Outdoor play/p.e

Outdoor play/p.e ideas

Suggestions from the kids have included a wooden cricket set, badminton set and a tennis set. Ideas I've found to add to this via eBay are: a wooden skittles set, a quoits set, large garden darts, large twister/snakes and ladders. The idea is to get outdoors as much as possible playing sports while the weather is nice.

Design and technology sticky toffee pudding

Design and technology, food technology.

Sticky toffee pudding recipe:

 

Nine ounces Dates

One pint water.

Three ounces butter. 

Nine ounces sugar.

Nine ounces self raising flour.

Two teaspoons bicarbonate soda.

Three eggs

Method: 

Put dates and water on to simmer for fifteen minutes.

Cream sugar and butter until pale.

Add eggs and flour slowly until fully incorporated.

Liquidise dates with bicarbonate soda, add slowly.

Bake one to one and a half lhours at one hundred and sixty degrees.

Butterscotch sauce recipe:

One pint cream

One pound brown sugar

Three quarters of a pound unsalted butter

Method:

Mix together stir until sugar and butter dissolves.

What happened?

Drew successfully made a gorgeous cake and sauce.

Design and technology lessons at home

Yesterday we did some DIY jobs around the house I taught my eldest daughters how to repoint brickwork as some damaged pointing was causing damp on the kitchen wall seems a good idea to count this as a lesson in design and technology for my home schooled daughter. 

I showed them how to do pointing then let them practice on the back hard wall as it had quite a few places that needed repointing my daughters really enjoyed themselves learning a new skill and spent two hours repointing bits on the garden wall with me then we did the brickwork that had needed doing. 

Today my home schooled son is doing a design and technology. Food lesson with his daddy who is a chef. This will involve cooking a proper dinner and pudding of his choice from start to finish, he's chosen gammon with honey and mustard glaze, roast potatoes and green beans with home made sticky toffee pudding with sauce for six of us! Much more practical for real everyday life than cooking a basic recipe like cake for one person at school.

New timetable

So finally decided on a new timetable with more flexibility for outdoor learning across the summer our new summer timetable runs April to end may with summer holidays starting the start of June as our new baby is due around then :) then back to school still on our summer timetable until the start of October so timetables don't change mid week. Across the summer structured topics they study are optional to allow making the most of outdoors play and learning across the good (I hope) weather this is thirteen weeks around the long summer break and new baby then in October the winter timetable starts with eleven weeks before Christmas hols then January to the end of march on the winter timetable before back to summer timetable in April. The winter timetable will be more structured hopefully combatting boredom being indoors with the bad weather. At the moment we study in two and a half hours of structured work a day five days a week in the summer this is flexible in the winter it will be two and a half hours five days a week with an extra two or three, two and a half hour sessions alternating weeks offset from the summer timetable if they have done structured work across the summer timetable they won't do all of these so basically across a year we have three weeks more holiday than my daughter at school but only Christmas and summer no half terms, more outside time and less structure across the good weather ( fresh air, sunshine, play and fun) then structure in the winter with set topics and we still cover across a year the same home school hours on structured topics as we do now but there's something to suit all of us.