“This year, our year 4 design and technology project was something to behold,” smiles Suzie Bradshaw, assistant head teacher of Hillborough junior school in Luton, remembering how children designed, made and evaluated their very own fruit-based smoothies. “They applied scientific thinking, artistic flair, and genuine culinary courage,” she says. “And our Send pupils have had their learning brought to life in ways we could only have dreamed of before. They have explored their senses through fruit tasting and testing, applied mathematical thinking by making fruit clocks, and – most recently – set up their very own community cafe as part of an enterprise project.”
You’ll remember the old adage about pupils bringing an apple for the teacher. But these days teachers are giving apples – alongside cucumbers, watermelons and a rainbow-coloured range of other fruit and vegetables – to their pupils to enhance their learning in ever more creative ways.
