Jamie Oliver Food Revolution!

On Friday's VIP Club the children too part in Jamie Oliver's record breaking attempt for the largest cooking lesson ever! Mr Cownie signed up the VI resource a couple of weeks ago to join in with over a million other children from all over the world to simultaneously prepare a healthy snack with Jamie live on You tube.

 

Everything prepared and ready....even the You Tube link!

 

 

 We even had Mrs Warland come and see what was happening.

 

Before the beginning of the broadcast, Mr Cownie went through all the ingredients as a bit of pre-teaching, so that the children could familiarise themselves with all the items they would encounter.

Then it was time for some Jamie Oliver. The children listened intently to the live broadcast, where Jamie explained the reason for the day and its purpose. He then went on to demonstrate the recipe, step by step to make a 'Rainbow Salad Wrap'.

Then it was our go!

 

We grated pear...

 

 

and carrot (MR C did the beetroot to save fingers and dying everyone's hands purple!)

 

Then we mixed yoghurt....

 

Mustard...

 

Olive oil...

And some mint and parsley, for the dressing.

 

Then we dressed the salad...

 

...with our hands.

 

Finally it was time to assembly our Rainbow Wrap.

 

The mixed vegetables and dressing were placed in the centre of a wholemeal wrap...

 



 

 

Time for some fiddly fingers...and....

 



 

....nearly there...

 



 

 

Hey presto....Rainbow Wraps all completed and wrapped in greaseproof paper ready for delivery home to a hopefully appreciative family!!

 



We had a great afternoon, from joining in with Jamie on the live stream from London, to making our own salad dressing and dressing the salad....with our hands! It was a fantastic sensory experience as well as a lot of fun.
 

In the merry, merry month of May!

We know that May day has been and gone but.......we managed to borrow a May Pole from St James' school and could not resist having a go. So in place of our regular Friday Sound posts session at lunchtime we had an introductory lesson in May Pole dancing.

 

 The children were accompanied by Mrs Burgess on the violin and Mrs Keene on the accordion as well as some snare drums played by one of our VI pupils.

We were blessed with the weather, where the forecast was for rain!!! Instead we had lovely sunshine to dance and skip around the May pole. At least 70 of our pupils, sighted and VI were able to have a go. We have borrowed the May pole for a couple of weeks, so with a little bit more fine weather there should be plenty of opportunities for more dancing!

 

 Thank You to St.James' C of E Primary (what a fantstic resource!)

Toynbee Sports In-Reach

Last Friday we were join by pupils from Toynbee VI Resource to run a VI Sports session.

This was a great opportunity for all involved. Instead of Mr Cownie setting up some activities he decided to ask the VI pupils from Toynbeee Secondary School to do it for him! And how they rose to the challenge! 

We had a target game with an ever increasing point system...

 

 More importantly the pupils from Toynbee were very chatty, talking to all the younger pupils.

 

 

Toynbee has a number of National Champions at 'Boccia', so their instruction and guidance was brilliant.  

 

All the children, whatever the age or visual impairment were welcomed and had a go.

 

 

For some children more action was demanded! So over the school's obstacle course they went!

 

And then there were the 'die-hard' footballers. Before we knew it a small unofficial game had started, with cones for goal posts.

 

For many of our pupils who are looking to possibly move on to Toynbee at the end of Year 6, this was a great chance to ask questions of current pupils and also to meet other children who might move on to Toynbee from other schools.

 

 

Over on the big playground Tennis was being practised. This young man from Year 1 really enjoyed bouncing the ball high...then we just needed to find the ball!

 

 

 

As for the obstacle course some children needed encouragement from staff, however some staff also needed encouragement from the pupils!!!

 

 

And for a gentle break, in the sports hall the children had some musical listening games, which they were very very good at!

 

Thank You

to all the pupils from Toynbee, it was a fantastic afternoon where all the participants thoroughly enjoyed themselves.