D & T day

Thursday 11th February 2010

Design and make a healthy soup.

Children in Reception and Year 1 spent a day designing, making, tasting and evaluating a healthy soup.  The children started the design by collecting information about soup preferences.  They asked staff and other members of the class what their favourite soup was.  We then created a bar graph to display the results and decided that vegetable soup was the most popular and was the soup we should make.  The children then picked vegetables from the school’s vegetable garden, washed, peeled and chopped everything ready for the soup.  The chopped vegetables were then put into a large saucepan with some stock.  Luckily Cook let us use her kitchen to cook the soup.

Some children used the computer suite to create pictures of their favourite bowls of soup whilst others wrote a bossy recipe for the soup they had made.  Everyone had fun.

Here is a selection of photos from the day.

In the afternoon we tasted our soup with some fresh bread made in the class bakery that morning.  Most children decided that the soup was delicious and some had 4 cup fulls!!