Mini Chef- Healthy Eating Monitors

This week the healthy eating monitors in Year 2 took part in Mini Chef. They met on Tuesday to decide what they wanted to make and decided to make Sweet Potato Curry.

Here are some photos of the Healthy Monitors making the curry. 

Mini-Chef with the Manor Way Healthy Eating Monitors

As part of our campaign to support our community to stay healthy and eat well, the Healthy Eating Monitors Team from Manor Way took over the Community Kitchen last week, where we created a delicious veggie pasta bake. Containing courgettes, aubergines, tomatoes, onions and peppers our veggie bake was packed full of nutritious delicious goodness, with garlic and fresh basil to help season our pasta dish.

Everyone got involved in the planning and preparation process and we were so proud to sell our meals to our community.

The Healthy Eating Team from High Street will be creating something special soon so watch this space!

Year 2 investigate... GERMS!

 This week, Year 2 have begun to investigate germs as part of our healthy living science topic. We want to understand how germs and bacteria are spread and whether washing your hands with soap and water really works to reduce the spread!

Method.

1. We placed our unwashed hands over one piece of bread and the sealed it in a zip lock bag.

2. We then thoroughly washed our hands with soap and water before touching the next piece bread and again placing it in a sealed zip lock bag.

3. Our third piece of bread is our 'control' bread. This piece was handled with a glove on and did not touch our hands at all, again placing it in a sealed zip lock bag.

We will monitor the bread for changes and see if we can answer our questions next week!

Walk to School Week 2020: Monday 5th October

 At Bannockburn our Junior Travel Ambassadors Team proudly encourage everyone to use an active travel means to get to and from school, for the various physical and mental health benefits, plus the environmental and road safety advantages that having less cars around our school vicinity brings. 

That is why we recognise Walk To School Week 2020, which begins on Monday 5th October 2020. As part of the week, children will have a class assembly and spend time discussing why walking, scooting or cycling to and from school is a great thing to do - if you can park and ride (which means parking or getting off the bus at least a 10-minute walk from school premises) then you will also be showing a commitment to active travel, so well done!

There is also a poster competition you can enter before Walk to School Week starts on Monday 5th October, the link is here:

https://tps.org.uk/poster-competition

BNF Healthy Eating Week @ Home - get involved!

Good morning – it’s BNF Healthy Eating Week @ Home! Th British Nutrition Foundation are encouraging everyone to get involved! Why not take part in the daily challenges (below) or get cooking with their cook-a-longs that will run at 10am and 2pm Monday-Friday? To view the recipes, and to follow the cook-a-longs on YouTube, click here. https://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/hewathome/getcookingwithbnf.html?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=aa2507cab195ddd2b4ea35669b0a8a7b99687c2b-1592816212-0-AbJ6ywZ5Mir4iH0dFGiObXdZ7hPv-0iEwSZ7hd_m3YBMb_95ozNGAosSIyZhC-WebO-L1mSuJyrCOh1r6r995j9ppVs1wIiFOVK3BavDVaSOnPgHbTQU5IsVyfQXwRrpMdoEx9aqZ5ZE9e8klLNuQbHRfw6-ryKyd-g_HL0sW8KK8K3DYzP18gliz6Y_5FfL2sPavSCek4DFzu0kGDvtgjeZ-7XZ0_UPkdwl7xvgJt8McWN0MRzmhTrOOiYG460PiWI7pnhcXZ8Qu9crM8NZiqlb5PfvlyvMDEyDMbezWJMtJrPG924hboIhw_MMSmMONtoZAj4eAewHEFljgwecgn9OCNs7zo6VljBfMuk05kUF4Y69RFTA1Vgq6w6k3vY2lvPKUk1I4gkO_DP6Guy68B4 The aim of the Week is to encourage people of all ages to take part in a range of key health challenges at home (or in nurseries, schools, universities or workplaces, where social distancing measures allow). There are seven health challenges (based on those identified for the main Week) which will be supported by a range of evidence-based, easy to access resources. The challenges are: 1.    Eat well 2.    Eat more wholegrains 3.    Have 5 A DAY 4.    Drink plenty 5.    Get active 6.    Be mind kind - help a friend or neighbour 7.    Make a change For further details, including the challenges and resources, check out the Food A fact of Like website.

May is National Walking Month!

May is National Walking Month and usually we would celebrate it by having Walk to School Week in mid May. This year, whilst things are different and children should only be out walking as part of their daily exercise, Living Streets has created a space where you can find FREE resources and activities!

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Living Streets will be releasing new resources and fun activities on the page on a weekly basis, so keep going back for more. 

Remember – during lockdown, it is important that we all follow the latest Government rules to keep ourselves and others safe. 

