St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

We have been busy baking and cooking again this year and love learning lots of different skills during these lessons. We are very lucky that Mrs. Kelly has the BEST recipes for us to try and it’s definitely our favourite time of the week! So far this year we have made homemade sausage rolls, scones, apple pie, jam tarts and garlic bread.

Through baking, we learn lots of important life skills, as well having the chance to practise some Maths concepts in real life. For example, every time we bake we get the chance to measure out ingredients, estimate how long each recipe will take to cook, time how long our dishes need in the oven and at what temperature and calculate how much each dish costs to cook. We have also started to compare the price of home cooked meals to those items we might buy in the shop for a quick breakfast or lunch fix and found out that home cooked meals are much more reasonably priced (as well being absolutely delicious 😋)

Mrs. Kelly shows us that it’s possible to bake/ cook any of our favourite dishes and we all agreed that our homemade sausage rolls this year were top notch – some even rated them 10/10! 💯😁

After every baking lesson we have the chance to practise our recount skills by recalling exactly what steps we took to make our dish. We also get the opportunity to practise our procedural writing skills when we record our recipes. If anyone needs to know how to make any of our delicious recipes so far, just ask! We’d be happy to share 🙂

Presentation is also key 👍 Mrs. Kelly helps us to present our final product in a very professional looking way! We had great reviews from our families and friends about how delicious our baking tasted. A huge thanks to Mrs. Kelly for all her help and for making our baking/cooking lessons such an enjoyable part of school!