Beyonce - Countdown Rendition

Check out this rendition of Beyonce's video Countdown. Its funny yet so on point.

Lipsticks for Fall

Girls if you are a lover of make-up, you'll love this!

Fall is here and girlies its time to revamp our make-up. This fall the lip colours in trend are very deep, dark yet bright colours like berry, cherry reds, plum. on the flip side nudes can be rocked this fall. Check out 'start2finishmua' for her tips.

 

Girl on Fire

You, yes you are unique and beautiful in your own right! Due to peer-pressure at times us girls feel they need to look or be a certain way but learn to love yourself. A very empowering song for all females is Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire. You can check out the full album for free via Soundcloud. ‘Girl On Fire’ hits stores on Tuesday, November 27th.Check it out!

Solange is coming to London

Solange Knowles (more famously known as Beyonce's sister) is going to be in concert here in London in the new year. She will be doing her thing on 16th January 2013 at London's XOYO in Shoreditch. If you are a fan of Solange you will know that she has hits such as 'T.O.N.Y' and more recently, 'Losing You'. Her style of music is R&B/ Soul/ Pop so if you're wondering how to celebrate in the new year, why not go and check her out? Tickets can be purchased online

Baytree Christmas Showcase 2012

 

Each year The Baytree Centre holds a Christmas event to showcase what the girls have achieved in the autumn/winter term. This year it will be held on Thursday13th December from 5-7pm. Parents, carers, aunties, sisters are all welcome to come and celebrate what the girls have achieved and learnt. It will be a fun and entertaining evening, with fashion shows, dance performances, drama presentations, vocal performances,  food and drink and much more. So if you are a female and interested in coming to watch our show you are very welcome.

 

Baytree Cookery Class

Here at the Baytree we run cookery classes every week for the girls. The class has proven to be a success and one of the most popular classes. In the last autumn term the cookery theme was 'World Cookery' which were all savoury dishes. The girls explored a variety of international dishes such as Greek style baked chicken with feta, Chinese sweet and sour chicken and our famous old spaghetti bolognese from Italy.

The girls have been really enjoying learning to bake and cook the various recipes. This term the girls are baking. So far they have done muffins, Victoria sponge cake, chocolate fudge cake, fairy cakes, chin chin biscuits; which in is an African style of biscuits.
Today the girls are making Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing and white Chocolate Mud Cake (yum!).

If you are interested in baking any of these yourselves check out the recipes on the next page...

Baytree are Recruiting a New Youth Forum

Calling all girls 14-19 years old, The Baytree Centre Youth department are recruiting a new Youth Forum!

We are in search of 15 bright, inspiring, dedicated young ladies who are passionate about helping out in the community. By this we mean creating opportunities for other young females that will motivate them to develop their creative, academic skills as well as their confidence.

We only require you to come to The Baytree Centre fortnightly for meetings with our Youth Engagement Officer (our lovely Lynnike). This will be to plan and manage activities and events that you would like at The Baytree Centre. You will be a positive role model to the other girls here.

It's a great opportunity, being an ex youth forum member myself I can say there were many benefits of joining;

• I managed to develop my own confidence, talents and interpersonal skills. 

• Its nice to know that I have given back to the community. The meetings are only every fortnight yet are very productive in terms of planing and managing the new events and activities.

• There is an amazing sense of achievement in seeing the end result and how projects turn out.

The overall experience is positive and enjoyable and I would recommend it to girls who are willing to commit to this project.