This week we see lots of students testing their culinary skills. The secondary students were cooking up a storm with spag. bowl, cakes, tacos, homemade burgers. Cooking should be fun, and experimental too! Learning to cook you learn life skills, such as eating healthy, budgeting your money, and cleaning. Cooking is less expensive than eating at restaurants, fast food restaurants and healthier!
And why leave cooking to the older kids, learning to cook at a young age and understanding healthy options is so important. Here this young man was learning about food groups and nutrition today, went shopping for ingredients and made a lush smoothie.
Learning to mix and stir and measure ingredients as good fun – can be messy at times too, good job we have our left over Christmas paper being put too good use as a table cloth!
And the best bit about food – eating it. Today was a bit chilly but a very clear and pretty day by the lake.
But not everything we make is for eating – here are some science experiments with this young man making an erupting volcano!
We continue the outside theme with some walks in a forest, some valuable map reading and compass skills, pebbles in the lake and a game of crazy golf!
And some arts and crafts where we learnt all about Jean-Michel Baquaist. Gaining inspiration from the famous artist’s techniques, this young man created his own master piece with spray paint – he went on to be a mentor and teach one of the younger students how to do it
Choosing vegetable seeds to grow and of course a little shopping trolley jousting with your friend!
What Does it Mean to Capture the Moment? When we talk of capturing the moment in photography, we are referencing the feeling, emotion, vibe or atmosphere or the photo. And that comes from more than just the subjects or the scenery, it comes from the photographer, too – what does this photograph feel to you when you see it maybe; the light dancing, movement, color, speed?
It’s impossible to go a day without using English and maths skills, and a good level of understanding means that you can have more control over things in the future like your own finances, communication, better understanding about the life around you from getting a job to every day life skills from reading recipes to sending a letter.
Here we make maths, English, reading, writing fun. It helps our young people engage in subjects that normally would be a challenge. Chalk board to practice writing. IT skills using a computer, typing skills, teaching our instructors all about Minecraft!
No matter what age you are Arts & Crafts are always fun and often therapeutic. Here we see a young lady doing pottery painting and and young man making the letter ‘D’ with pipe cleaner.
Bus & Train spotting is the interest and activity of watching, photographing and tracking them. But the fun comes in not just spotting them, actually riding on them – the freedom it gives you to travel around the country, meet new people, see new sights.
Established as a registered charity in 2001, the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary is based at Stonham Aspal in Suffolk, where it operates a comprehensive facility for the care & rehabilitation of owls from the region, and the promotion of owl conservation throughout the UK and beyond. The Sanctuary is open to the public all year round where it maintains the following services as the beneficiary of public donations. So this week we took a visit and found they also had Meerkats which was a real treat.
Last but not least this week a show of kindness.
We can teach our children about maths and English, cooking and other life skills – all very important, but learning and understanding the act of kindness is beautiful. This young man is donating hats and gloves in the local library. Studies have shown that generous people perform better. Helping others broadens your learning and helps to form deeper relationships. Well done young man for being so kind this week!
Our Ethos
No one can begin to affect the world around them until they are CONFIDENT , COMFORTABLE, happy in their own skin and have found their SPARK! We take the time to understand and develop programmes from where the learner is in the world not where we think they should be.