Cheesy Chips prove a popular snack

Every evening after prep we have snacks in the kitchen together.  On Tuesday I cooked Cheesy chips for the girls.  This proved very popular.

Cheesy chips cooking under the grill

Year 9s are first to start. Lizzie, Rigam, Emily, Bella and Manaho.

Martha, Lizzie, Rigam, Emily, Bella, Simran and Manaho

Same again!

Years 10 - 13 join in.  Olga, Charli, Jessie, Sarah, Abi and Jane

Bipina, Christy, Rachana, Emily, India, Abi, Prpati, Chloe and Lottie

 

Weekend Clay Pigeon Shoot

This weekend, a clay pigeon shoot was put on for the boarders.  Some of the girls joined in and went up to the Upper.

Emily, Sarah, Abi and India

India

Sarah, Abi (??) and India

Emily

Emily

 A big thank you must go to Mr Chua for organising the event.

Fireworks at the Rec

The Summerhill girls and a few friends from Fonthill have just got back from watching the fireworks at the Bath Rec.  It was brilliant.

I made everyone sweet treats.  My mum always made treacle toffee for me when I was younger so I made a batch for my girls to try.  I also made peanut brittle and fudge.  The girls took a section down with them to have with the display.

Not much left here

We met up in Summerhill to walk down together ...

.... and then regrouped outside the Podium.  Then onto the fireworks.

It was a prefect night .....

... no rain and actually quite warm.  The fireworks were brilliant.  Half an hour of superb, deep bangs, sparkles and hisses. 

We regrouped again at the end and made our way back to Summerhill.

Dave decided we needed nourishment so looked out for us with chips, both cheesy and non-cheesy which went down really well.

 

It was a perfect way to finish the evening.

The girls relaxing in the kitchen

Mimi, Christy and India

 A huge 'thank you' to my girls for making the effort of walking to and from town.  I hope you all felt it was worth it because I'd love to do it all again next year.

Mrs B xx

Manaho's 15th birthday

Yesterday, we celebrated Manaho's birthday.  I left a present from her guardian by her bed for when she woke up.  We sang happy birthday to her during registration.  In the evening, we celebrated with double helpings of chocolate cake. :)

Birthday messages on the board

India, keen to be in the picture - while Abi is definitely not (looking good Bipina)

Texting while they wait - Manaho, Bella and Rigam

The song starts .... loving Manaho's grin

Mimi, Sarah and Olga looking on

Everyone singing

Blowing out the candles

Prapti enjoying the cake

Lara's birthday weekend

 Friday 10th October was Lara's 14th birthday.  Because the boarders were watching a film together after prep on Friday, we decided to celebrate Lara's birthday on Saturday.  But after we had eaten pizza on Saturday night we were too full for cake so we delayed it until tonight.

So we have officially had Lara's birthday weekend.  Tonight, we sang to Lara and ate cake and ice creams.  Please note Lara's birthday orange - in recognition of all the oranges Lara likes to eat (although she wishes they were easier to peel).

Lara with her birthday orange

All the girls singing to Lara

Still singing

Edith helping to dish out the cake

Everyone got either cake or ice cream

 

Homemade Pizza night

On Saturday, we had supper in Summerhill.  There was a choice offered by Dave - Roast Beef dinner or home-made Pizza.  Pizza won!

So, I put 5 batches of pizza dough through my bread machine.  The girls came through to our house in groups of 4s and shaped their dough.  It was then left to rise for 20  minutes.  They then came back and topped their bases with ingredients of their choice (tomato, home grow sweet corn, mushrooms, olives, mozzarella, Cheddar cheese, onions, pepperoni, peppers, chillies, bacon).  A quick bake in the oven and the pizza's were ready.  We were like a well oiled machine with one group shaping their dough as others were topping (trying to reduce the waiting time).

A big thank you to Dave for his support again, and for the girls for making the evening such good fun.

Group 1 - Lara, Lizzie and Bella

Lizzie 'helping Lara'

Lizzie's pizza - ready for the oven

Bella putting her pizza in the oven

Bella's finished pizza

Lara (who is not keen to have her photo taken)

Lara's finished pizza

Emily's finished pizza

Lizzie's finished pizza

Lizzie eating her pizza

Group 2 - Emma, Melissa, Christy and Mimi with Dave and Jess

Christy helping Mimi roll her dough

Topping pizza's

Emma choosing her toppings

Mimi's finished pizza

Melissa's finished pizza

Christy's finished pizza

Christy with her pizza

Emma made a heart shape - Dave decided it was funny to cut it like this!

Emma with her 'broken' heart

Em's

Lottie, Selene and Sarah

Group 3 - Chloe, Lottie, Selene and Sarah

The girls choosing their toppings

Chloe, starting with tomato

Sarah - ready to put her's in the oven

Chloe putting her pizza in the pven

Chloe with her finished pizza

Angela rolling her dough

Group 4 - Prapti, Angela, Manaho and Jess

Prapti, Angela, Manaho and Jess (with Charlie the cat)

Angela and Prapti choosing their toppings

Angela - ready for her pizza to go in

Manaho with her finished pizza

Jessica's star shaped pizza

Prapti with her pizza (underneath all that cheese is a lot of pepperoni)

Angela waiting for Dave to cut her pizza

Angela and Dave

Group 5 - Simran , Kristy and Rigam

Simran, Kristy and Rigam (with Dave)

Simran and Rigam

Rigam enjoying shaping her dough

Kristy and Rigam

Simran, Rigam and Kristy choosing their toppings

Apparently, this is a 'fish' shape

Baked fish pizza is ready

Kristy with her finished pizza

Got to love Rigam.  She put an egg in the middle of hers.

Zoe with her small, but perfectly formed pizza

Everyone in the lounge having either eaten, or eating their pizza's.  All good fun.