Italian Day

Our annual Italian Day is taking place on Friday 29th November. 

During Italian Day our students will take part in a range of activities to celebrate the beautiful language and culture of Italy. 

Italian Day is a dress up day, so it would be great to see children coming to school dressed in Italian theme. This may involve wearing the colours of the Italian flag, dressing as an ancient Roman, coming as a gondolier, traditional cultural dress, a character from the commedia dell’arte such as Arlechino, or whatever other idea you and your child may have.

There will be an assembly at 9.00 am during which students will get a chance to show off their costumes during our traditional Italian Day parade. At 3pm the students will meet together to perform a learnt routine to ‘Mambo Italiano’ as a whole school before the end of the day.

Parents are very welcome to attend the morning assembly and end of day dance performance.

During the day our students will learn in multi-age groups containing students from each year level, instead of their normal classes.  

These groups will work together on a range of activities to explore Italian culture and get a little bit creative.

During the day, students will also enjoy a 60-minute show from a visiting performer in the Performing Arts Room. This show will be a fun interactive performance, where students will travel to Rome, Italy, for a ‘Vacanze Romane’ - Roman vacation! Once there, they will scoot around on a bright red vespa, visiting all the famous landmarks and learning some important words along the way!

Students will also enjoy a slice of ‘Toppolinos’ margarita pizza and ‘7 Apples’ chocolate, lemon or strawberry gelato. Please bear in mind that the pizza and gelato is a snack only and children will also need to bring lunch to school. We will cater to all food allergies and intolerances that we are aware of, If you want to check anything regarding this please speak to your child’s contact teacher.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Grazie mille,

Joseph Masci

1/2 Classroom Teacher and Italian Specialist