A Very Busy Week!

Wow! What a week we have had!

Yesterday, we held our very successful Fairtrade Snack Sale. We have been cooking all week to prepare for the sale- planning, costing and cooking lots of recipes using Fairtrade ingredients.

We sold smoothies and hot chocolate to accompany our banana loaf, flapjacks, fairy cakes, Florentines, chocolate covered marshmallows, fruit kebabs, pizza with pineapple and many other treats!

The aim of our sale was to raise awareness of the importance of Fairtrade, as well as raising money for Oxfam's Fairtrade projects.

 Source: Oxfam

We can now announce that we raised a fabulous £95.70 profit, in just half an hour- a real achievement! Well done!

 

Our visitors also voted for our Snack Attack products- we will be announcing which team has won the school heat next week.

This week we finished our TV adverts, produced our magazine/poster adverts and made radio advertisements with jingles and catch phrases. Finally, we wrote our reports about what we had learned- the most important requirement of the competition. Good luck everyone!

On Thursday, we had a fun day- Miss May organised a super Science Day, with a helicopter competition. DANIELLA in St. Clare's won for UKS2! Well done, Daniella!

On Friday, we also enjoyed a play on the theme of 'Mercy' by the Ten Ten Theatre Company. They performed different plays all day for each phase group in the school, because we are celebrating the 'Year of Mercy' this year.

On Wednesday, we loved watching 'Amazing Love'; the Middle School Easter Play. It was wonderful!

Next week, we will be performing our Easter Liturgy on Wednesday at church. Remember, you must bring in your costume on Monday. Also, Madame Severine needs you to bring in your letter to your French penpal on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend!

Bread of Life Cafe!

Yesterday, we had a fantastic trip to the Bread of Life Cafe. As we have been learning about Fairtrade this half term, we were keen to visit Mary again, as we know that she is a Fairtrade expert! Mary- and her husband John- told us all about running a Fairtrade shop and cafe.

We found out about where many of their products come from and why they choose to work for Fairtrade. Mary and John answered lots of our questions and we were able to see their shop and all of their products for sale.

Mary also reminded us that it had recently been Fairtrade Fortnight, with the theme of 'The Big Fairtrade Breakfast'. We designed our own breakfasts using Fairtrade ingredients.

We used lots of what we learned today when we ran our own Fairtrade Cafe to raise money for Oxfam's Fairtrade work. Thank you Mary and John! Make sure you go and visit the shop and cafe at the Bread of Life Centre in East Dulwich- they do great work to support farmers and producers around the world by selling food, gifts and cards.

A Wonderful Week!

Take a look at some of the marvellous writing from St. Clare's Class last week...

We had a wonderful week; it was  Book Week and we had an unexpected visit from some unusual creatures!

In the next couple of weeks, we will be creating our own texts about endangered animals and working towards opening our Fairtrade Cafe at the end of term. Remember- we are in FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT!

An exciting addition to our topic has been the 'Snack Attack' challenge. Each team is working to design, promote and create a Fairtrade snack to compete with the other teams at school, to decide who will be our school's entry for the national competition. A busy few weeks ahead!

 Kenan

 Emily

 Rory

 Elizabeth

 Jack G

Gracie

Maria

 Erhun

 Rory

 Finn

Mina

Cafe Marvellous, Part Two!

Well done to everyone in St. George's Class- today was another brilliant day at Cafe Marvellous! We had lots of special guests, including some of your parents and Mary from the Bread of Life Cafe. Thank you to everyone who has visited the cafe this week- we are very grateful!

Here are some photos from our cafe experience- showing the cooking, the decorations and the finished products on sale.

Very well done everybody! You've all worked so hard this half term; have a lovely rest next week!

Some of the beautiful cafe-themed artwork on show.

Hard at work, preparing the cafe before our guests arrive.

The tables were set with cutlery, napkins, table cloths, menus, flowers and candles.

 

The very popular marshmallow lollies- these were first to sell out!

 Spooky iced Halloween biscuits.

 Orange 'pumpkins' filled with fruit salad!

 Tasty fruit kebabs made up our pumpkin's spiky hair!

 Tasty French fruit tart.

 

 Beautifully baked and decorated fairy cakes.

Rolling the Japanese vegetable sushi rolls.

 Preparing the sushi.

Chopping the vegetables for the Russian Vegetable Soup.

 Italian pizzas, ready to go in the oven.

 Delicious French Fruit Tarts.

 Making the pasta salad.

 Pink iced fairy cakes, especially for 'Wear It Pink' day for Breast Cancer Awareness at school today.

Icing the spooky Halloween biscuits.

 Baking the fairy cakes.

Decorating our chef hats- we had to look the part!