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Cookery club

By popular request, it was our once-termly, burger-making on Wednesday, with Chocolate Oreo milkshakes to accompany.

Annabel Newcomb

Cookery Club

Much to everyone’s delight, it was Spare Ribs in Barbeque Sauce with Egg Fried Rice and Sweetcorn.

Annabel Newcomb

Japanese Club 日本のクラブ

Seven new recruits have joined Japanese Club this term and are learning how to greet each other in a new language! We have started learning the Hiragana Alphabet, writing it and playing a game on the big blackboard. We have also been singing our “Genki Japan Warm up” song! This week Year 7 pupil Curtis Y is teaching the rest of the group how to ask questions. He’ll be their ‘Sensei’ for part of the session!

Good luck budding Japanese speakers.

Ganbatte ne!

Louise Payne

Cooking

Cookery Club

On Saturday the children made Shepherd’s Pie, which they said was delicious. On Wednesday we made a Chicken Fajita filling for soft tortilla boats. These also proved to be very popular. There was just enough time to make fruity smoothies too.

Annabel Newcomb

Cookery Club

On Wednesday I had a full house due to match cancellations so I was very thankful for Miss Buckley’s amazing help.

The children made some deliciously gooey chocolate chunk cookies this week.

Annabel Newcomb

Cookery Club

For my first Saturday cookery club of the term my cooks made very bright and sparkly fairy cakes. On Wednesday it was lovely to have some new faces at the club. They made some extremely delicious Sichuan pork and vegetables with noodles. Once again we were shown how to use chopsticks correctly by our Asian students!

Annabel Newcomb

Cookery Club

For the last boarders’ cookery club of the term, they made “eggscellent” millionaire’s shortbread! They saved half for break on Thursday and wished they’d agreed with me that it was best to put it into the fridge to set overnight. What would I know?!

Annabel Newcomb

Cookery Club

We made Nachos with tortilla chips, seasoned mince, lashings of grated cheese and a garnish of chopped tomato, spring onion and jalapenos.

There was enough time to make chocolate chip milkshakes too.

Annabel Newcomb

Cookery Club

Well, it just had to be pancake making this week! There was some very professional flipping going on. For the main course they made a chicken or ham in cheesy sauce filling and for pudding there was a choice of lemon, orange and sugar or chocolate sauce.

Annabel Newcomb

Cookery Club

Homemade burgers and chips were back by popular demand and wolfed down for supper!

Annabel Newcomb

Marble Run:

Theo E and Miles F created a fantastic marble run in Junior Activities Club this week – Theo said he thought a triangular base would be strong and work well. It really proved to be true!

Carina Everist

Cookery Club

To get us in the mood for Chinese New Year we made some very tasty and authentic looking Stir Fried Beef Noodles.

The children made muffins this week. Some took the healthy option and others went for triple chocolate!

There are some pictures of Melisa A having chopsticks lessons!

Annabel Newcomb

There was hardly a spare seat in the room in Classics Club – and that was not just because of preps due in the following day. The children who are there want to be there and are, like the men at the beginning of Gladiator, “lean and hungry” in their Classical pursuits. Anyone who likes to relax after Monday’s jolt to the system with spot of Ancient Greek certainly has something about them..!

Saturdays are very relaxed, with everyone following their own line of enquiry, or just needing a guiding hand through some prep. It is also a forum for less experienced, but still voracious, Latinists to catch up with their peers.

Our recent open-door workshop was fun and, I hope, helpful in terms of understanding the subject and why it has been the mainstay of the curriculum for so long.

Lente, lente ad infinitum..!

Ed Gilsenan

Cookery Club: On Saturday and Wednesday the cooks made Toad in the Hole, with the addition of some smoked pancetta and, in a couple of cases, some jalepeno chilies! Whilst the “Toad” was cooking on Wednesday they made some lovely, exotic fruit smoothies and on Saturday it was Oreo milkshakes.

Annabel Newcomb

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