Tuesday 28 February 2017


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Welcome back!!

Our first meeting of the year was a great opportunity to welcome back our families, specially Sandy, Timka, Zoya and Alex. They'd been travelling around the world for 6 months and it was great to hear their stories and adventures in different countries. 

We also welcomed a new Russian family - Natalia, Vlad and Xenia. Great to have you joining us!!

Our meeting started with our usual welcome in different languages. An opportunity for the children to practice their mother tongue and for all of us to introduce ourselves while learning a little of other beautiful languages too.  

We've been talking in previous meetings about national symbols and national anthems. So at the beginning of our session this week, we played a few anthems from New Zealand, Brazil, Russia and France. 

We then started to play our games themed around Europe. The children were really good when listing the countries belonging to the European continent followed by their capitals and the language they speak. Awesome effort! 

After the games, Sandy started the presentation about the countries they had travelled to with the help of Timka and Zoya who shared their experience visiting Russia, Poland and also their days when they attended a school in France. Alex also joined the presentation to teach us some Russian words and the alphabet. We all loved to see pictures from Aki and family that Sandy shared with us of when they met them in Japan. We miss you guys!

Our meeting finished with our communal lunch. An opportunity for all the families to relax over a cuppa, talk to each other and try all the yummie traditional food. We loved the Russian Pierogi! Thanks Sandy!! If you would like to try it at home, here is a recipe I found in the internet. Enjoy!!

Don't forget to check the photos of the day below. :)

Pierogi – small filled pies


The stuffed buns pirozhki (Russian: пирожки) are probably one of the most famous dishes of Russian cuisine. They are made of yeast dough and stuffed with meat, vegetable or fruit filling. Usually pirozhki are baked, but it is also possible to fry them. This is a recipe for basic yeast dough and three vegetable fillings (Carrot with onion and eggCabbage with onion,Green onions with egg). In Russia, pirozhki are served with sour cream or melted butter.
Ingredients for the dough
750 g (= 6 cups)flour
350 ml (=1.5 cups)water
30 gyeast (room temperature)
170 ml (=5.5 oz)sunflower oil
3 tspsalt
1 1/2 tspsugar
1egg
1 tbspbutter
This dough is best for pierogi with vegetable fillings, for example, with mashed potatoes, carrots, cabbage or green onion.
Good to know: In Russia a pierog (russ.: пирог) is a big pie with one filling. Small pierogi are called pierozhkí (russ.: пирожки).

Pierogi – step by step


















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