14 - 19 Options

During the Summer term the group have been working towards their Countryside Challenge. This has been in both the indoor arena and the outside arena.

The challenge incorporates jumping over small jumps, stretching and balancing while on their horses, rein control whilst doing a figure of eight and trotting in the arena.

Many thanks as always, to the Celia Parry and her team of volunteers from Foresters Horn RDA.

Meadowside pupils shone brightly at this year ’s ZILLO Awards. ZILLO is a website created by Wirral Council Children’s Services, in partnership with students and staff at WirralMet College. ZILLO is a place where young people can get the lowdown on the latest events, arts, culture, news and expert health and wellbeing advice.

They launched the Youth Awards, earlier this year and four pupils from Meadowside had their nominations accepted and put forward for consideration at the awards evening. The event, organised by the ZILLO Young Reporters, aimed to recognise the outstanding accomplishments young people in Wirral are making in their lives, inspire others, and create a culture of excellence among young people here in Wirral.

Our winners included:

Toby– the Environmental Champion Award

Tyler– the CommunityEngagement Award

Luke L-the Animal Care Award

Mrs Hughes

Life Skills

KS3 Cleaning activities, safety games, making snacks and using money to add values and to buy items to play with in shop and online games have been part of KS3 topic.

KS4 Pupils have been learning and participating in some of the cleaning tasks linked to household cleaning that has included; washing and drying,dishes, setting the table, cleaning floors, sorting and washing laundry and making drinks and snacks then cleaning up afterwards.

Sandwiches, cakes, pizzas, sausage rolls, pasties and making picnic foods are some of the things we have made and enjoyed eating in lessons. 4V also made cakes to sell in the 3 day Maroon café fundraiser for their RE accreditation.

Post 16 Using electric mixers, kettles, blenders, food mixers, induction hobs, microwaves and gas and electric cookers are some of the kitchen equipment Post 16 have used to make food. Pupils have made egg dishes, pasta dishes, curries, cakes and biscuits including running the Maroon café by making, selling and serving food and drinks items and using money skills of the 3 day fundraiser for their RE accreditation. Liz Jones

14-19 Options

Festivals & Celebrations

In this Option pupils learnt about some of the Festivals and Celebrations that have occurred during this term.

St Georges Day, Africa Day, Family Day (for Father’s Day) and Eid are some of the celebrations we looked at. Pupils learnt about what it was about, the countries and the people involved and how it was celebrated. Pupils tasted or made foods that included Giant Cookie Cake, the exploding African Lime Cake (although this wasn’t meant to happen but the cake tasted great), Coconut Barfi to celebrate Eid and making scones for an afternoon tea for St George’s day.

Cookery Snacks

Grating, mixing, rolling and cutting to make scones, raspberry buns, chocolate cakes, biscuits, twisty cheese straws and pasties happened in cookery options. This option is lots of fun with many pupils enjoying getting messy, singing along to songs when making food and then tasting some of the food they made as a snack

Liz Jones