‘bridge’ methods to chop vegetables like onions, for example, as well as really enjoying themselves.
Next half term it will be Year 5’s turn to learn how to cook more delicious food.
Another event that ’Let’s Get Cooking’ funded, was held for Year 3 & 4 pupils from Embleton First School, who were invited into school to experience a Chinese Cuisine session involving Stir Fry Vegetables and Fortune Cookies! (As well as learning how to use chopsticks!!)
Embleton First School pupils ready to try out Chinese Cuisine!
Years 3 & 4 ICT Wizards
By Connor Gardner
Year 3 and 4 pupils from Embleton and Ellingham First schools have been coming into our school to complete a project run by Mrs Patterson, our ICT Coordinator. Mrs Patterson selected some Year 8’s to come along and help the little ones if they got stuck with anything.
Connor Gardner, Andrew Wright, Megan Reid, Bronwen Stout, Joe Carruthers and Amy Dawson were the helpers.
All were a bit nervous at the start because the Embleton and Ellingham pupils had never met us before, but we all made friends and became more relaxed.
The task the pupils were set was to make a presentation about their local area, or our area, Seahouses.
There was a choice of programs to use: PowerPoint, Movie Maker, Photo Story or any one used before in the first schools.
The majority of Year 3 and 4 chose to do their projects on Photo Story because they liked the look of it and they couldn’t wait to speak through the headset about what they had written on their Photo Story. Some of them wanted to get on with the speaking straight away because it was the most exciting bit of it.
Not everyone used Photo Story: quite a lot of children used PowerPoint because they thought that looked good as well. Some pupils did their project using a program that they had been taught at first school.
