Wednesday, 28 September 2011

One Planet picnic

Today we went to Muddisdale to have our Eco schools One planet picnic brunch. We are trying to raise awareness of minimising waste and protecting the environment by using local produce where possible. We used some Fairtrade goods as well in our menu. We made sure we didn't use anything that had to be thrown away afterwards and took re usable plates, cups and bags to transport our food. 
Mixing the ingredients for banana oat scones.

The scones look good enough to eat!
Mixing the batter for the pancakes.

Adding the egg.

Cooking away nicely!

Time to turn this one!
We took our food to Muddisdale for brunch and spread some rugs and tarpaulins to sit on as the grass was still wet!
We had strawberry milk made with Orkney milk and Scottish strawberries, Fairtrade orange juice or Scottish water to drink.
The pancakes were made with Orkney eggs and milk. We had butter and homemade gooseberry jam on them. The bananas were Fairtrade and the oats came from Scotland. We played some games while we were there too.
Enjoying our food

Is there any more?

A plate and cup tower competition sprang up!

I think ours is higher!
 
Careful!


Whoops!


In this game we had a red team and a yellow
team. We needed to work together to try to
knock the other team's balls off the tarpaulin
and keep our ones on!
 
The red team won!

This is a version of duck, duck goose. We used
the names of continents and had to spell them
out before we ran.
In a huddle counting to 50 so that the hiders
can find a hiding place in the game sardines.


Hunting!


Is there anyone in there?

Can we get in there too?

The champion hiders took ages to be found!
Thankfully after all that hiding everyone was found safe and sound and we all returned to school!
Here is the recipe we used for our banana oat scones. 


We made posters of our menus. You can see some of them on display outside our classroom.
 

 

We wrote some reports of our picnic when we got back to school. You can read some of them by clicking on the Wiki link at the right of the page.
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous29 September 2011 at 13:33

    Thank goodness you found everybody!

    What a great time you have had on your one planet picnic - and lots of things to remember when thinking about the environment.

    Mrs Miller

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  2. p53 October 2011 at 06:35

    We like having picnics.

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  3. Anonymous3 October 2011 at 11:33

    It looks like you had a fantastic morning at Muddisdale. I wish I had been there too - especially for all that lovely food! Lois's mum

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  4. Anonymous7 October 2011 at 05:59

    Looks like you all had great fun both making the food and eating the food at Muddisdale. It was good that the sun decided to shine and that you had a fun afternoon of games etc. Hide n seek looked great fun. Caroline (Louise's mum)

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  5. Anonymous7 October 2011 at 06:03

    Forgot to say I loved the posters and liked reading the One Planet picnic reports on Wiki link. Well done P5 Caroline (Louise's mum)

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  6. Anonymous10 October 2011 at 10:05

    looks like you had a lot of fun Ellas mum

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  7. Anonymous4 November 2011 at 11:41

    wow

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