Y6’s cook school lunches.
we had the pleasure of having the Y6 students from different feeder schools come into the food department for the last two days and cook their own lunch and cook for other students and teachers. They made pasta with tomato and spinach sauce, fresh green salad and garlic bread. this was a really enjoyable experience and many thanks to Magic Season Organics, who donated all the salad and spinach
Students baking video going viral
Congratulations to Tatjana Foong, whose baking video is going viral with over half a million views, Follow her ypoutube channel The Baking Bomb.
Wraps by Lord’s Kitchen
Well done to all the students in the Lord’s kitchen elements who finished of the course in style, by opening up their Pop up[ restaurant yesterday, Wraps by Lord’s Kitchen.
This gave students an insight into all the considerations needed to think about when opening a food business. After a big brainstorm, they decided to go with Mexican wraps as their theme and split into three teams to make, Chicken Fajita.s Beef Burritos and Vegetarian Tacos. They sold around 75 serving of the food in the 20 minute window that the restauarant was open and they left many customer asking when they were going to do it again.
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.
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.
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.
