Christchurch Junior School, Clarendon Road
Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 2AA
Tel: 01202 485579 office@cjsdorset.org
This years Arts Week pupils created their own Sketchbooks. They used these Sketchbooks to record their ideas, thoughts and inspirations. These pages led to a final piece.
In Year 3 the stimulus was the book: ‘Leon and the Place Between’. This theme was developed through choice of colours and patterns and the activities found at a circus! Our final pieces were mini circuses and hanging acrobats!
“This is the pork stir fry I cooked with my mum and dad. It was delicious!”
One of our Year 4 pupil’s has been putting his culinary skills to the test at home using one of the recipes he and his classmates learned during the cookery demonstration run by Christchurch Food Festival Trust.
That Pork Stir Fry certainly does look tasty. Well done!
Below is a recount of the Cookery workshops run by Christchurch Food Festival Trust written by two of our Year 4 pupils:
On Tuesday and Thursday Christchurch Food Festival came to teach Year 4 how to cook. We made trout tagine, pork and vegetable stir fry and a Spanish omelette with chorizo. At the beginning, they showed us how to make healthy oat cookies and lamb Palau. Our favourite meals that we made were the pork and vegetable stir fry and the Spanish omelette. The oat cookies were amazing and we are sure that everyone else will love them too. At the end, they spoke about the foods that are healthy and unhealthy. They said that at home you should eat lots of fruit and vegetables to keep you fit. Everyone that was there, enjoyed their time making and tasting the food. They are putting on stalls and cookery workshops at the food festival this year in May. If you make any of these delicious meals, be sure to try them because you might like them. We loved all of the tasty food. It was excellent!
Report by Olive and Poppy in 4AA.
Year 4 were busy in the kitchen last week cooking up a veritable feast of dishes thanks to Mary Reader and her team from Christchurch Food Festival Education Trust.
Chefs gave demonstrations to the children on how to prepare mouth-wateringly healthy meals of Turkey Pilau, Trout tagine, Stir fried pork and a Spanish Omelette with a Tomato and pomegranate salad.
The children were even treated to a sugar free cookie for dessert whilst learning about healthier options that they could choose.
Click here for a copy of the recipes our Year 4’s cooked and for more information on the Christchurch Food Festival trust please click here
As part of their DT learning, Year 4 children have created the most incredible 3D snowflakes. We all had a lot of fun doing this and learned a lot of new skills.
A huge thank you to those pupils who have become experts in their own classes and helped other classes with their constructions.
Year 4 had a wonderful time at their Christmas party playing traditional games such as pass the parcel. We were all so impressed with their beautifully decorated festive tables. Thank you very much for the Christmas party food and decorations that the children all so enjoyed sharing and setting up.
Year 4 visited St George’s Church to think about what Christmas meant to them. They travelled back in time to learn about the Christmas story told by a variety of storytellers. Each class created a beautiful Christmas card collage that was displayed in the Church. They also made a Christmas decoration of the baby Jesus that they brought home to decorate their own trees. They were also very lucky to each receive a beautifully illustrated book of the Nativity that they brought home to keep.
Year 4 have been writing their own version of Kit Wright’s poem ‘The Magic Box.’
Click below to see what they are keeping inside their boxes.
As part of our current Religious Education topic, Year 4 have been learning how colour and symbolism is used in Christian belief. We learnt about the story of Pentecost and created some art work based on the story. We thought carefully about the colours and the symbols that we used.
The children have worked incredibly hard on their Europe projects and we were very proud of them. Y4 parents were invited to visit the tour in the afternoon and were very impressed with their creativity, research and displays.
Below is a recount from one of our Y4 pupils with their thoughts on the project:
In our group we did Portugal. It was really fun! My favourite part was actually making it. I really enjoyed doing it. I actually did it in one evening!
My favourite part of making it was doing the big Portugal sign in the middle of the board which I cut out of a Portuguese travel magazine, in fact all the pictures were from a magazine! I also enjoyed doing all the research with the rest of my group.
Presenting it to the class was also really fun! But my least favourite part was taking it to the car and to school because it was so, so big. But overall I really enjoyed it!
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