Y12 BTEC Hospitality @ POP Vegan
As part of Gealthy Eating week, the Y12 BTEC Hospitality students visited POP Vegan on Elgin St, for a 5 course meal of different European dishes, so they could n start their next research project on European Foods. The food was interesting and a great take on some classic dishes from around Europe, beautifully presented and with some interesting innovative flavours and ingredients. It made a lovely change to eat solely plant based food and it was great to see how this style of food has been made so contemporary. thanks to everyone at POP vegan for putting a special menu and for the great service.
Here is the menu that we enjoyed.
Cauliflower cake – France
Fig salad – Greece
Beetroot soup – Poland
Fregula – Italy (Sardinia)
Apple crumble – England
Healthy Eating Week – Fruit Salad and Smoothies
As part of Healthy Eating Week one of the challenges is eating 5 a day, so support this the Y7 A-team class prepared lots of fruit salads and smoothies to sell. They did a fantastic job and loved eating the fruit as reward for their hard work
Lords Kitchen Impossible Challenge
Healthy Eating Week was kicked off with the Lords Kitchen class taking on the Impossible challenge. Last week the class was split into teams and given the challenge to design a dish using impossible meat to serve to staff at lunch today, with the aim of making them want to convert to the plant based alternative rather than minced beef. The Boys team went for Spicy Koftas and salad and the girls Quesadillas,, the staff tried both and had to vote for which they would like again in the future. It was very close between the two dishes, but the quesadillas just pipped it by one vote. The huge take away from the challenge was how many people said “I can’t believe it is not meat” and “I will definitely be choosing Impossible in the future.”
Fleming win the Y7/8 STEM week food challenge
Well done to the students from Fleming, who won the STEM week food challenge making flaring islands. Each house had two y7 and two y8 students and they had to collaborate to make Creme anglaise and steamed meringue to show the aeration snd coagulation of eggs.
A-team Salad project winners
Well done to the student below who won the salad project for the A-team in Y7, with them all having different job roles to creat their new packaged salad idea.
Chef #1-Kylee
Chef #2-Jonah
Packaging- Haley
Marketing -Tayten
Nutritionist- Nathan
Manager-Nicolas
Cupcake Wars Winners – Charlie and Diya
Sweet Indulgence had a fruity theme for the cupcake wars lesson this semester and there were some very profession ally decorated products on display. Though the Y12 student judges decided they were most likely to choose Charlie and Diya’s cupcake, if they saw them in a shop, so they were awarded Star baker this week
7F Salad project winners – Seasons Salads
Well done to all the team members from the Seasons salad company, who won the best business idea and product from 7F. Their summer salad concepot was both delicious and healthy, as well as having brilliant branding, packaging and marketing materials, including a really nice promo video
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.
Community Cooking with students from NYSS
Yesterday after school Hannah and Ida arranged a Mexican celebration feast as a community event to bring together island school and students from the neighboring NYSS. They decided on a Mexican celebration feast as it has recently been the Cinco de Mayo festival and they decided it is important to bring people together and recognize other cultures.
The students were put into small groups and each had a different aspect of the feast to make, there was pork fajita, salsa, guacamole, nachos and cheese sauce. It was a really lovely experience giving these students opportunity to use the amazing food facilities at Island school and they really appreciated it and loved the food.
8R Salad project Winners – Lewi, Howard, Sophie Chi Hoe, Austin Deevesh Bo Yun
Well done to to Lewi, Howard, Sophie Chi Hoe, Austin Deevesh Bo Yun from 8R, who won the the salad business project today. T^heir company designed a rainbow fruit salad and branded it as “The way of Life’ Salad company, had the nutrition analysis, marketing and packaging.
