FESTIVE CAKE STALL - THIS FRIDAY

Classes VW & MS are invited to bake for the Festive Cake Sale, please. 

Remember to bring some pocket money to buy a treat on Friday!

If you can help the Friends with the sale please email Friends@hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk,

KS1 Seasonal Activities

 

KS1 have been keen scientists learning about the seasons and displaying their knowledge through art. As artists, they have used printing, painting, drawing and collage skills to create images to depict spring, summer, autumn and winter. Some of the Year 2 children used seasonal vegetables to make pumpkin soup which all of the children enjoyed tasting.

Stained Glass Biscuits in VW

On Wednesday, VW had the chance to get creative with some Christmas baking, making their own stained glass biscuits. 

They measured the ingredients with care and prepared the dough. After shaping the biscuits, they carefully made a hole in the center to add a colourful glacier sweet, creating the stained-glass effect. 

A big thank you to Mrs. Jenkins for organizing the activity and to Mrs. Skeggs for her support.

Let's get cooking!

 Nursery are lucky enough to have the wonderful Mrs Eyles come in on Thursdays to help us get creative in the kitchen. Throughout the year we have measured, poured, mixed, sieved, chopped and cooked many exciting things. Cooking has allowed the children to practice being hygienic and safe whilst tasting new foods. We have noticed changes to foods when we heat them up and cool them down such as toast and porridge. We made hedgehogs out of bread for Hedgehog Week and even enjoyed chopping vegetables to make soup.

We you hope have enjoyed seeing what lovely dishes your children have been making and even had a taste! 

Class KH share session

Class KH had a wonderful day baking cakes and making chocolate Easter nests where they followed recipes and used Fairtrade ingredients as part of our RE topic and Easter celebrations. Class KH really liked spending time with their families in their classroom doing creative activities. The children recited their Spring poem, decorated cakes and ate Easter nests, created Easter wreaths, made hatching chick puppets and Lego crosses. It was a really special afternoon and lots of fun!

Class JT Easter Share Session

Class JT had a fantastic afternoon sharing Easter activities with their families.

First, the children recited the Spring poem they have learnt this term to which they received a well-earned round of applause.

After a morning of Easter baking, the children couldn't wait to share their bakes and decorate some biscuits.  We made sure to use Fairtrade ingredients wherever possible.

The children decorated palm leaf crosses with beads and a tag, and completed the session by sharing Easter story books with their families.

It was lovely to have so many visitors in the class sharing in the children's creativity, activities and most of all the cake!

School Council help make new menu choices

Today we had two visitors from Quorn, Lizzy and Bobby. They came to demonstrate the importance of a healthy diet and how this can work in each of our diets. The school council absolutely loved tasting and learning about the different food groups and how food can play a big part of the environment as well as our body health. Obviously, Quorn is a vegetarian alternative protein to meat and the children learned about this.

The children from the School Council got involved in making Quorn sausage rolls and also helped with the making of the Quorn chicken chilli noodles. They both tasted delicious and shared these with the staff of the school.

The children were an asset to the school and came up with many interesting discussion points and talked about their own diet and food. SRH should be very proud of them, well done!

Back to Robin Wood with Class DR

This week, Class DR began our 2024 adventures in Robin Wood! 

Raiding our resources shed, the children played and explored the great outdoors; 

from finding worms and bugs to examine under magnifying glasses, making mud cupcakes in the kitchen and experimenting with tubes, balls and water.

We all thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Robin Wood... and are excited to return next week.

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Masterchef in the making!

Taste Testers for the Chinese menu

Today, our fabulous Head Cook, Mrs. Aldred, baked a wonderful dessert to trial  in preparation for next week’s Chinese New Year inspired lunch. School Council were enlisted to act as taste testers- here are some of their thoughts on the banana and toffee cakes:

“Lovely texture!”

“This is really tasty- I wouldn’t change a thing”

“It’s a thumbs- up from me!”

“This would be amazing with custard”

“I don’t normally like banana but this is really good!”

Cooking in School

It is Year 6’s turn to put their aprons and become chefs for the morning.

We are making Chicken Korma. It is made from scratch cutting up all the vegetables and raw meat.  This makes us realise the importance of handling raw meat carefully.  Some of us are a bit worried about the flavour, but most like it when they taste it.

We look at healthy eating afterwards and decide if we have cooked a balance meal.

Enchanted Woodland Topic

Here is a snapshot of our Enchanted Woodland Topic in Class KH! We have had lots of fun making tree boggarts, fairy and elf wands, fairy cakes and writing a diary as Stickman.