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10 The Link Magazine • March 2001 www.swind
Pizza Hut becomes educational outlet
Youngsters at Brook Field School have been phone for receiving orders and a seating area.
putting pizzas into their education. Early Years Coordinator Sheryl Staton said
For the third year running Pizza Hut played the play area had proved very popular. "Chil-
host to the sixty children in the reception dren connect ideas to the real world through
classes when they walked to the restaurant at play; they talk activities through and interact
Shaw Ridge, shepherded by teachers and four- with each other and then sequence events. The
teen volunteer parents. Pizza Hut visit supports the early learning
As well as being great fun the visit also had goals; the children read menus, write down
a serious educational purpose as it launched orders and practice numeracy by using money,
a food topic for the term. The children assem- as well as cooperating with each other in role
bled their own pizzas which they then ate playing the running of the restaurant."
after being baked by restaurant staff. This She expressed her thanks to Pizza Hut deputy
fuelled them for the long walk back to school. manager Sadna Patel and her colleagues for
Following the visit a Pizza Hut restaurant helping to make a successful project.
was built in the corridor outside a classroom At your service: from left, Kyle Greenwood, Ashcon
which had everything the children needed to Riezi, Sean Gibbons, Chloe Lloyd, Lauren Grant,
play at making pizzas, including a kitchen, a Alex Hobbs
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are excellent relationships expected of them."
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The only recommendation for Stapley paid tribute to Mrs Pea-
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Visitors are always welcome Facilities based at Peatmoor School.
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