Tips

• Make sure you check if plastics are recyclable - Ruby, Year 7
• Keep plants in your tutor room, they are great for the environment and they look nice - Catherine, Year 7
• Bring a refillable water bottle to school instead of buying plastic bottles from the canteen - Jacinda, Year 7
• Pick your litter up off the floor and use the bins provided - Gabriella, Year 8

Recipe Ideas:

Vegan Lemon Loaf Cake

Needed: - 1 loaf tin - lemon juicer/ zester - baking parchment

Ingredients: - 100ml vegetable oil or sunflower oil - 275g self-raising flour - 200g caster sugar - 1tsp baking powder - 1 lemon - optional poppy seeds, or blueberries

Icing: - 150g icing sugar - ½ lemon juiced

Method:

1. Heat oven to gas mark 6, and line loaf tin with baking parchment.

2. Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, and lemon zest in a bowl (zest of ½ lemon)

3. Add oil, lemon juice (1/2 juiced) and 170ml water and mix until smooth

4. Add in extra ingredients, for example poppy seeds (3 tbsp) or blueberries.

5. Bake for 30 mins, and wait until a skewer comes out clean, transfer cake to drying rack to cool fully.

6. For icing, sieve icing sugar into a bowl and mix in lemon juice so the icing is thick and can pour over the loaf.