Tigers@taddy

 After so much perseverance and effort from the infants, their boats are finally finished! The children really have done Mrs Chapman and Miss Furness so proud. They started this project by sawing and splitting the wood themselves, then showed such resilience in whittling it into their desired boat shape (which is no easy task!). The children then sanded their boats and whittled their masts ready for the finishing touch. Topped with flags bearing crests of the children’s own designs, these boats are really a project to be proud of. 

  What an afternoon! We welcomed a group from Peak Dale primary school for an afternoon of cross country, tri-golf and football skills run by High Peak School & Sport Partnership. The atmosphere was amazing and the children showed fantastic sportsmanship.   Cross country                                                                                            Football     Tri-golf                                                            

 This afternoon, Tigers learnt about crests and looked at some examples. They then designed their own crest to go on the flag of their boat. 

 In Monday’s Maths lesson, Year 1 were learning about arrays. We used finger painting to demonstrate our understanding of rows and columns. 

 This afternoon, Leopards joined with Tigers to go in search of Elder flowers to make home made cordial.  We headed to the field behind school and were delighted to find 4 trees loaded with Elder flowers, ready to pick. The children carefully selected and collected the flowers ready to bring back to school.    Preparing the cordial The Leopards took charge, collecting all the equipment and and deciding which roles they were going to take after reading the recipe.  They washed the elderflowers. Grated the zest off the lemons.    Measured the sugar and added in to boiling water and stirred it until it dissolved.  All that was left was to squeeze the juice of  the lemons and add it along with the zest to the syrup (to preserve the cordial) and add  the Elder flowers to the syrup. We will now leave the Elder flowers to infuse over night. Tomorrow, it will be time to strain and boil the syrup to sterilise it then bottle it up.