Paella Party

Year 7 and 8 students got the chance to bring their parents into school on Monday 22nd June.  Students and parents joined with the languages and DT department to complete a Spanish language and cooking course.  Armed with bags of ingredients pairs learnt the Spanish words for different vegetables and followed instructions in Spanish in order to cook their own Paella.  Games, restaurant vocab and spanish snacks and sangria rounded off the Spanish experience.  

Mr Edwards and Mrs Gibson 

The Rotary Club Challenge- March 2010

We entered two teams  from Dowdales this year. They were competing in both the Basic and intermediate categories. The task was to create a lighthouse from given materials. Both teams completed the task and after a tense battle year 10 were victorious and year 9 runners up.

Well done !!!

Creators of the Month 2010

Each month we reward one student in KS3 and one in KS4 with the title of Creator of the month.   

	KS3	KS4
January 2010	Joe Dennett Year 7	Emily Rushworth Year 10 Textiles
February 2010	Thomas Jessiman - Meijer Year 7	Daniel Chesters Year 11 Graphics
March 2010	Gemma Henley Year 8	Erin Tubman Year 10 Food
April 2010	Matthew Rushton Year 7	Ashley Salmon Year10
May 2010	Dominique Conlin-White Year 7	Ben Burchell Year 10
June 2010	Georgia Drew Year 8	Ben Bleackley Year 10

Chef Club

Thursday nights have been very busy in the Technology department.  John Murray (Furness College Chef) has been working with students in year 9 as part of our after school chef club.  Students have had the opportunity to cook dishes like meat and potato pie, moroccan veg with cous cous, thai crab cakes, chicken jalfrezi and the very popular sticky toffee pudding!



Easter Cake Competition

The Dowdales house cake competition took place on the last day before Easter.  Students from year 7, 8 and 9 competed to produce the best Easter cake in each category.  Prizes of Easter eggs, merit certificates and house points were presented to all competitors. Well done to all entrants.

  Melaina White - First Prize Year 7 - Windermere

 Faye Patton - First Prize Year 8 - Thirlmere

 Ryan Braithwaite - First Prize Year 9 - Thirlmere

Second prizes went to Aiden Scott of Coniston in year 7, Eleanor Clough of Grasmere in year 8 and Erin Tubman of Derwent in year 9.