Cookery Club (24/2/12)

This week we made Scones, but our scones had a twist, instead of raisins we used chocolate chips!!! yummy!!!!Here is the recipe;
Scones (makes about 16)

16oz (450g) Self Raising flour

2 pinch of salt
2oz (50g) caster sugar
4oz (100g) margarine – block
4oz (100g) chocolate chips
2 medium egg, beaten with milk to make ½ pint (250ml)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 220 c.
2. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
3. Mix the salt and flour into a mixing bowl and cut the margarine into cubes.
4. Using your fingertips lightly rub the margarine into the flour until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. Don’t over rub.
5. Stir in the sugar and chocolate chips.
6. With a round-blade knife, mix the egg and milk mix into the flour, leaving a little for brushing the tops. You should have a soft dough, moist but not too sticky.
7. Turn the dough onto a floured board or worktop and knead it very lightly. Do this by folding the dough from the outside to the centre, turning the dough until it is smooth and firm with no cracks.
8. Dust a rolling pin with a little flour and, on a floured surface, roll the dough firmly and evenly until it is about 1cm thick. Do not roll the dough thinner than this.
9. Take a pastry cutter (5cm) across, dip it in flour, and cut out scone shapes – you should get approx 16.
10. Bake the scones in the top of the over for about 10 minutes.
11. The scone should be soft inside, crisp and golden outside. Cool on a wire rack.

- A scone dough should be soft and spongy. Handle very lightly for best results.

Horse Club week 7

This week we have been looking at how to feed a horse.

These are the foods we looked at.  From left to right they are;
Apple flavoured horse treats
Pony nuts
Mollichop - chopped hay flavoured with molasses
Mix
Apples and Carrots

We also smelled hay and haylage and talked about the differences..............do you remember what they are???

We all touched and smelled the foods and some brave people tried the apple treats.......they said they didn't taste like apple!!!!

 we then got busy writing all about the foods in our horse books.

A big congratulations to Horse Clubber H.  She brought in some fantastic work in her horse book that she had done at home.

See you next week trot on!!

February - Dough Models and Printing

Cookery Club (10/2/12)

This week in cookery club we made flapjack, here is the recipe;

SYRUP FLAPJACKS

Makes 10

Ingredients
100g (4oz) margarine
1 tablespoon golden syrup
100g (4oz) sugar
50g (2oz) oats
50g (2oz) self raising flour
75g (3oz) crushed cornflakes.

Method
1. Heat oven to 190 c, 375 f, Gas Mark 5.

2. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
3. Melt the margarine and syrup together gently (on a low heat) in a saucepan.
4. Mix the sugar, oats, flour and cornflakes in a bowl.
5. Pour the margarine mixture, over the dry ingredients and mix well.
6. Spread evenly onto tray and press down firmly to keep the layer thin.
7. Bake in oven for 15-20 mins until firm.
8. Let it set for 5 minutes, then cut into squares while still warm, then leave to cool.

Boot Camp AKA Walls Workout

Children working up a sweat.

Friday 3rd February

Art Straw pictures and models

Cookery Class (3/2/12)

This week cookery club made (delicious) Chocolate Biscuits, here's the recipe; Chocolate Biscuits

Makes approximately 20

Ingredients;

225g (8oz) self raising flour
100g (4oz) caster sugar
3 table spoons cocoa powder, sieved

100g (4oz) margarine

3 table spoons milk
Few drops vanilla essence

Method;

1)      Heat oven to 190c, 373f, gas mark 5.
2)    Line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.
3)    Mix flour, sugar and cocoa in a bowl and rub in the margarine.
4)   Add the milk and essence and mix well.
5)    Bring together with your hands and knead lightly on a floured surface.
6)   Roll out to 1/2 cm thick and cut into rounds.
7)    Place on the lined baking tray and bake for 8-10 minutes.
8)    Remove from the baking tray and cool.

Horse club week 5

This week we looked at creating our own horse racing silks.  We used the Darleykids website that we had looked at in our first week to give us some ideas about design and colours.

The results were fantastically colourful..........although they might not be legal on a British Race course!

Great work everyone you all word so hard.

p.s. do you remember the unusual item of clothing that jockeys wear????

See you next week, trot on!

Horse club week 4

This week we have been looking at a Grooming Kit which is all the brushes and combs that are used to clean your horse.  We used the fantastic website, yourstables.co.uk which has a video of someone grooming their horse.  You can find the clip using this address
http://www.yourstables.co.uk/html_video_pages?page=grooming

We then played the grooming kit game which saw two teams racing against each other to find given items of grooming kit.  It was a close contest with everyone showing excellent knowledge.

Great work guys your horse knowledge is getting better every week.

see you next week trot on!

Animation Club 3rd February

Using duplo, lego and wooden construction, the children have made some more animation movies.

Selecting the equipment needed to make the animation

Moving the object

This is what we see on screen

A tragic collision

Oh dear!

Alex and Kieran's home