BTEC Starters, judged by Hyatt Chef and Manager
Today the heat was on in the kitchen for the Y12 BTEC hospitality students. The students are in 4 teams and each have designed their own Asian themed restaurant. Today they were making their starters, one of which was meat based, one, seafood and one vegetarian. The aim is to decide which dishes make it onto the final menu for their charity pop up fine dining restuarnat in April, so we invited the head chef and manager of the Hyatt in Sha tin to come and judge alongside Mr Wilkinson and Mr Pawlyn who also teach the hospitality and business BTEC classes.
The standrd of food was very high and studenst plating up some lovely dishes making it very hard to decide, but eventually we decide that going through o the final menu, are the following dishes that guest wll have to coose from.
Kimchi Pancakes,
Mulligatawny soup
Thai Shrimp cakes
California sushi rolls
Many thanks to Mr Wilson Lee and Mr Hongman Cheung, from the Hyatt, for giving up their time to come in and judge the studenst cooking and give them great feedback
Food careers
Great website, if you are interested in a career in the food industry
https://tastycareers.org.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0h5zxBoW7U7wDWAP64LTBYFiY6LVHaoEZSgc8p6Cp0lgT7JQro4pLeEVY
BTEC Community afternoon Tea
A massive congratulations to all the BTEC hospitality and in particular the Y13 students who plan, and managed the entire Afternoon Tea event. The students developed the idea to invite senior citizens from the local community, after some teachers ahd gone on a community walk and met some of the people. the students worked with Raymond Li, the Tai Wai councilor as a client to come up with event proposals and then designed the menu accordingly to ensure theire a good mix of asiain and western flavors. The Y13’s were responsible for the all the sweet products and the Y12 students made all the savourty items.
there were 40 senior citizens and 30 teachers at the event and the food, service and entertainment were all absolutely amazing. All the senior citizens were so appreciative of the thought and effort that had gone into making them feel welcome and it really helped to make Island school feel more part of the local community.
Well done to all involved and thanks to everyone that attended.
BTEC Lunch at the Hyatt Sha Tin
many thanks to Wilson Lee IS parent and Manager of the Hyatt Sha Tin, for arranging a special lunch for the Y12 BTEC hospitality students. The students are researching fine dining menus in preparation for a gala dinner for the NMKM trust that they will planning and running in April and the team at Hyatt designed a special lunch menu for the students to have and then they are writing a review of the meal to help them prepare for their event and start designing their own menus.
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.
Afternoon Delight
Yesterday the Y13 BTEC students were rewarded for their excellent dessert buffet, that they produced at the staff CPD day. They were taken to Hyatt in Sha Tin, where they had the afternoon tea set, so they could research and analysis thew quality of the food on offer and get ideas for their next event, which will be an afternoon tea for the local community, in December.
Food Life skills – Y8 food film project
In Lower school, the Food Tech departemntr has taken a interdisciplinary approach to the teaching and has developed a new life skills couse, that links with different curoculum areas. This first projrect looked a food s\yling and how to make cooking videos, with Ms Word coming in to teach the basics of starting to make a food film.
Below are two video made and edittedby Leia in 8D, which are excellent and a huge achievements in 3 lessons
Here is the link to Hitesh’s new YouTube channel, where he has made different cooking videos for student going to University. This is part of his Extended BTEC project, where he has incorporated his two passions of film and food.
Y12/13 Food students take over the school catering for CPD day
A massive congratulations to all Y12/13 students, studying food related courses, who made all the food for the staff CPD day on 5th September. All the food was made using fresh ingredients/no processed foods and all the vegetables were supplied from Magic Season Organics.
The Y13 IB food Science students made the breakfast and break time healthy snack and drinks, including Quesadilla, Foccaccia and Hummus, banana muffins, frozen yoghurt and fruit salad and iced tea and milk tea.
The new Y12 Hospitality student were in charge of the roast pork carvery, with roast potato and Yorkshire pudding and poached salmon /salad bar. they were amazing, considering some of them had not cooked in the food room before
The Y13 BTEC hospitality students were working in 3 groups of 4 students and each had been developing their own dessert to serve and they had to make 40 portions. One group made Japenese Lemon cheesecake, with brunt lemon and cream, another made mango and Dragon-fruit Bavious and the final groups made peach Cheesecake. All of these dishes were presented to an exceptional standard and were of amazing quality
In total 120 people served asnd the feedback was unbelieveable, with some staff saying it was the best meal they had ever had at school.
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.
BTEC East meets West fine dining meal
see the video.
Many thanks to Mae Sapo for editing and the Y12 BTEC film students for getting all the footage
