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Pancake Day began in the 15th century in England. The custom began as follows:
A woman was cooking pancakes when she heard the church bell  ringing. To catch the Service she left her house with her apron on, her scarf and the pan with  the pancake in her hand! In order not to burn the pancake she tossed it three times until she got to the church.

The custom is one day before Lent.The British fry pancakes because people can’t eat dairy products  during Lent.Women usually participate, they wear: an apron, a scarf and hold a pan with the pancake in their hand. The most famous pancake race takes place at Olney.

Click on the video to see this year’s Pancake Race  in Olney!!!!!!!

By Mars Skorpios, Ntaiz and Twitte

Hello! We are the 6th class of the  1st Primary School of Akrata and we’re writing about an event that happened in our school on Friday, 24th February.

On Friday morning we had to have ingredients to cook  pancakes because on 21th it was Shrove Tuesday-Pancake Day in England . Then we read Miss L’s recipe  and we prepared the batter.

Two mothers of our classmates ( Mrs Mary and Mrs Vessie ) helped us to cook the batters that we made. Three children of our class made the awards for the winner classes ( spatulas ). Then we prepared a theatrical play to present the  custom of  Pancake Race to our school .

When we finished the script, we prepared the stage and we invited the other classes and the kindergarten to  see our performance (Our Pancake theatrical play ).

Then, we began the race . At first, all classes raced.

The funniest moment was ”The teachers’ race”. We laughed very much!!!

We are so excited because we made the children and the teachers to have fun !!!

By  Costas,

Emilian

and Panagiotis

This theatrical play presents Shrove Tuesday. We wrote it on February 24th because we wanted to show the children of our school what is Shrove Tuesday.

Αφηγητής 1 : Τον 15ο αιώνα στην Αγγλία μια μέρα πριν τη Σαρακοστή μία νοικοκυρά καθώς έφτιαχνε τηγανίτες άκουσε την καμπάνα της εκκλησίας να χτυπάει.
Αφηγητής 2: Για να μην χάσει τη λειτουργία, αφηρημένη με τη ποδιά , το σκούφο και στο χέρι το τηγάνι με τη τηγανίτα πήγε στην εκκλησία.
Αφηγητής 1 : Από τότε καθιερώθηκε το έθιμο της τηγανίτας. Όσοι θέλουν μπορούν να πάρουν μέρος την << Ημέρα της Τηγανίτας>>.
Αφηγητής 2 : Όσοι παίρνουν μέρος, ξεκινούν από ένα καθορισμένο σημείο και προσπαθούν να φτάσουν στην εκκλησία και να πετάξουν τρεις φορές την τηγανίτα στον αέρα και να την ξαναπιάσουν. Όποιος το κάνει πρώτος κερδίζει.

We played it and presented to the children of our school and the children of the nursery school.The roles were:

The housewife- Ntaiz

People- Original, Betty Boo, Robin, Twitte and Baboulas

The priest- Bobhras

The narrators- FBI and the key

The other children liked it and clapped us.
In our opinion this day was wonderful because we ate a lot of pancakes!!!!

By Sakis Rouvas, Original and Bobhras.

By Stazia, Chris, Debbie, Panagiotis.

Please read this text and do the  quiz.

By Marina, Dimitris St., Thodoris, Dimitra and Markos