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Young Enterprise NI, in partnership with Moy Park Ltd is delighted to announce an exciting online venture for all pupils from the age of 8 to 12 years old to complete at home.
This venture, The Moy Park Challenge, is an online competition which will help pupils to develop skills such as creativity, thinking, problem solving, decision-making and using ICT as well as compete for the chance to win up to £50 as a prize! (see attached flyer).
Here’s what the pupil has to do:
They are set with the task of being a new Project Manager at Moy Park Ltd and their first job is to come up with a new and exciting chicken product or meal idea that will encourage people in Northern Ireland to eat more chicken! - as we all need to think about eating healthily and chicken is one of the best sources of protein.
1. Create a colourful and detailed ‘A4 poster’ advertising their chicken product ensuring their include a logo & slogan
2. Tell us about their idea and how they would encourage more people to eat chicken EITHER in a word document of no more than 200 words OR by a short video clip of no more than 60 seconds.
Find out more at www.yeni.co.uk/moyparkchallenge
The top 3 ideas will win up to £50 of vouchers and their creation will be shared across all our Social Media channels!
All entries to be submitted and emailed to Cathy Morrison by 22nd May 2020. Winners will be announced online on 29th May 2020.
Cathy Morrison
Senior Development Manager | Young Enterprise NI
Phone: 028 3801 3113 Mobile: 078 6659 5337
Working Hours: Monday-Friday 9.15-2.30pm (Tuesdays 9.15-5pm)
cathy.morrison@yeni.co.uk
Well done to the Yellow House this week - you have earned yourselves an impressive 70 house points with your brilliant efforts!
For the Yellow house, we had Ben, Ryan, Lucy, Sophie, Hanna, Harry and Mariana who kept themselves very busy making their names and initials with natural materials, bird watching, watering seedlings and hanging out washing.
For the Red and Blue houses, we had Rebekah, John, Beth, Will, Jonah and Ella who kept busy painting stones in their back garden, hanging out the washing and making fabulous bird houses as well as building dens and looking after their plants.
Finally, the Green house entries came from Jan, Jack and Zara who were very busy looking for minibeasts in their back garden and doing some planting.
A huge well done to everyone for continuing to get involved with our Eco School Home Challenge - it is so brilliant to see everyone taking part and finding the time to take photos and email them in. Thank you for your enthusiastic participation!
Week 3 house points:
Green = 30
Yellow = 70
Red = 40
Blue = 20
End of Week 3 totals………
Green = 170
Yellow = 100
Red = 60
Blue = 70
Well done everyone and thank you!
Mrs Craig
What you need:
400g SR Flour
1 teasp baking powder
Pinch of salt
75 g butter, cold and cubed
70g caster sugar
170 ml buttermilk
flavour of your choice
what you need to do:
Since we are unable to celebrate VE Day together, we are running a competition for you to do at home. All you have to do is design your own medal. Use whatever materials you have at home – it could be cardboard and tinfoil, plasticine, play doh, clay, paper, toilet roll tubes….just get creative and see what you come up with!
There will be 3 categories –
The most creative medal in each category will win a £10 gift voucher for Amazon
When you have completed your creative medal, send a picture of it to Mrs Taylor
All entries will be judged on TUESDAY 12th MAY and winners will be notified that day.
Have fun J
Want to know more about VE day? Watch this to find out more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9susRIKY2N8&list=PLVjmi8IIlkmuey7poNhqxPM1mZnZJNq-1
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I was delighted to see so many entries for our Eco Schools Home Challenge this week so thank you to every single one of you who took the time to send in your pictures - it was very exciting to read about what you're getting up to. I loved seeing how so many of you are continuing on our brilliant Eco Schools work in your own back gardens and neighbourhoods.
From the Green house we had Charlie, Hannah, Sam, Tom, Jack, Zara, Jasmine, Juliana and Jan completing a wide range of activities including hanging the washing outside, putting out the bin, planting seeds, watching birds, making their initials, painting rocks and doing plenty of creative outdoor learning.
In the Yellow house we had Ben, Ryan and Hanna who were busy helping with putting the bin out and planting some beautiful plants in their garden.
Then from the Red house, Rebekah and John have been busy watching lots of birds in their garden, as well as going on a minibeast hunt and enjoying lots of outdoor time.
Finally, from the Blue house we have Ruby, Sophie and Katie being very proud of their fabulous creations of making their names from leaves and twigs - great work girls!
Week 2 house points:
Green = 90
Yellow = 30
Red = 20
Blue = 30
Current totals………
Green = 160
Yellow = 30
Red = 20
Blue = 50
A huge well done to everyone and keep up the fabulous Eco work! I am looking forward to seeing what Week 3 brings!
Mrs Craig
This is Mary Berry's recipe and it's nice and moist
You need:
100g soft butter
175g caster sugar
2 eggs
225g SR Flour
1 teasp baking powder
2 tablesp milk
2 bananas, mashed
All you need to do is weigh out the ingredients into a bowl and mix together until the mixture is well blended. An electric mixer is best but you can do it with a wooden spoon.
Spoon the mixture into a prepared 2 pound loaf tin and bake at 180 degrees for about an hour.
leave to cool in the tin for a few minutes and then loosen with a small palette knife and turn the cake out.
slice and spread with butter. Enjoy :)
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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