Christie Chong wins Cupcake Wars!
Week 6 of Sweet Indulgence and its time for Cupcake Wars again. Students were asked to be creative and use prior learning to design their own cupcake and the standard was high, but Christie was deemed the best as she challenged herself with intricate sugar work that she learnt in week 1.
GCSE Engineers catapult their way to victory!
Y10 Engineers were tasked with designing and building catapults to throw a table tennis ball the furthest. Some great designs from Mr Parker’s class, but Mr York’s class trumped the competition by a long shot, with Jay Han’s design throwing an impressive 8.6 metres!
ESF Masterchef Final
Well done to the Island school students who competed at the ESF Masteerchef Final At Sha Tin College and each came third in their respective categories withe the challenging brief of Veg is Edgey, fruit is funk – a main course and desert for a vegetarian in 1 our 45mins. Kaela Mei Townson in the Seniors made raw, vegan zucchini lasagna with basil pesto and macadamia cheese followed by a raw/vegan chocolate and avocado mousse
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Chiara Dadamo and Avantika Malhotra working together in the Juniors made Pineapple curry with rice and Avocado chocolate mousse with sweet potato truffles
It was a very tight competition and the judges (ESF Exectutive Officer Belinda Gree, Operation Manager from the HK Culinary Academy, Tony Magnetic the marketing manager for Maximal Concepts and Gregoire Michaud the chef proprietor of Bread Elements) found it very difficult to decide on the overall winners and their was only a point between 1st and 3rd in the senior competition. But well done to The students from Sha Tin College, who for the second year running won both sections.
You can see from the photos below all the food looked delicious
More photos taken by the professionals her
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Many thanks to the sponsors Maximal Concepts who donated meal vouchers for Fish and Meat, Blue Butcher and Brickhouse, Chefworks who donated bespoke embroiled aprons and chef jackets and the Island School PTA who made up the kitchen utensil hampers
Lord’s Kitchen – Deconstructed dessert
In this weeks Lord’s Kitchen lesson, pupils were given the creative challenge to design plan and make their own deconstructed version of their favorite dessert.
Below you can vote for the one you think looked best/most artistic/creative below
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- Apple pie
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- Tiramisu
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- Banana Coconut cream pie
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- Tarte’ aux Fruit
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- Lemon Meringue Pie 1
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- Lemon Meringue Pie 2
Designers of the week – “Pointing” in the right direction…
Ann and Anna (Y10) of the 3D Product Design Elements class took on a nautical theme this week in the “Speed Innovation Challenge”. Students were tasked with designing an making an innovative product from a set list of materials, with only 3 hours to brainstorm, design, develop and manufacture!
All outcomes were impressive given the time and resource restrictions, with two designers, Ann He (10E) and Anna Choi (10W), sailing away with the most intricate design. They produced an ornamental, nautical compass from only two of their available resources (sustainable minds?) and applied some advanced metalworking skills (on the metal working lathe) to engineer precise fittings for their compass.
Each pair will be applying their best sales tactics to try and persuade the remainder of the class to invest in their product, based on their competitive marketing strategies. Will it be sink or swim for the designers of the week? Find out next week!
Island School Masterchef Final
On Friday night the Masterchef finals took place at the Spring Cultural fare, with the 4 senior competitors reaching the final and 4 pairs in the Junior section.
The Seniors had an hour and a half to put their “Taste of Asia” on plate and the Juniors had one hour 12 mins to produce their “Taste of Italy”.
The standard of food produced very high and most competitors were extremely well organised, which gave the judges a really hard job. The judges were Simon Hill the manager from HK Culinary Academy and last years star graduate Geraldine and Mr Binge (headteacher) and his wife and they were not only looking at the finished dishes, but also the creativity and working practices.
After much deliberation the results were announced and it was very close between thetop two in both categories, but there can only be one winner .
In the Junior section this was Avantika Malhotra and Chiara Dadamo from 9W, for their Italian Flag on a plate, made up of Two types of homemade pasta, with pesto and ragu, risotto ball, bruchetta and ricotta and coconut dessert.
Really well done also to Ottavia De Rosa and Lucy Acheson, who came clse in 2nd place
Winning the senior was Kaela- Mei Townson (10W), who made an appetiser of Asain Seafood, which stunned teh judges in terms of presentation and flavour.
Specail mention to Katherine Nye who came close in 2nd place with her classic Thai dishes
Well done to all the other competitors, you food was very good though and i hope you enter next year.
Masterchef Promo video –
The film studies students produced this video to promote the school Masterchef competition. Many thanks to Ms Reid and her students for organizing
Masterchef semi-final Juniors
At Lunch today the remaining 6 pairs of Y7-9 students battles it out to get one of the 4 places in the grand final. The brief was a creative dessert and tension was high as pupils got under way.
The standard of final dishes was superb and it wa very close for runner up places but Lucy Acheson and Ottavia De Rosa were run away winners, with their very creative 4 season dessert, making the chefs of the week.
Well done to the 3 runners up, where it was very close , but also in final at the Spring Fare is Jorja Townson and Charlotte Wong, Chiara Dadamo and Avantika Malhotra and Megan Lam & Chiara Postacchini.
Junior Masterchef Round 1 – Creative with rice
Well done to all the competitors who enter the Masterchef competition and represented their house. Each house could enter 2 pairs in the competition and the competitors were given the simple brief of creative with Rice This gave us a real range of dishes from Mango Sticky Rice with chocolate sauce to Risotto balls., and butter chicken to chocolate rice pudding. As You can see the food looked amazing!
AWell done to the following students who got through to the next round.
In Joint 1st Place Ottavia De Roas and Lucy Acheson form Rutherford and Chiara Dadamo and Avantika Malhotra from WQilberforce, they are this weeks Chef’s of the Week
In Third Place also from Wilberforce was Jorja Townsono and Charlotte Wong
Making up the last 3 places is school sheats was Megan Lam & Chiara Postacchini from Einstein, Koki Takamatsu and Riya Zaveri from Nansen and finally Libby Moser and Nicole So from Rutherford. Well done to all the competitors though . It was very close
