FLG does Jamaican
Today was dedicated to Jamaican cooking and Jamaican food. Miss Newby, gave a talk about her Jamaican heritage and some of her favourite cooking tips. She also worked with some students to make jerk chicken, barbecue wings and the famous Jamaican patties. Other groups made their own twist of johnny cakes, creole salad, salsa and rice and peas. The food was lovely but left a few people disappointed because it disappeared too quickly.
French in Food
Today we had a cross Curricular experience with a Y8 french class coming over to Food Tech to make crepes, with instructions being given in French.
Pupils did very well and and Mrs Marmagne was showing off.
Bon Appetite’
Y12 IB Food – Work Experience
Well done to all the Y12 IB Design Tech/Food students who over the last three weeks have all spent a day’s work experience with Chartwell’s helping to prepare and serve the school lunches. they have all been excellent and have received a lot of praise from the staff at Chartwell’s and they have said how much the opportunity. Thank you to everyone at Chartwell’s for making this happen
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
Applied Learning Celebration Catering
At the applied learning celebration evening, the food department was asked to serve some nibbles. This seemed like the ideal opportunity to start planning for the introduction of BTEC Hospitality next year, by getting the students that have opted for this new subject together to do this . I was very impressed with both the creativity in designing the canapes and the collaboration and team work of the students and am very much looking forward to teaching this class next year.
Yellow Food Sale – Wilberforce Charity week
Well done the students in 10 and 7 Wilberforce who made and sold the Macaroni Cheese, Pizza’s and Smoothies for the yellow Food stall. Feeedback was great from the peopl,e who bought it and you raised $1150 for charity.
Lords Kitchen/IB (Food) trip Icon Hotel
Today we finished our Lord’s kitchen course with a trip ICON hotel, with the Y12 IB food students coming along to help them with their research for their Kitchen design project.
The trip consisted of a tour of all kitchens in the hotel, including the huge banquet kitchen, the chinese kitchen, butchery and seafood prep kitchen and the western kitchen as well as the delivery/checking and storage areas. The tour culminate in demonstration in the pastry kitchen by chef Danny and then buffet lunch at the Market Garden restaurant. Pupils loved seeing behind the scenes at this massive establishment and enjoyed getting involved in the pastry kitchen and sampling all the different styles of cuisines available for lunch.
Sweet Indulgence Recipe book practical
In this penultimate week of the course. Pupils made their chosen dish for the recipe book that is going to be published and sold. A lot of thought and planning had gone into the food styling and the photo’s look great. Everyone was of a very high standard and it was great to hear pupils comments about how proud they were of themselves and each other.
Thanks also to the photography elements students who helped with the shots.
AYP Physical Skill – Cooking
A small group of students who do not do the Food course at Island school have been keen to develop their culinary skills and have decided to do cookery for the physical skill aspect of their AYP. This means them cooking at home once a week and keeping records/photo’s of what they have made and also cooking in front of Mr lord to see how well they work. Below you can see some of the students and their dishes. The students will do this again in a few months so we can see how they have improved and developed .
Bakers of the Week – All the Y7/8 cooking club
This week the bakers of the week were the Y7/8 cooking club who made all the mince pies for the staff party. Thanks for your help, they look great