It is also important that we stay connected in every way we can and share any positive experiences. Ask your parents to share your daily walks, thoughts, pics and videos on social media using #WalkingFromHome, as a reminder for families to stick together! Or you could send it in to the school newspaper or working together email addresses.

No matter the times, the walk to school movement is still strong; whether we are walking to or from an actual school whilst our family members do their keywork, or just around the neighbourhood as part of your local daily exercise - walking is a fun, active and healthy activity to do!

Keep fit and learn some new French words at the same time!

Bonjour à tous!

I hope you are all finding lots of exciting ways to keep your bodies and minds active!

I have found some great French videos for you all to use, where you can learn some French, keep fit and have fun all at the same time!

Why not spend an hour following these French fitness videos which are perfect for children.... and adults too!

Warm up

Tabata workout (5mins) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO3uSUjXqcM

Main tasks

1. Full workout (25mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt0wuk_bOXI

2. And who could forget.... my favourite - Disco en Français! (5minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt0wuk_bOXI

Cool down

Yoga (15mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etw7nUjqDiQ

Ratatouille - a delicious healthy French meal which you can easily adapt to suit your family!

Method

1. Cut 2 large aubergines in half lengthways. Place them on the board, cut side down, slice in half lengthways again and then across into 1.5cm chunks. Cut the ends off 4 small courgettes, then across into 1.5cm slices.
2. Peel 2 red or yellow peppers from stalk to bottom. Hold upright, cut around the stalk, then cut into 3 pieces. Cut away any membrane, then chop into bite-size chunks.
3. Score a small cross on the base of each of 4 large ripe tomatoes, then put them into a heatproof bowl. Pour boiling water over, leave for 20 secs, then remove. Pour the water away, replace the tomatoes and cover with cold water. Leave to cool, then peel the skin away. 
4. Quarter the tomatoes, scrape away the seeds with a spoon, then roughly chop the flesh.
5. Set a sauté pan over medium heat and when hot, pour in 2 tbsp olive oil. Brown the aubergines for 5 mins on each side until the pieces are soft. Set them aside. 
6. Fry the courgettes in another tbsp oil for 5 mins, until golden on both sides. Repeat with the peppers. Don’t overcook the vegetables at this stage.
7. Tear up the leaves from the bunch of basil and set aside. Cook 1 thinly sliced medium onion in the pan for 5 minutes. Add 3 crushed garlic cloves and fry for a further minute. Stir in 1 tbsp red wine vinegar and 1 tsp sugar, then tip in the tomatoes and half the basil. 
8. Return the vegetables to the pan with some salt and pepper and cook for 5 mins. Serve with basil.
9. Why not add extra ingredients or spices to make it your own bespoke recipe? 

BON APPETIT!

Let's help Charlton Athletic Women break an attendance record!

Charlton Athletic Women take on London Bees at The Valley on Sunday, March 22nd 2020 and Bannockburn children and families are invited to join them for FREE! 

Here is the link http://cawfc.com/​ for students to claim their free ticket to this game.

You might event get too see Jenna playing, who visited our school last term and had training session with our girls football team.

Multicultural Menu Ideas from the International Ambassadors Team

On Wednesday 12th February, Mrs Seaton and the International Ambassadors Team, one of our 16 Community Partnership leader Groups, met with Jo-Anne and Rose from Independent Catering, who supply our school with our yummy school dinners!

The aim was to discuss some more multicultural themed days for Summer Term and next year; we talked about ideas that we have for days which celebrate different cultures, using our own knowledge and experiences, and how it could link to our learning or global affairs, such as a Japanese food day to honour the 2020 Olympics.

We are looking forward to our next meeting when we can hopefully plan a couple of different menus for the Independent team to investigate further; Jo-Anne explained how the food is always freshly prepared, healthy and sourced as locally as possible, to keep the carbon footprint as low as possible, so these are all important factors we will have to consider.

Bannockburn Boot Camp: Friday 11th January 2019

Looking to kick-start your new year's resolutions?
Need a bit of inspiration to get you started?
Or just looking for a fun way to get active?

Why not come along to our Family Bannockburn Boot Camp sessions on Fridays after school at our Manor Way site from 3.30-3.40? Our amazing sports apprentices are running energetic, fun, short sessions to help you and your family get moving.

Each child that attends will receive a raffle ticket to be used in a prize-draw at the end of this half term: the prize up for grabs is an amazing family pass to Gravity trampoline park.

We had our first session last week- we hope to see lots of you on Friday for our weekly Bannockburn Boot Camp session!

Bannockburn Boot Camp:
When: Friday @ 3.30-3.40
Where: Hall @ MW site