Hazelnut and Lunar Arrive in New Zealand

A few days ago, Hazelnut and Luna arrived in New Zealand and decided to visit us here at Rowandale School. They looked exhausted when they came to my door. It must have taken them ages to get all the way from Faraday School in England. They brought a book with them to tell us all about London.

All of the children were very excited to meet our new friends. We made sure that we sat and listened very carefully when they read their story to us.

Later, it was our day to take care of some of the animals that live at our school so we decided to bring the two of them to help us with our work. Our pigs are named Hettie and Percy (but our chickens don't have any names).

We're looking forward to having our two new friends visit us this week. It's Maori Language Week, so hopefully they will go to their next school knowing some new words!

Bye Luna and Hazelnut. Welcome Koko and Kev.

Today was Luna and Hazelnut's last day at Faraday School. We have had such a great time with them and reception will miss them a lot but we are very happy to be sending them to Rowandale School in Auckland NZ. We hope they continue to have lots of fun adventures at lots of different schools around the world.

Today Koko the Koala arrived and she had a surprise visitor with her…Kev the Kiwi stowaway who wanted to keep Koko company on her journey. Thank you to the children from Clyde School for sharing Koko with us. We have lots more exciting learning to share with them both this week.

Reception, Luna and Hazelnut visit Pizza Express

Today the reception class took Luna and Hazelnut to Pizza Express in Wapping. We were so lucky as we got to learn about where different pizza ingredients come from and how they grow as well as making some delicious pizza!

First we talked about how to make pizza dough. We thought that you might need to add baking soda to make the dough rise but it is actually another ingredient called yeast. We got to roll and stretch the dough to see what it felt like.

Then we looked at some different ingredients that are used as pizza toppings. We didn’t know what some of the ingredients were like oregano or mozzarella so Maria taught us lots new information. 

We got to taste the different ingredients and reception were amazing risk takers, trying new things.

Xavier and YoYo didn’t think they would like the sun-dried tomato, but when they tried it they did! Amone also took a risk and tried some artichoke, which she really enjoyed and even wanted more. Kian wasn’t so keen on the artichoke but was proud of himself for trying it anyway.

We thought that pizza was invented in Italy but do you know where it was actually invented?

In Egypt.

Then we got to be pizza chefs. We pressed the dough in the dishes to make our bases. Next we swirled the tomato sauce around our bases until they were all covered. We spread out the cheese evenly over our pizza and finished them off with a sprinkle of oil and oregano.

Lastly we put them in the oven. The ovens are so hot at Pizza Express that they only need to cook the pizza for 5 minutes.

 We took our pizza back to school and had a big pizza feast. 

Thank you very much to Maria who taught us lots about making pizza today and to our wonderful helpers Dee and Vivienne. We had a great time!

Wombat Stew

Today we looked at a picture of the other teddy bears that are travelling around the world just like Luna and Hazelnut. Reception weren’t sure what a wombat was so we looked at some pictures on the Internet to find out.

Then we read the story ‘Wombat Stew’ and we found some other animals that are native to Australia. We decided it would be fun to make our own ‘Wombat Stew’ recipe to trick the clever Dingo.

What does a kangaroo eat?

Today during snack time, Taylor wondered what a Kangaroo eats? 

We asked the class what they thought a kangaroo might eat and they shared their ideas.

Taylor said “apple”

Mia said “carrot”

Zak said “grass”

Elsie said, “hay”

Christopher said “leaves”

We then realised that we didn’t know very much about kangaroos and decided to find out some information by looking on the Internet.

We found out that Kangaroos are native to Australia. They are herbivores and only eat plants. There are four different species of Kangaroo and reception thought that maybe Luna and Hazelnut were Eastern Grey Kangaroos because they live where more people live and Sydney is a big city.

Luna and Hazelnut arrive in London

The reception class at Faraday School were so excited to have Luna and Hazelnut arrive on Monday afternoon. It was a big surprise! We loved the picture that class 2G from Garden International School in Malaysia drew us. We are very impressed with your drawing skills. It even inspired some children in reception to draw their own pictures of Luna and Hazelnut too. Thank you for sharing Luna and Hazelnut with us. We look forward to having them with us this week.