We went to pizza express as part of our food and health topic. Before we went on the trip, we did a risk assessment in groups and shared our answers.

At pizza express they showed us how to make a mozzarella pizza step by step which meant it was easy! “When we were making the pizza, they told us all of the ingredients for dough: water, oil, salt, sugar, flour, yeast” – Calum S.

We learned that the oldest olive tree that has ever lived is over 2000 years old! “Fungi is the Italian word for mushroom” – Rebecca

“They taught us how to flip dough in the air to make it bigger” Luca

“We had to put sauce in the middle of pizza dough and then tap the side of the pan to get to move round.”

We learned about hygiene and why you have to wash your hands and take off jewellery. We wore hat and apron to make the pizza.

In school we learned that cross contamination is when bacteria from one food goes into another food. You can use different chopping boards and put raw meat at the bottom of your fridge to stop cross contamination.

We learned about cooking, chilling and reheating food to make it safe to eat and learned the difference between best before dates and use by dates on food packaging.

This will be helpful in the future because we will be able to make food for ourselves and it will help us in home ec in high school.

Donovan, Emily and Nia