Classroom News
French Cooking with Naomi
Tarte Fine aux Pommes
Des pommes (some apples)
De la sucre (sugar)
De la Pâte feuilletée (puff pastry)
Du beurre (butter)
De la confiture (Jam)
Our Year 6 class class headed into the kitchen today with Naomi for their French Lesson. Students cooked while practising the French language they have been learning in class.
Using a knife (le couteau) to score the puff pastry (la pâte feuilletée) before laying some apples (les pommes) on top of a sprinkling of sugar (le sucre). After melting the butter (le beurre) a small amount was drizzled over the tarts. Some jam (la confiture) was added for shine before our Year 6 students baked and devoured the tarts.
Kitchen Garden
Our delicious spiced carrot muffins were on sale from the school canteen last Thursday. These yummy morsels were made by our kitchen garden students, and raised $50.35 profit!
This week, Kathryn's Year 4/5 Kitchen Garden crew jumped into the kitchen to prepare Beef Chow Mein for our whole-school Thursday Canteen Lunch. Students carefully worked at different stations to prepare each ingredient - dicing brown and spring onions, washing and slicing Bok choy and Wombok cabbage, grating carrots and zucchinis and browning off the delicious beef mince.
Well done everyone - you did a great job and the kitchen was smelling amazing! Thanks to Mason, Gunnar, Anthony, Norah, Grace, Phoeni and Alfie for helping prepare and serve in the canteen yesterday.
This was a very popular canteen lunch with students and staff with many going back for 3rds and 4ths. The $115 profit helps cover the cost of ingredients and support fundraising efforts for new gardening equipment for our school garden.
Thanking our First Responders
3-4K celebrated National First Responder Day by watching some videos and discussed what it means to be a first responder and the incredible service they provide to our community.
Check out our class WOW wall of posters! ❤️
Wellbeing
Last week during Year 4-6 wellbeing sessions with Steph, students practised their communication skills. Partners sat back to back and took turns to describe or draw a picture. There was lot of positive feedback from students around how much they enjoyed the activity and some great use of language as they described objects, their size and location.
Mixing age groups for lessons in certain areas of the curriculum has been a real highlight of our learning program this year. It has been exciting to see bonds develop between students of different ages and from different classes. They learn a lot from each other and develop and display a great sense of the whole school as one community.
Intergenerational Gardening
This week the year 4/5 kitchen garden group enjoyed their last session of Intergenerational Gardening for the term.
Thankyou Holly form Alpine Health and our amazing group of community volunteers for all your time, effort, kindness and energy working with our students.
Together, we have setup the 4 new wicking garden beds with netting/protection, seedlings and mulch as well as 2 composting systems at the Neighbourhood Centre.
The Intergenerational Program has been a unique and invaluable opportunity for our students to connect, learn and work alongside a range of wonderful people from our community. We enjoyed great discussions and knowledge sharing and look forward to continuing the partnership into the future.
