Cookery Club has been very busy this half-term trying to use seasonal produce as much as possible.  We started by making a pumpkin soup which we served with a wonderful soda bread.  Fruit muffins, a choice of blueberry or raspberry and white chocolate, followed.  Blueberry got the most votes! They were particularly yummy!

The children enjoyed preparing and eating a delicious chicken stir-fry in an orange sauce.

Something a little spooky: a wonderful chocolate bat cake filled with cream and strawberries.  I didn’t even get offered a taste!

Our cheese pies were a huge hit both with the children and their parents! 

We got into the festive spirit by making chocolate logs, one of which doubled as a birthday cake! 

The children asked to make fajitas for our last cookery lesson of the term.

Table Tennis

 Every Friday at 3.30 pm The Gleddings Table Tennis Club makes its way to Crossley Heath School. At Crossley Heath they have coaching and then play games against each other. All children have made great progress and are preparing for their first match against another school!

Textiles

This is the first term the textile club has run.  They have made some wonderful things. Here is an example of their latest work.

Here are photographs of some of the exciting clubs taking place this term.

Cricket is once more proving popular with both younger and older members of the school.

There are some very keen girls taking part in football on a Monday evening. UIV girls in particular are making great progress in this sport.

Activity Service is proving again to be very interesting for the children.  In the photograph they are discovering the many methods of sleeping outdoors.

Miss Angela remains very busy with the tap and jazz groups.

Pottery is very popular once again this term. The children are hard at work making their newest creation.

Goodness me! A wolf’s gaping maw?  No, just cookery club’s macaroni cheese decorated with sliced tomato, to represent the tongue, and toast teeth!

Grating the cheese.

No lumps in our cheese sauce.

Adding the tongue and teeth!

Wolves were too tame for the boys; they added extra rows of gnashers and created Jaws!

A new academic year, a new cookery club and a wonderful new kitchen area for us to cook in.

We have had a bumper crop of apples and pears from the school trees this year, so we used them to make a delicious apple and pear crumble. Whilst the crumble was cooking, we made a proper custard sauce (yes, from scratch!) to go with it.

Picking the apples and pears.

Using our maths skills to calculate and accurately weigh out the ingredients.

Making the crumble.

Crumble assembly!

Crumble and custard. Yummy!

This half-term started sunny so we began by making two delicious salads: a potato, pea and feta salad and an apple, orange and celery salad.

Picking herbs from the garden area to use in the salad dressings.

Making a dressing.

Assembling the salads.

Delicious!

The salads were followed by puff pastry vegetable tarts.

Adding pesto to the cut out pastry prior to topping with vegetables and cheese.

Our finished tartlets- and a chocolate bun each as Chef Lizzie was so impressed with them!

The following week we tried our hands at fruit muffins. We used raspberries…and ended up with lovely purple coloured muffins! But they did taste great!

Mixing the muffins.

Plenty to share!

For the last cookery club of this academic year, it had to be something with chocolate! We were torn between chocolate cake, filled with cream and topped with chocolate, and profiteroles…with chocolate! So we divided into two and made both!

Making the choux pastry.

Shaping the profiteroles.

Adding the cream and chocolate.

The finished profiteroles.

Making the cake.

Looks great! Sadly I wasn’t given a bit but I’m told it tasted great, too!

Last Saturday, 3 football teams and 1 netball team took part in the St. Joseph’s Football and Netball Festival. We had a very exciting morning of sport.

Congratulations to the LIV football team who played some splendid football and went from strength to strength in each match.

The UIV football team played some wonderful football and managed to reach the semi-final stage of the tournament, but unfortunately were beaten 1-0.

The netball team played some superb netball, winning all four matches convincingly in their section. They too went through to the semi-finals but unfortunately were beaten 5-3.

The MIV football team played some fantastic football throughout the morning, winning all their matches and so gained a place in the final. After a nail biting extra time, The Gleddings School MIV football team won the tournament. Many congratulations to the following players - Billy Duffy, Marmaduke Hall, Dylan Wade, Edward Chippendale, Oliver Fleming, Charlie Nendick, James Cooper and Akib Sarwar.

One of the new clubs which started in the summer term was pottery. As you can see from the photographs, the children have made some fabulous ‘Green man box pots’. This club runs on a Friday evening from 3.30 until 5pm and is proving to be most popular.

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A rather short half-term…so the children worked at double pace to make a delicious rhubarb crumble with custard, and the following week a spring vegetable soup and wholemeal bread rolls. Please click on the links below to open up the recipes we used.

Preparing the rhubarb.

Making the crumble.

Ready for the oven.

Yummy!

rhubarb-crumble     proper-custard-sauce     spring-vegetable-soup     very-quick-wholemeal-bread-buns

The children in cookery club have been very busy this half-term.  We started by making and tossing pancakes.  Not a single one stuck to the ceiling or hit the floor but the occasional one did land on the awaiting plate!  Great fun was had by all!

We enjoyed making (and eating!) vegetarian tacos.

We tried to make lentil burgers.  The children found out how important it was to follow a recipe carefully and measure ingredients accurately!  Some turned out very well.

Something sweet next!  Pineapple upside cake.  This was one thing they didn’t offer to share!

We travelled to China next, and made a delicious vegetable stir-fry which the children ate together.

Finally the children made chocolate buns.  They used a piping bag to make a nest and finished them off with chocolate eggs and a fluffy chick.