Issue 11 • July 2016

Healthy Eating Week
During the week commencing 13th June BCHS
with Crosshill supported Healthy Eating Week
with students taking part in challenges in and
outside of school hours. The aim of the Week was
to promote healthy eating and drinking, being
active, food provenance and cooking.
The Queen’s 90th Birthday
Students and staff at Blackburn Central High
School with Crosshill hung out the bunting to
celebrate the Queen’s 90th Birthday for a week,
ending with a Friday afternoon tea and retro
school yard games such as elastics, skipping,
hopscotch, and hula hoops.
As part of Healthy Eating Week students had the
opportunity to take part in five daily challenges with
a focus on behaviour change, these challenges
were ‘have breakfast’, ‘have 5 a day’, ‘drink plenty’,
‘get active’, ‘try something new’.
Students and staff both had the chance to try a
range of new and different healthier foods and
drinks that were on offer in the school restaurant
during breakfast, break and dinner; including
breakfast smoothies, malt loaf, granola, natural
yogurt, curried rice, and Chinese noodle salad.
Our Food Technology
teacher Mr McCrone held a
Master Cook competition
with students pairing
with members of staff to
demonstrate a range of skills
in the preparation of a variety
of dishes, and also taught
about the sensory testing
of foods in lessons. Miss
Cliffe, Director of PE, kept
the students active with fun
exercises every morning.
We’d like to thank Morrisons supermarket 104 for
their amazing donation of fresh fruit and vegetables
for our sensory testing of food lessons.
Thanks to the hard work of the EAL and SEN
departments, along with Mr McCrone from
Food Technology, our students enjoyed a freshly
prepared afternoon tea of triangle sandwiches,
followed by jam and cream scones, whilst listening
to music popular from when Queen Elizabeth II was
their age.
The SEN area had been decorated for the occasion
with bunting and union jack flags, and tables laid
with red and blue napkins and white paper doilies.
The students had a great time, chatting excitedly,
and enjoying afternoon tea with their friends from
both Blackburn Central High School and Crosshill,
then wished her Majesty happy birthday from
everybody at BCHS with Crosshill.
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