Pep Talk - 6 October 2020

Pep Talk Weekly

6 OCTOBER 2020

Teachers Day World

MONDAY 5 OCTOBER

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to all of our Peponi teachers.

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Monday Morning Assembly

A Message to the Parents Dear Peponi House Parents, I hope you are all safe and well. It has been good to note the very positive Parent Teacher Meetings that have taken place this week and great to see and hear of so much productive work taking place in these unusual and tricky circumstances.

Here at school we have continued to plan for our possible reopening. When the time comes and we are given the go-ahead from the Government, we are certainly all very much look forward to seeing and meeting everyone again.

We have heard it said often that the coming years will be very different from those of the past. For instance, ‘many of the jobs our children will be doing do not even currently exist’, and that sort of thing. Consequently there is a clear need for children to develop transferable skills and attitudes that will support them in facing whatever challenges their future holds.

These last six months might just reap some positive outcomes for our children as they have had to adapt and learn in a very different way. Their technical and computing skills have certainly been enhanced – as have most adults’ too I expect – and everyone has had to communicate differently and work in a new way.

Independent learning has been brought into focus and teachers too have learned new ways in which engage with their classes. Online learning has been a problem for us all to solve. To their credit the children have generally taken responsibility and found the solution. Hard work reaping rewards is as true online as in the classroom and in life.

I have heard that when schools went back in England that very quickly it was as if everyone had never been away and understandably the joy of seeing friends again was a very real ‘feel good’ factor. So we can look forward to that.

Please remember that tomorrow Peponi Schools are closed for a day of rest and catch-up.

I hope you are able to find a little time to relax with the family over the next few days.

With very best wishes, Yours sincerely,

Neil Price

Can we meet your pets?

Joven with his dogs.

Lennox and Coco’s cat Percy and tortoise Gaston.

Kaylen with the compound dog.

Stanley, the new edition to Lennox and Coco’s house.

Nathan and his dog Sambi at Karura forest...

Rian with his pets.

Tommy and Lisa with Nala and Fupi.

Zuri and Simba.

Chef Ali’s

Recipe of the Week BEEF LASAGNE Ingredients: Meat sauce: 1tbs oil 1finely chopped onion 1 Carrot, diced into small cubes 4 cloves garlic 1 stick leeks 1 stick celery 1kg lean mince meat 1/2kg skinned crushed tomato 5 heaped tbs Tomato paste 4 beef stock cubes 50ml Worcestershire sauce 2tbs brown sugar 4 leaves bay leaves 1 tsp each oregano, basil, thyme Salt and pepper to taste White sauce: 4 tbs butter 1/4 cup all purpose flour 3 1/2 cups milk Cup shredded Parmesan Lasagna sheets 500g mozzarella Chopped fresh parsley

Directions: 1. Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat, then add in the onion, celery and carrots cook for 8-10min or until softened. Add garlic and sauté for a min till fragrant.

2. Add beef and cook while breaking with the cooking spoon until browned.

3. Pour the tomatoes and paste, stock cubes, herbs and mix well to combine and simmer gently, add the seasoning and sugar and cook covered for 20-30min.

White sauce: 1. In a pot melt butter over medium heat. remove from hot plate ,add the flour and whisk for about 30 seconds till it blends well.

2. Place pot back onto stove and reduce heat and slowly whisk in the milk till it’s well blended with no lumps and into a creamy consistency, increase heat and cook stirring for another 7 min to a thick sauce.

3. Add in the Parmesan and remove from heat add chopped leeks and 1/2 parsley to the sauce.

4. Heat oven to 180 degrees.

5. Spoon 1cup white sauce on a base of a baking sheet then cover with lasagna sheets, layer with 2cups of meat sauce,1 cup white sauce and half mozzarella cheese, Repeat layers leaving some cheese for the top.

6. Bake for 25min or till golden brown and bubbling.

7. Garnish with the remaining parsley and rest for 10 min slice serve and Enjoy.

Chef’s Tips tables eps with vege Repeat same st a. ie lasagn to make a vegg

The Junior

Wall Of Wonder Emilie did a fantastic ‘Raptor’ painting in art.

2R

In English Year 2 have been looking at alliteration. Aanika came up with some great words to use in her sentences.

Louisa created some very realistic looking fossils and then went on a dig to find them.

3E Adnan created this super Lego cartouche in Humanities and Diya used rice to spell out her name in hieroglyphics!

Stella creat ed a raptor using water has done a colours. Sh sup e colours and er job blending using different showing pat tern work.

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Joshua work ed very har d in Maths this week to iden ti fy the properti es of 2D Sh apes.

Kianna has done a brilliant job in her RS. I will be sending Aaliyah’s work later on today. Joven made a beautiful cartouche!

Ronji creati ng this fantastic symmetrica l pattern.

4S

Artus and L exi for creating such beautifu l symmetrica l patterns.

3K

Olivia and Radhika for their great w ork on Reading Eg gs.

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Reading Eggs

Champions Year 3 have been busy on the Reading Eggs website, writing books and reading. Here are this week’s champions. Well done to you all!

Fatima and Joven Nathan

Olivia and Radhika

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Year 7 and 8 Pupils looked at masks designed by a Hong Kong Fashion designer. They were asked to create a mask that reflects their Personal History. The winners were:

Year 7

First Rian Shah Second Equal Aanya and Agamjot Third Equal Kiara and Alina 5 honourable mentions - Keya, Aayan, Siana, Tanya and Tamika

Year 8 First

Second

Third

Nia for good colour and colour coordination with her eye shadow.

Jaanvi and Mattie for creative use of materials Jaanvi Shah’s mask - “I made my mask of a broken and depressed world when COVID-19 started.”

Mathilda Tricks’s mask to represent how much PPE has added to our already mighty amount of plastic pollution!

Zac for good patterns and materials

Well done, everybody!

Year 8 were asked to complete drawings of their surroundings last week. Here are some examples.

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Year 3

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