This week in Design and Technology, we learnt how to follow a recipe and make Eton Mess. We chopped and mashed some strawberries, crushed some meringues, stirred in some Greek yoghurt and sweetened it up with a sprinkle of caster sugar. It was delicious!
Author: Sian Chatha
In Design and Technology, we have been exploring why we cook our food. We discovered that cooking our food makes it taste better, safer to eat, easier to digest, last longer and softer and more edible. Here are some photos of us feeling some uncooked pasta and risotto rice and discussing why we can’t eat these foods uncooked. We also
This week in year 2 we have been learning about common nouns and proper nouns. We sorted words into groups with a partner and took part in a ‘Proper Noun Hunt’.
We have been learning to tell the time to the nearest quarter of an hour and 5 minutes. We used the clocks to consolidate our learning.
We had lots of fun baking our own dessert shop style cookie dough in skills academy! Firstly, we used pre-made cookie dough and pressed it into tin ramekins. Next, we baked it in the oven. After that we got to choose our own toppings. We added melted white chocolate, sprinkles, marshmallows and ice cream. It was delicious!
In science, we are conducting an investigation using cress seeds, to see if water is an important variable when growing plants. We have each predicted whether the cup ‘with water’ or ‘without water’ will germinate. We also got to plant our own sunflower seeds too!