Using ICT skills the students prepared posters about healthy eating, take a look at their wonderful work:


I am sure you will agree that all the posters are colourful and interesting.
The posters will be laminated so the students can use them as placemats.
Next week we will be looking at vegetables and making pizza and pasta with tomato sauce and lots of healthy vegetables.

Using dried fruit and apples to create great tasting Fruity flapjacks was our aim of the night and all 13 studnets who attended did just that. By using the recipe below they produced unusual and different fruity flapjacks by using: dried tropical fruits including papaya, mango, pineapple also used dates, dried figs, dried apricots, sultanas, cranberries, cherries and cooking apples.


Pieces of the flapjack made with different fruits made and enjoyed by theYear 7 students

FRUITY FLAPJACKS

Ingredients
100g/3¼oz unsalted butter or margarine
100g/3¼oz demerara sugar mixture

100g/3¼oz honey or golden syrup (or both together)

200g/7¼oz porridge oats
25g/1oz dried fruits, coconut, nuts or seeds (or a mixture)

this makes an 8" cake or flan size as picture above, double the mixture for swiss roll size

Method
1. Put the butter, sugar and honey or golden syrup in a saucepan and heat, stirring occasionally, until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved.
2. Add the oats and nuts, fruit, ginger or coconut, if using, and mix well so all the oats and fruit are covered. (If mixture too dry then add more syrup or honey, if its too wet then add more porridge oats.)
3. Transfer the oat mixture to the prepared swiss roll tin (if making double quantity) or 8"flan or cake dish if using quantity above, you can use foil containers if you prefer and spread to about 2cm (¾in) thick. Smooth the surface with the back of a spoon.
4. Bake in a preheated oven at 180C/350F/Gas 4 for 10-15 minutes, until lightly golden around the edges, but still slightly soft in the middle.
5. Let cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then score with your desired size of pieces, when cool turn out and enjoy.

All the students enjoyed weighing out the ingredients, melting the mixture and then adding the fruit to the oats and mixing them all together. Placing the mixture in the foil containers and smoothing was a difficult job but as you can see from the picture the results were great. Each student washed up their own equipment, we then discussed usind fresh and dried fruits within the mixture and they all left with their flapjacks and a smile. Reports the next day that family and friends had enjoyed their flapjacks.

Cook It Club began onThursday the 2nd November and was a great success for the 8 students who attended. All students took part in guessing the fruits that were provided and then considered how the fruit looked, smelt and of course how it tastes. Here are some of the unusual fruits that they tasted.

Pomelo, one of the fruits tasted by the 8 Year 7 students in our first Cook It Club night.


Physalis is another fruit which was enjoyed by most of the group, it is also known as a Chinese Gooseberry.



Sharon Fruit which I really enjoyed has a sweet taste with the texture of an apple but tasted like a pear, however others did not like the taste of this fruit.


All the fruits were tried but not all were enjoyed and some students had their favourite fruits. The other fruits tried were :- Pineapple, Kiwi, Papaya, Figs, Mango and Pomegranate.
The students all enjoyed their first session and are looking forward to next week when we make fruity flapjacks.