10th June 2016 – 7 July 2016
This year 24 countries are competing in “EURO2016”, the European soccer competition. All matches are being held in France.
Students in Years 34 and 56 have been looking at the countries
competing in EURO2016 and are excited to be tracking
the matches.
Students in Years 56 have enjoyed learning about the history of
pizza this term and making their own “Pizza Margherita”.
Students in Years 56B and 56T made pizza last week.
Students in Years 56C and 56M will be making pizza next week.
Il Giro d’Italia Friday 6 May – 29 May 2016
This year’s Giro d’Italia is beginning in the Netherlands Friday 6 May 2016 and concludes on Monday 29 May.
SBS will be showing daily highlights of il Giro.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2016
January-February
6 January Epifania (La Befana visits children in Italy)
24 January – 9 February ‘Il Carnevale’, Italy
March
6 March Italian Auto Icons Display, Lygon Street, Cartlton
18 – 20 March 2016 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, Albert Park, Melbourne
http://www.grandprix.com.au/
27 March ‘Pasqua’ Easter Sunday
May
9 – 31 May ‘Il Giro d’Italia’, Italy
2016 Route for 99th Giro d’Italia:
Official promo 2016 Giro d’Italia:
Official jerseys Giro d’Italia 2016:
June
2 June ‘La festa della repubblica’ Italian National Day, Italy
July
2 July ‘Il Palio di Siena’, Siena, Italy
August
15 August -‘ Il Ferragosto’, Italy
16 August “Il Palio di Siena’, Siena, Italy
September
4 September ‘La Regatta Storica di Venezia’, Venice, Italy
September-October
Lavazza Film Festival, Melbourne (Dates to be confirmed)
October
Lygon Street Festa, Carlton (Date to be confirmed)
December
25 December ‘Natale’ Christmas
This week in Italian class, students from Years 56C, 56M, 56P and 56S enjoyed making their own bruschetta.
Next week students from Year 45B will make bruschetta.
Ingredienti per fare la bruschetta:
pane (bread)
pomodori (tomatoes)
basilico (basil)
aglio (garlic)
Students from Years 34J and 34M made un frullato
(a fruit smoothie) this week.
Next week students from Year 34T will be making frullati.
Ingredienti per fare un frullato:
latte (milk)
Frutta: (fruit):
banane (banana)
fragole (strawberries)
mirtilli (blueberries)
On Sunday 25th October, Piazza Italia will come alive with the
Italian Festa. Hosted by James Liotta who played Pippo in our
Italian Day incursion “Mission Gnocchi”.
This year the festival will run from 11 o’clock in the morning until
8 o’clock in the evening.
There will be free entertainment for the whole family including:
sporting activities, cooking demonstrations, comedy acts,
music and a Vespa display to name just a few.
Look out for Johnny di Francesco who took out
the world pizza title for his Margherita pizza
last year beating 600 contestants from 35
different countries.
Next term, students in Years 3 and 4 will be making “un frullato” a fruit smoothie.
Students will be able to choose their ingredients from:
bananas
raspberries
strawberries and
blueberries
Sardegna’s Fabio Aru won the title for The Tour of Spain!
The students had a great time on Italian Day.
The activities commenced on the basketball court with the parade followed by the staff waiters’ race team bianco vs team rosso. Then students moved to the hall for the incursion Mission Gnocchi:
After the incursion, students enjoyed a delicious lemon and chocolate gelato.
Thank-you to all the mums who helped distribute just under 400 gelati!
The Lavazza Italian Film Festival commences today at Palace cinemas.
All films are subtitled in English.
For details see:
www.lavazzafilmfestival.com.au
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