We thought about our favourite foods to eat at home and when we go out. Which of those foods could be served and eaten outside? Would they need any adaptations? We got quite creative thinking of sustainable containers that could be used. Miss Capron-Tee has heard of a food stall that sells roast meals inside a Yorkshire pudding "wrap"! Wooden spoons and forks are more environmentally friendly than plastic, but some of us were concerned that they can taste a bit strange.

We created a food truck to sell some of our favourite foods and have called it Fast Fancy Foods, selling foods from around the world.

Meanwhile, the people who run the Boathouse Cafe at Arrow Valley Lake are looking for a way to expand their services to provide food for people to eat outdoors. How could they manage this? Some people had heard of an excellent food truck called Fast Fancy Food who served the most delicious food to eat outdoors. Perhaps they should get in touch?

Fast Fancy Foods were sending out posters and flyers advertising their services to new clients...

The Boathouse Cafe contacted a member of Fast Fancy Foods to ask if they would be interested in the job - after a brief discussion with the team, it was agreed. But where would be the best location for the food truck to park and sell food? We looked on Digimaps and identified locations that looked promising, then we actually visited the lake to check out the locations. We had a list of criteria that the sites needed to meet.

Back at school, we discussed what we had seen at each location and picked which spot looked the best for us, explaining why we thought it would be the best.

At the same time, we have been thinking about what happens to food when we eat it. How is food digested? What parts of the body are involved in digestion? We had some ideas, but we have learned about how food starts to be broken down in the mouth by the teeth and saliva, travels down the oesophagus to the stomach where is is churned up and broken down more by acids and enzymes so that when it is released into the small intestines, nutrients can be absorbed. By the time it reaches the large intestine, any remaining useful water is absorbed until the waste ends up being stored before we can get rid of it down the toilet!

The Boathouse Cafe asked if we could serve pizzas in our Food Truck, so we began to investigate so we could provide the best pizzas possible. We thought about our favourite pizzas, and key things a pizza needs (a base, tomato sauce and cheese). We had a go at making a basic pizza to check this - this was very tasty!

What base would be the best? We tried 5 different bread products to decide what we would use for our own pizzas (bread, wrap, roll, pitta and bagel) and then set about making our designs. We had to consider the costs - keep the cost of making the pizzas as low as possible so that we wouldn't have to charge too much for them, but still make a profit.

Finally it was time to make and test our designs - it's safe to say we all approved of our designs!

Now we had sorted what we would be serving in our Food Truck, we started to think about how we could make it accessible to everyone, including tourists who might not speak English and young children who can't read a menu. Perhaps we could display models of our pizzas so people could see what they would look like without having to read a menu? We learned how to join clay together using scoring and slip, and how to consider shape, texture and colour to make things look realistic. 

Our Food Truck will soon be ready to open. We need to have a bit of a celebration to mark the opening, which means celebratory music. In Brazil, they have a big celebration every year called Carnival, and they use Samba music. This would be perfect for our Food Truck opening celebration, so we created our own Samba music, using syncopated Samba rhythms, which will be perfect to party to!