Parliamo Italiano Insieme!

Let's speak Italian together!

We invite parents to become involved in their child's language learning, or even learn some Italian themselves,  as we provide some new Italian language tips with each newsletter. 

This week we visited Moama Pizza and our phrase to learn is, "buon appetito!" In English, this is "enjoy your meal!" The students certainly enjoyed making and eating their pizza on the day.

Visit to Moama Pizza

Ciao a tutti!

On Monday 14 October the Year 9 and 10 Italian classes power walked to Moama Pizza. When we arrived we were given a demonstration of how they make their pizza dough. After we washed our hands we were ready to begin kneading the dough into balls. We then used the rolling machine to create perfect pizza bases, some had more success than others in this. With our bases we were ready to begin putting toppings on our own pizzas. We all started with the amazing house made Napoli sauce, followed by a variety of toppings. La pizza era buonissima!

After cooking our pizzas they were sliced and placed into cardboard boxes ready for eating. Moving into the restaurant with our can of drink we began to devour our delicious pizzas.

A big grazie to all the staff at Moama Pizza who helped us make the amazing pizzas, we all enjoyed this experience very much!

Italian Film Festival

During the Term 3 holidays, the Year 11 students went to Melbourne to experience the 20th celebration of the Italian Film Festival. In the 3 days that we stayed in Melbourne, we watched five different Italian movies with a number of different genres ranging from drama, romantic, comedies and a mystery thriller. We enjoyed most of the movies, well from what we could understand from the very different story lines that are evident through our regular movies. 

The movies were scattered all around the Melbourne suburbs allowing us to test our navigating skills. We traveled to St Kilda, South Yarra, Brighton and all through the city. All of the cinemas were beautiful and it’s safe to say we all ate way too much popcorn throughout the trip. 

We were given the chance to visit Italian restaurants in Lygon Street and Hardware Lane. This gave us the opportunity to order our food and talk to the waitress in Italian, helping us to improve our conversation skills and our range of Italian vocabulary. We all enjoyed the traditional pizza and pasta, giving us a taste of Italy in the heart of Melbourne.

It was a very enjoyable and beneficial trip allowing us to improve on our Italian understanding as well as getting to learn more about each other. Thank you to Mrs Polvere for letting the trip go ahead and dealing with the four of us during your holidays. 

By Hannah Mills, Ruby Frew, Ingrid Wakefield and Sarah Porter

Buongiorno a tutti.