A visit from Zoo Lab!

 Zoo Lab came to Bitterne Manor today! The children loved seeing the minibeasts, including a giant snail, snake, centipede, frog, cockroach and even a tarantula! We found out lots of interesting facts and also had the chance to hold most of the minibeasts! 

Year R have fun at Hawthorns!

Year R enjoyed a sunny day at Hawthorns learning lots of facts about minibeasts! We played lots of fun games, including becoming squirrels and hiding our food, becoming birds and searching for caterpillars and putting on blind folds and becoming a giant centipede! Well done Year R!

Year 3 Cricket

Year 3 are making fantastic progress in the very difficult skill of bowling. Trying to keep that arm straight is very difficult.

Year 2 recreate the Great Fire!

Last week, Year 2 spent each morning on our DT project, a 3D model of Pudding Lane. We hope you enjoy the video!

On Friday, Year 2 had a go at making the type of cakes that may have been cooking in the oven that started the Great Fire of London. We really thought they were yummy! If you would like to have a go yourself, here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

·         1 lb (400g) self-raising flour

·         ½ lb (200g) caster sugar

·         1 lb (400g) currants

·         ½ lb (200g) melted butter

·         3 tablespoons milk

·         3 egg yolks

·         pinch ground nutmeg

·         icing sugar to sprinkle on top

 

 

Method:

1.     Sieve the flour and mix with the sugar and currants.

2.    Add the melted butter, milk, egg yolks and nutmeg, and beat together.

3.    When you have mixed it into a smooth dough, put it by a fire (or in a very low oven) to rise.

4.    Make the warm dough in to little cakes and prick them full of holes.

5.    Cook at 200°C for about 15 minutes.

6.    Allow cakes to cool then sprinkle with the icing sugar.

7.    Enjoy your cakes!

 

 

BE VERY CAREFUL TO TURN THE OVEN OFF WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED!!!

Visiting the Mayor of Southampton

Our school councillors paid a visit to the Mayor of Southampton, councillor Derek Burke yesterday. He is the 790th Mayor of Southampton and was also Mayor in 1999. We were given an excellent tour of his offices in the civic centre and he talked about how much he enjoyed his role as Mayor. He was very impressed with some of the difficult questions we asked him! We really enjoyed our visit which was very interesting and the Mayor and Town Sergeant were brilliant at showing us round.

Solent Football Tournament

Year 5 and 6 boys took part in Solent football tournament yesterday. They did really well in the group stages, coming 2nd and only conceding 1 goal, well done our goalie! They then faced a tough team in the play-off stage, which knocked them out of the competition. The team that knocked us out went on to win the cup. The boys all had a great day and worked well together as a team.