Spanish Club

We had another session full of fun again, this time the games and competition between school age kids and more senior kids from the previous week were replaced by the making of some delicious cultural foods, which turned out to be a relieve for the poor joints of the not so young kids who are still recovering seven days after.

With the overarching theme of Empanadas, we engaged in the craft of creating different versions of these snacks that are classic foods in different Latin-American and Spanish locations.

Empanadas are a similar food to a Cornish pasty or sausage roll, with different fillings, and with some native spices from the Americas.

We used three different fillings: tuna based (which is used in the northwestern part of Spain- Galicia), corn and cheese based, and beef- based (fillings that are popular in Argentina and Chile).

For the making of empanadas you can use different doughs (masa), puff pastry and or short crust are some of the popular ones that are commercially available, also you can make your own dough too if you are one of those one that enjoy to get your hands blessed by the touch of flower and water, and we were lucky to have a homemade Galician empanada dough that Nicole had carefully crafted and you can for sure taste the difference! Gracias Nicole!

Empanadas have become a popular item at school events like Fête de la Primavera and Movie Night, and we’re so happy to see them embraced by the community. It’s a joy to share the love for cultural foods and to celebrate the flavours that bring us together. Hispanics love to demonstrate love through food and there was plenty of love shared this last Monday. It was beautiful to see children and parents enjoying putting together empanadas and then playing together while the empanadas were in the oven.

We also have the presence of the flag ship of Colombian food on Monday; the very famous and lovely “arepas” which are made of a dough based on corn.

 The Spanish Club is a space open to the whole school community and not just for the Spanish speaking one. The activities are usually explained in both languages. The activities are intended to show a little bit about different traditions and games from the Spanish speaking world in an attempt to interconnect with our Australian community. 

It is a great space for carers and parents who are not from Hispanic background to learn some words in Spanish and for those who are learning Spanish in different platforms like Duolingo a very friendly space to practice it.

For the next session of the Spanish Club which will be on the 16th of June students will be learning about different birds in Chile, as well as creating bird masks.

Nos vemos

Spanish sub- committee.