Hello children,

I hope you are all keeping well and enjoying your home learning. I would like to share a new art challenge with you all. This week, I would like us to focus on Shadow Art. Using a torch or a living room light, lamp or even a torch from a mobile phone. Find a dark place in your home, choose your favourite object. Place it on some plain A4 paper and have a go at creating your very own pieces of art by tracing around the shadow.

Please see the pictures below for some ideas.

Have fun and enjoy 🙂 Mrs Jukes

Shadow Art Task

Shadow Art Task

Bake With Miss J – Week 2! This week I have been making Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins… they went down a treat with Mr Parker and Mrs Jukes! A short video has been made to show each stage…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOliKAmatNE&feature=youtu.be

PLEASE ENSURE YOU HAVE AN ADULT SUPPORT/HELP WITH USING THE OVEN, MICROWAVE OR WHEN HANDLING HOT TRAYS.

100g softened butter (I use stork or the supermarket equivalent)

2 medium eggs

225g self-raising flour

3 tablespoons milk

100g chocolate chips

175g unrefined golden caster sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

2 bananas (mashed)

 Set your oven to 180 degrees, 160 degree (Fan) or gas mark 4.

1. Place 12 muffin or big cupcake cases into a tray and set aside.
2. Mix together the butter and sugar until smooth.
3. Add in 2 eggs and mix briefly.
4. Add in the self-raising flour, baking powder and mashed bananas. Mix together until smooth.
5. Add in the milk and chocolate chips and mix for a final time.
6. Add the mixture into each cupcake case. For this stage I use an ice-cream scoop and fill it twice. You could put two heaped spoons into each case.
7. Place the tray into the oven and bake for 25 minutes.
8. After 25 minutes, place a skewer or small knife into the middle of a muffin. If the skewer or knife is clean (no runny mixture), your muffins are ready. If not, bake for 2 more minutes at a time until they are full cooked.
9. Cool down in the tray for at least 15-20 minutes. Then transfer onto a cooling rack.

If you decide to make these muffins, please do send an e-mail to Eloise.jones@taw.org.uk – I would love to see how they turn out!

Stay tuned for another recipe next Friday!

Miss J x

Dear Parents,

I would like to inform you of a free offer currently available from The Usborne Foundation, a charity, for their brilliant app, Teach your Monster to Read. This is a phonics-focussed app, which we use in school, to support children who need extra help with reading and blending letter sounds.

It is permanently free on their website, but the app is also currently free too (normally £4.99). There are absolutely no in-app purchases or adverts, so get yourself onto the app store and download it by Sunday 17th January for free! It will continue to be free on the device you download it onto, even after this date.

Please click on the link below for further information. Sign up on the website first, to get a logon for your child, then either continue on your computer, or download the app to a different device and use the same logon you just created.

Sign Up and Play – Teach Your Monster to Read

Kind regards,

Mr Butler