Making Christmas Muffins

Just before we went on our Christmas break we made Yogurt Muffins which we then decorated with Christmas motifs.

Our lovely teaching assistant Jade helped us make and bake our muffins in groups of six. She had a recipe and showed us how to follow it.

First, we read the list of ingredients and tools needed:
- 1 cup of natural yogurt
- 2 cups of self raising flour
- 1 cup of caster sugar
- 1/2 cup of vegetable oil
- 4 whole eggs
- A pinch of salt
- Muffin baking tray
- Wooden spoon
- 1 big plastic bowl

Then, we mixed all the ingredients together:
Empty the contents of the yogurt into the plastic bowl. Use the yogurt cup to measure the sugar, the oil and the flour. Add the 4 whole eggs and a pinch of salt. Mix it all together with the wooden spoon until you get an even batter (without lumps). Get your baking tray out and place a bit of batter in each muffin space. DON'T fill it all up because the batter will grow and then your muffins won't look as good.
They are now ready to be baked!

After that, we put our muffins in the oven for about 10 minutes:
The baking time depends on how big your muffins are. We made small ones because we wanted to have 2 each so 10 minutes was enough. You can use this recipe to make a big cake too, but baking time would probably be around 30 minutes.

Finally, we got to decorate our muffins. Some children decided to eat their muffins. Others gave them as presents to their family or friends. This was great fun!


Try our recipe and let us know what you thought of it!
Suggestion - these muffins are also delicious with fruit. Just cut some apples, pears or whatever you like in little pieces and add to the batter before baking.

Here we are making our muffins:

Happy New Year to you all!

Jingle Bells by Year 3

Here's Year 3 singing the English version of Jingle Bells. Partners in the other schools have done the same in their own languages! You can check out their blogs if you want to learn it in Spanish, Italian, Polish or Turkish.

Here are the lyrics in case you want to sing along with them.

Dashing through the snow

In a one-horse open sleigh

O'er the fields we go

Laughing all the way

Bells on bobtail ring

Making spirits bright

What fun it is to laugh and sing

A sleighing song tonight!

(chorus)

Jingle bells, jingle bells,

Jingle all the way.

Oh! what fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh.

Jingle bells, jingle bells,

Jingle all the way;

Oh! what fun it is to ride

In a one-horse open sleigh.

Now the ground is white

Go it while you're young,

Take the girls tonight

and sing this sleighing song;

Just get a bobtailed bay

Two forty as his speed

Hitch him to an open sleigh

And crack! you'll take the lead.

|: chorus :|

Making Christmas Cards to send to our Partners

We have been busy making Christmas Cards for our Comenius Partners. Nursery and Year 3 are writing to Poland; Reception and Year 4 to Turkey; Year 1 and Year 5 to Italy; Year 2 and Year 6 chose Spain.

Here's Year 3 making theirs. They have used paints, sequins, pastels, colouring pencils and much more to create a collage for their cards. They had lots of fun making them!

We will be sending our cards next week and can't wait to get their cards through the post! Hurry up Mr Postman!

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Listen and see our Year 3 class singing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

What do you think of their singing?

Christmas in London

Watch this video of London during Christmas time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7qLT2lP5a8&feature=related

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Ho Ho Ho

Christmas is Coming to Town!

At St. Faith's we are starting to get really busy with Christmas Activities. Displays and Christmas Cards are being done, the KS1 Nativity Play is being rehearsed, we're getting ready for our joint Carol Service with St. Anne's school and so much more.


Here's a link about Christmas Traditions in the UK.
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/


Watch this space as we'll be sharing some of our work with you very soon!


Merry Christmas!

Comenius Corner

We have created a Comenius Corner at school in the atrium on the way to the Lunch, PE and Collective Worship Hall. There you will find the latest work done by our children and sent by our partner schools.

In November we are focusing on Personal Health. We will be talking about Healthy Eating and Healthy Packed Lunches. We will send some information home at the end of it so that parents can help us become as healthy as possible.

In December we will be sending Christmas Cards to each other and exchanging some typical recipes.

We can't wait to show you everything!

St. Faith's by Year 6

In Year 6, children have made Power Point Presentations about the school, with the main focus on staff. Here is Brandon and Flora's:

Haven't they done a great job?! :)

St. Faith's Presentations to Partners

All children and staff at St. Faith's have contributed to the presentation of our school to the other European partners. Each year group focused on a different aspect of school life. Then Lynda and Mrs Thomson put everything together in this video. Enjoy!

Our Local Area - Wandsworth Town

Year 3 have prepared a presentation about our Local Area to show the other European schools.

The children you hear singing in the background are all St. Faith's children during Whole School Singing Practise on Thursdays with Mrs Thomson.

We hope you like it!



Playground Games by Year 4



Logo Competition - Runners up

Here are our runners up for the logo competition by class:

Year 1 - Esha

Year 2 - Lilly

Year 3 - Mayan

Year 4 - Isis

Year 5 - Chardonnay

Year 6 - Emily

Their logos will be used to make the border of our 1-2-3 Health Display in the school atrium!

Once more, congratulations to everyone!!

We have a logo!!

St. Faith's held a whole school competition to create a logo for our 1-2-3 Health Project. All KS1 and KS2 classes were involved and showed great creativity! Here's the winning logo:

Congratulations to Donna in Year 6!!

There is one runner up from each class and we will be uploading them very soon!

Thank you again to all children at St. Faith's. It was great to see everyone trying so hard!! Keep it up!

St. Faith's goes International!

A new Academic Year begins and a European Adventure starts with it. St. Faith's C of E Primary School has joined forces with four other European primary schools to participate in a 2-Year Comenius Project (2011-2013). The other participating schools are from the following countries:

- Asturias, Spain

- Mersin, Turkey

- Radziejow, Poland

- Baveno, Italy

The project is called 1-2-3 HEALTH. All participating schools will focus their activities on the study of personal, social and environmental health. Children will have the chance to participate in all activities related to this project. 

All the work produced by all children in the different countries will be shared through this blog, mail, post and any other fun and accessible ways available. 

We hope St. Faith's children enjoy this international project and become more aware of their health and of Europe as a result of it. 

Best Wishes and Good Work!