Home Economics
This week some of the pupils have explored the potatoes we grew at school and have experienced making potato salad or paprika wedges with them.
They used all of their senses to and some pupils were able to use skills such as cutting and stirring.
Today is St David’s Day, the Patron Saint of Wales and to help you celebrate we have a range of Welsh inspired recipes for you to try at home.
Here are some activities to help you learn about St David.
CBeebies – Preparing For St David’s Day
CBeebies – Celebrating St David’s Day
CBeebies – Story Of St David
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/lets-celebrate-stdavidsperformance
Welsh Rarebit Muffins
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/welsh-rarebit-muffins
Chilli Cheese Toast Rarebit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chilli_cheese_toast_71091
Cheese And Tomato Toasties
We would love to see how you get on with you Home Economics activities so please feel free to share any photos or videos via your child’s teacher, through Google Classroom, or email Amy Dunnett (Principal Teacher Primary) adunnett@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
These week we have a range of different activities for you to try at home, all based around pasta!
How is pasta made?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07x16n2/maddies-do-you-know-series-1-11-popcorn-and-pasta
Pasta Rap Song
How To Cook Pasta In A Microwave
Birds Nest Spaghetti
BBC Good Food Spaghetti Carbonara
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/learn-make-spaghetti-carbonara
BBC Microwave Spaghetti Bolognaise
Symbol Supported Recipe – Pasta In A Tomato Sauce
This week we have a variety of pancake recipes for you to try at home to help you celebrate Pancake Day.
NLC Symbol Supported Pancake Recipe
CBeebies Perfect Pancake Recipe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/pancake-recipe
CBBC Sweet Pancake Recipe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/thingstodo/bp-sweet-pancake-make
You might also enjoy this pancake day song from CBeebies…
…or why not take part in the Blue Peter pancake flip challange!
We would love to see how you get on with you Home Economics activities so please feel free to share any photos or videos via your child’s teacher, through Google Classroom, or email Amy Dunnett (Principal Teacher Primary) adunnett@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
There’s been lots of work going on in Secondary over the last couple of weeks. It’s good to see pupils continuing to to work towards ASDAN awards and SQA qualifications while learning remotely. There have also been some very successful Google Meets and I know the staff involved in these have very much enjoyed seeing you all!
We have one young lady who working on SQA: Looking After Animals. She is taking good care of her new kitten.
We have pupils working on SQA Leisure Time Activities. This supports us in trying out new activities alongside engaging in things we already know and enjoy.
We’ve also been keeping fit, both indoors and out. There is a great range of activities in the PE Google Classroom. Please do pop in for a look if you’ve not already done so. Throwing and catching has been practised this week.
Life Skills and Independence
We continue to work on our life skills and independence. We’ve been baking: scones, a rainbow cake and savoury pancakes are a few of the recipes we’ve tried. Cooking and baking are great ways to practice our numeracy skills.
Assembly ‘Homework’
Our Secondary Assembly theme was ‘Love’ and we’ve now been tasked with showing love for someone over the next two weeks. This can take many forms: doing something to help someone else, being kind to someone, doing something that someone else enjoys, or for our staff and parents, showing yourself some kindness and taking a bit of time for you!
Following our previous Assembly where we had a theme of ‘Express Yourself’ in line with Children’s Mental Health Week, we enjoyed seeing photos of how others have done this.
Reading and Relaxing at Home
Being Creative through Art and Music
Enjoying Time Outdoors
This week we have a couple of different recipes for waffles for you to try making at home. What will you put on yours – bacon, maple syrup, jam or maybe something else? Have a go and why don’t you let us know what your favourite toppings are.
Belgian Waffles
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/belgian_waffles_34066
Cheat’s Waffle Recipe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/griddle_pan_waffles_62298
We would love to see how you get on with you Home Economics activities so please feel free to share any photos or videos via your child’s teacher, through Google Classroom, or email Amy Dunnett (Principal Teacher Primary) adunnett@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
This week we are making Vegetable Chow Mein to celebrate Chinese New Year and we have a few different recipes for you to try. You don’t have to stick to the vegetables in the recipes, you can be creative and try something new or use vegetable that your family like or whatever you have in the fridge!
You also might enjoy watching this short video on the Story Of The Sugelan Dragon before you start.
Vegetable Chow Mein
Easy Chow Mein For Kids
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/easy_chow_mein_for_kids_81406
CBBC Chow Mein
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/bp-jeremy-pang-chow-mein
Kids Meals Go Global Vegetable Chow Mein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACdMiR47LWc
We would love to see how you get on with you Home Economics activities so please feel free to share any photos or videos via your child’s teacher, through Google Classroom, or email Amy Dunnett (Principal Teacher Primary) adunnett@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
Burns Celebrations to start the week
We’ve had another busy week of remote learning. Starting on Monday with our whole school Burns Day Celebration, the week was started with great enthusiasm!
Daily Circle Time
To keep our routine going, many classes continue to do daily circle time. Some of our learners have their own circle time packs at home to support the familiar routine, others use the class slides to provide structure. It’s great to receive feedback on how our learners are getting on: ‘He thoroughly enjoys circle time.’
For one young man, circle time is also an opportunity to practise his bench sitting.
Personal Independence and Life Skills
We continue to develop independence in personal care. Staff take time to support us in doing things for ourselves. Handwashing is very important during a pandemic!
We’ve been cooking and baking. There was some delicious French Onion Soup on offer this week and beautiful golden shortbread. Look out Masterchef, here we come!
Expressive Arts
We enjoyed art, PE, drumming and music through Makaton Choir. A very detailed drawing was done to decorate a drum for a music session with Keith – the drawing is of a hunter being chased by an African lady that is protecting the animals!
We also took time to relax, both indoors and out.
Working Hard
We worked hard on a range of learning activities and tasks, some online and some more practical.
One of our senior pupils made an amazing cat house as part of her SQA work. I think you’ll agree, this is for one very lucky cat!
Assembly
Finally, to round off the week we had an Assembly. We talked about mental health and the theme ‘Express Yourself’. Staff shared the ways that they express themselves and show that they’re unique. The slides are available to view in the Google Assembly classroom for anyone that was unable to join us. Our challenge for the next assembly on 12th February is to share a photo of us doing something that we enjoy – anything goes!
This week we have some recipes to help you make cheese straws at home. Have a go and see which one you like the best.
Cheese Pooh Sticks
Cheese Straws
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/cheese_straws_79467
Quick Cheese Straws
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/quick-cheese-straws
Junior Bake Off Cheese Straws
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/thingstodo/jbo-recipe-cheese-straws
We would love to see how you get on with you Home Economics activities so please feel free to share any photos or videos via your child’s teacher, through Google Classroom, or email Amy Dunnett (Principal Teacher Primary) adunnett@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
Why don’t you have a go at making some shortbread to enjoy as part of your Burns Day celebrations. Here are a few different recipes for you to choose from.
We would love to see how you get on with you Burns Day activities so please feel free to share any photos or videos via your child’s teacher, through Google Classroom, or email Amy Dunnett (Principal Teacher Primary) adunnett@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
