Last week children in KS2 took the opportunity to harvest the vegetables from the raised beds. After much digging the children were delighted with their haul of carrots and shallots. One child suggested that we should “cook the carrots.” This led on to another lesson of making vegetable soup and carrot cake! After much weighing, measuring of liquids, reading scales, good time management and multiplying items to ensure the recipe was suitable for a bigger audience, we were left with a tasty pot of vegetable soup and the most delicious carrot cake. If you ask your child what they learnt in school this week and their response is “we didn’t learn anything”, let me assure you, we covered weight, capacity, number work, wonderful language development, instructional writing and life skills but most importantly we had fun while we did it! Sometimes we must take the lead from our children when it comes to their learning, it may not have been in the original plan but that doesn’t mean that the learning isn’t valuable!
