Year 2 parle français!

Year 2 class have surprised us all today with a fantastic mini role play of some of their recent French learning. They have been leaning about the Weather and Days of the Week.

Here's a video of their performance!



Super les enfants!!!

Ceilidh Dance by Years 3 and 4

Years 3 and 4 have put together a video where they show off their dance skills. They have been practising a ceilidh (Scottish Country Dance) called The Dashing White Sergeant. Here they are: 

Here are some basic instructions:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (turn)

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, (stop. Get into 2 groups of 3 facing each other)

Out, in, dance with your partner

Out, in, dance with your partner

Dance with your partner, Dance with your partner, Dance with your partner (Back to threes)

1,2 (forward), stamp, stamp, stamp

1,2 (backward), clap, clap, clap

1,2,3,4 (one of the threes goes through the other three)

5,6,7,8 (join another three that walks towards them)

Start again

Top Tip: In each group of 6 children decide who is the group of three that only lifts arms up to let the other group pass. This group should not move on. Instead, they should be joined by a moving three. 

Next half term, children from Turkey, Spain, Italy and Poland will be learning this dance. We will be learning one of their dances too. We can't wait to show you the final result!

Teeth and Healthy Eating

Our lovely school nurse, Fiona, visited Year 3 today to talk about Teeth and Healthy Eating. Here's a snapshot of our learning!

If you're not sure how to, when or why brush your teeth, be sure to ask Year 3! They are experts now!

Try to answer our small Quiz now by writing the answers in the comment section with your name and class:

1. When should you brush your teeth?

a) After Breakfast and Before Dinner

b) After Breakfast and Before Bed

c) Before Breakfast and Before Bed

2. How should you brush your teeth?
a) Up and down, starting at the top
b) Up and down, starting at the bottom
c) Sideways, starting at the top
d) Sideways, starting at the bottom

3. What is a good way of keeping your teeth fresh if you don't have your tooth brush handy?
a) Put toothpaste on a finger and brush
b) Drink water
c) Drink milk

4. How can we take care of our teeth? 
There are three things you can do. Check the video for the answer.

Good luck!

Packed Lunch Policy

The children of St Faiths have voted and made up guidelines for a healthy packed lunch. A healthy packed lunch should help improve your child’s attention, behaviour and learning.

The children have used a traffic light system to sort food.

Green foods - You can have as many as you like every day!

Fruit

Vegetables

Fish 

Yoghurt 

Fruit Juice

Salad 

Chicken

Fromage Frais

Dried Fruit (such as raisins)

Amber Foods - Two from this group each day.

Bread 

Bagels

Pasta

Rice

Eggs

Cheese

Meat

Red Foods —One from this group.

Cake

Cereal bars

Chocolate Spread

Crisps

Cheese Strings

Desserts (including yoghurt based ones where you add sweets or chocolate)

Biscuits

Jelly

Crackers

Mini Cheddars

Cheese Dunkers

The following items the children have decided SHOULD NOT be in Packed Lunches:

Chocolate 

Pepperami

Fizzy Drinks 

Sweets

Lunchables 

Sausage Rolls

Fruit Winders 

Nuts

Chocolate drinks

Juice based drinks such as Fruit shoots (many so called juice drinks are really only juice flavoured sugary water)

We now leave you with some ideas for Healthy Sandwiches:

- Tuna and sweetcorn

- Ham and coleslaw

- Egg and tomato

- Chicken and Salad

- Humous and celery

- Cottage cheese and pineapple

In addition to all this, there are Packed Lunch Targets each week which are set and checked at lunch time by our lovely Teaching Assistants.

We hope the above was informative. If you've got any questions, just leave us a message and we'll try to answer them here.

Packed Lunches and Healthy Eating

We have finally managed to put together all the work we've done last Half Term. Take a look at the video we have made of our Family Worship on the 6th January 2012.

Don't forget to leave a comment. It would be nice to hear from our readers! :)

A Healthy and Balanced Diet

Last Thursday we were lucky to have a Theatre Company come to our school to talk to us about Balanced Diets and Healthy Lifestyles.

We have taken pictures and added some comments to them. Take a look at our video and let us know what you thought of it!

Anton, Eve, Natalia and Leshay participated in the play by doing some exercise. Here they are in action:

Remember... Stay Healthy!

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!