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• Christmas Holiday Club

  Mon 04 Dec 2023 BS

  This is free to children in receipt of Free School Meals, taking place at HIghfields School on 3 - 5th January.  Also open to book for non-FSM pupils.

   

  https://progressive-sports-derbyshire.co.uk/schoolholidayclubs?fbclid=IwAR1KbMRSbpH00BBNNf07Ls8rexDyTMMNNX8FSt0Ez-cyIeWAP6U9lSlPjig

  

• Elton Table Top and Craft Fair

  Sat 18 Nov 2023

  Thanks to everyone who contributed or called in to the Table Top and Craft Fair at Elton Village Hall.  We raised £150 in total for school funds.

• How to add a website shortcut to your device

  Wed 18 Oct 2023

  For quick access to our schools website, please add an icon shortcut to your mobile device using the instructions on our "Welcome" page.

• Free Tennis Coaching Sessions

  Fri 29 Sep 2023
  

• Flu Vaccinations October 2023

  Fri 22 Sep 2023

  If you would like your child to receive the flu vaccine in school, please follow this link to complete an online consent form.

   

  https://nhsImms.azurewebsites.net/session/4a6d4100

   

  The vaccinations will take place at your child’s school on 23/10/2023 If your child has already had the Nasal Flu vaccine since Sept 2023 please disregard this message and If you have any problems accessing the link, please telephone 0333 358 3397 to speak to a member of the team

• Junior Big Sing at County Hall

  Wed 20 Sep 2023

  See the flier in school for this fun event which is open to all and free of charge!

• Singing School at Matlock Bath

  Mon 24 Jul 2023

  Mr Hunter will be at Matlock Bath Primary School with Rachel Wilkes delivering the summer Singing School from 24th - 26th July.  This is a lovely event with singing, games and finishing up with a concert.  Running from 9.30 - 3.30 each day, the cost is just £50 for the three days and places can be booked online at derbyshiremusichub.org.uk/singing-summer

• Spanish Cooking with Mrs Uchuari

  Wed 29 Mar 2023 B Southam

  Some of our children are having Spanish lessons with Mrs Uchuari, and they recently made some delicious Easter treats.  Here is the recipe in case you'd like to try this at home!

   

  RECIPE

  Torrijas – typical Spanish Easter treat (similar to eggy bread or French toast)

   

  Ingredients

  * 12 slices of bread *

  1 litre of milk

  2 eggs

  Sunflower oil for frying

  4 tablespoons of sugar

  3 cinnamon sticks

  zest of 1 lemon

  zest of 1 orange

  sugar and ground cinnamon to sprinkle over

   

  Instructions

  1. Pour the milk into a pan with the 4 tbsp of sugar, the lemon and orange zest and the cinnamon sticks. Put on medium heat for 10 minutes but do not allow to boil. Take off the heat and allow to cool until lukewarm.

  2. Put the milk in a large, shallow container and place the bread in it. Turn the bread over so that the milk soaks in on both sides.

  3. Next take the bread out and brush beaten egg on both sides of the bread and fry the bread in the sunflower oil. Make sure the bread cooks through but doesn’t burn on the outside.

  4. After place the bread on a tray covered with kitchen roll to soak up the excess oil.

  5. Allow to cool then sprinkle very generously with a mix of sugar and ground cinnamon.

   

  This was a bit of trial and error, I had a go at home with my daughter and the bread turned out way too soggy. After many whatsapp messages to Spanish friends we made a few modifications to the instructions above, so hopefully you will make fantastic torrijas!

  One friend also uses honey on hers, and adds brown sugar to the sprinkle mix, but that’s a matter of personal taste.

   

  * PLEASE NOTE * the type of bread is key to the success of this recipe. The bread they use in Spain isn’t available here - what I found worked best was baguette, cut diagonally to make it bigger and about 4cm thick. Bakewell Coop baguette was too thin, Morrisons or Sainsburys make a thicker one which is better.

• Thanks to BD Yates Construction

  Wed 15 Mar 2023

  Many thanks go to Ben from BD Yates Construction Ltd who has very kindly donated £50 towards the cost of new books for our library.

• Comic Relief 2023

  Tue 14 Feb 2023

  We're fundraising for comic relief.  If you would like to support us, simply go to our just giving page by clicking this link: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rednoseday23-elton-cfe-primary-school