Baking, Litter Picking, Quizzes, Lunch and Music, all in a day at Ecole du lac.
After walking to school, our first task was to divide the pre-prepared dough for brioche into 50 gramme balls and knead them before setting aside to rise for later.
Then we set off for a litter picking walk around the village and it’s environs. Like Wanborough, St Cyr is on the side of a hill, so quite a bit of climbing up, before returning to school.
A picture for the local press:
Before lunch we took part in two Kahoot online bilingual quizzes, one about environmental issues and one maths and numeracy quiz.
Then it was lunch time in the canteen, with the French correspondents, then a good break.
The prepared brioche had been taken to the Le Four à Pain. This is an old bread oven in the village, which in past times would have been used by all the residents for baking. It was rediscovered when a farm was being re-developed for housing and a group of locals got together to resore it as a project.
It takes a long time to build up the heat in the oven, which is fired with wood, so it’s only used for special occasions, we were honored that they prepared it for our use.
The brioche were glazed with egg yolk, then put in a 500o oven for 30 minutes.
While the brioche were cooking, we returned to school to put together illustrated bilingual recipe instructions for the making them.
So where does the music come in? The class are performing a show at the end of term and gave us a preview of some of the songs and choreography.
Finally, time to try those brioche. We thought that we did a pretty good job!
Before leaving for the Centre, we gave our correspondents some smart bookmarks purchased by Wanborough School PTA. They were much appreciated.
Back to the Centre for a bit of down time after a packed day. Dinner this evening rumoured is to be fish and chips!
Tomorrow: La Rochelle!