Bakers of the Week Gallery

Sweet Indulgence – Positive Pastries

This week in sweet Indulgence, the studenst worked in 4 teams in a large scale production challenge to make a batch of tarts or pastry products to sell to teachers and students, to raise money for the Mural club to buy paints to jazz up school environment. There was a selection of large and small  bakewell, treacle and coconut tarts and apple galettes and the sales raised $800 to put towards paint for the Mural club.

BTEC work experience catering at at the Alliance event

Well done to Ernest, Kirsten, Kisha and Hitesh, who helped the chef and serving satff at Club Lusatino, in Central yesterday, at the Islnad School Alliance event last night. They really impressed the chefs with their professionalism.

Just Chilling – Star bakers (Halle, Barbie Emilie)

Sweet indulgence today were making chilled desserts and we ahd huger variety of panna cotta’s and cheesecakes. This was a challenge of presentation and styling and the Halle, Barbie Emilie were awarded Star baker for being the creative and innovative with their designs.

Ex-food students visit the Elements and BTEC lessons

Today was a great day in the food department as 4 members of the Island School Alumni, decided to come and visit. Claudia Lau, who left last year, came to demonstrate her favourite cookie recipes to the Sweet Indulgence Elements class, seeing as it was biscuits week Nitin Hranandani (class of 2015) and Natalie Chan (class of 2014), showed off their culinary skills they developed whilst at university and on work placemnt at 3 Michelin starred restaurants. They were joined by Alvin Koo (class of 2015),  who visited the new Y12 BTEC Hospitality class and will be returning next week to speak to the Y13 Hospitality students, about his role as an event manager, whilst on work placement in New York.     

Sweet Indulgence week 1 – Confectionary (Star bakers, Nihaal, Yash, Farhaan and Kingsley)

In the 1st lesson of Sweet Indulgence Elements this terms, the students were put in small teams and were told they were goinbg to develop products for their theoretical  bakery/cake shop. they will be designing logo’s, website, instagram pages, promo videos and much more, over the next term and bit. In this week students were given a recipe to make a confectionery product and then also made a chocolate, that could be sold on the counter in their bakery.  Well done to Nihaal, Yash, Farhaan and Kingsley , who more perfect honeycomb/cinder toffee and shiny filled chocolates.