Sponge cake Stra baker – Andrea, Valerie, Elizabeth and Charlotte
Sweet indulgence sponge cake week gives a l ot of scope to try out different ideas after students learn about the function of the cake making basic ingredients. The winners stepped up the creativity with Valerie, Elizabeth and Charlotte collaborating to make a superb greedy unicorn cake. Also Andrea ws awarded the accolade for her unique take on a marbled chocolate and banana loaf cake, which was a absolute delicious.
IS ESF Chef Final 2019
This year the final of the IS ESF Chef final was probably the most challenging brief yet, with the students been tasked to make a plant based main and dessert in 1hour 45mins. The atmosphere was friendly but tense as the students worked there way through the different techniques in making their dishes and getting them presented for the judges, but it got much more frantic as the timer ran down. This year we had the following judges The Chef and Manager from POP Vegan restaurant in Elgin Street, Alvin from Magic season Organics, Mr Loggie and Jennifer Frawley (last year senior winner and Viva Sheth (Vegan IB Food Science student), so a great range of experts and food enthusiasts.
Food careers
Great website, if you are interested in a career in the food industry
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ESF Chef Final
Last Friday saw the annual finale of the ESF Chef competition, where all the winners from all the ESF schools come together to compete for the title. This year the competitors were given the brief to “Plan, prepare and make a technically challenging, 2 course meal (main course & dessert) that reflects the theme “sustain” and would be suitable to serve at a new, International style HK restaurant that wishes to showcase locally sourced ingredients.”
Representing Island school in the juniors, were Andrea and Yu, who worked together to make their two course meal of free range chicken with homemade pesto and tomatoes and Chocolate fondant with mint chocolate ice cream.
The students collaborated really well together , but were beaten by two boys from West island.
Jennifer represented Island school in the Seniors, after winning every round of the island school heats. She decided to make her take on a Vegan Edible Garden and Chocolate and cherry dessert, served ina white chocolate dome coloured blue and green to represent the earth. Both dishes showed fantastic creativity and presentation and was a rerally interesting interpretation of the brief
I was a really close competition and the judges deliberated for a long time, but the Senior winner was Summ,er from Discovery College, who made a belly pork dish and poached pear with chilli chocolate sauce
many thanks to Magic Season Organics that donated a lot of the vegetables that students used. This is a an organic vegetable box delivery company recently set up in Hong Kong by ex-Island school students. You can find out more about their company here https://magicseasonorganics.com/pages/our-story
Alos a big thank you to Island School PTA and Masterful Ltd, who arranged the prizes.
Island School Chef (junior) Winners
The first round of IS junior Masterchef kicked off on Friday, 2nd February. Twelve teams of talented year nine students turned up at Tai Wai site to represent their house. The atmosphere was tense as everyone walked in nervously to chose their mystery ingredients for this creative challenge. With choices of ingredients made, the young cooks set off to plan and cook their creative dishes, in 1 hour and 15 minutes. The final dishes were impressive and the judges had a tough time choosing the best six to put through to the next round. In the end two teams tied in 6th Place. Da Vinci’s Andrea Cheung and Yu Kisa took first place with their impressive Soya Sauce and Honey Pan-Fried salmon .
Some Great Year 9 Lamps
Here are just a few of the fabulous lamps that were created in year 9 in my classes. I was really impressed with the students commitment towards the end of the year as we pushed on through lunches to finish off the work. Well done to all that finished their work!
Y9 Cake Decorating Competition 2017.
The annual Island SWchool Y9 Cake Decorating Competition has just finished and it is now time for you to help us decide on the winner.
Students made their cakes one week and the following week they were given 45mins to do their decorating. They were give the choice of themes, either “Celebration” (to fit in with the school’s 50th anniversary) or “Summer”
We picked the best 3 from each class and then decided on the best 5 overall to go through to this final voting stage. The winner will be awarded with a hamper of baking utensils the final assembly
Please choose your favourite, however voting cannot be done on the IS network, so you will have to use your phone if you are in school
Lovin’ this!!
Love what Liam is developing here for his mood light!! Great stuff!! Just goes to show how a simple idea can have a dramatic effect!
Great commitment to design!!
Want to share this photo of John who came into the lesson today with a box full of components he has brought in for his lamp. This sort of commitment to the design process and his outcome is the sort of thing that makes projects happen. It is such a great thing to see and I hope he inspires others by this to engage as fully with their projects. Well done John!!
Designers of the Week
What’s a pleasure it was to come back to this group of individuals after soanynweeks away. What was fabulous to return to was an amazing level of engagement with their projects. All the students had either brought something in or had undertaken further independent research and really pushed their design thinking forward. So this week I would like to celebrate this whole class! Nice job everyone and keep it up!!
