IB food students visit bread elemnets Bakery
Many thanks to Gregoire at Bread Elements for the amazing tour of the factory and the amazing pastries. The IB food Science students loved learning about the science of bread and croissant making and how this is doen on a large scale using commercial machinery
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.
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.
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.
ESF Chef Final
Last Friday saw the annual finale of the ESF Chef competition, where all the winners from all the ESF schools come together to compete for the title. This year the competitors were given the brief to “Plan, prepare and make a technically challenging, 2 course meal (main course & dessert) that reflects the theme “sustain” and would be suitable to serve at a new, International style HK restaurant that wishes to showcase locally sourced ingredients.”
Representing Island school in the juniors, were Andrea and Yu, who worked together to make their two course meal of free range chicken with homemade pesto and tomatoes and Chocolate fondant with mint chocolate ice cream.
The students collaborated really well together , but were beaten by two boys from West island.
Jennifer represented Island school in the Seniors, after winning every round of the island school heats. She decided to make her take on a Vegan Edible Garden and Chocolate and cherry dessert, served ina white chocolate dome coloured blue and green to represent the earth. Both dishes showed fantastic creativity and presentation and was a rerally interesting interpretation of the brief
I was a really close competition and the judges deliberated for a long time, but the Senior winner was Summ,er from Discovery College, who made a belly pork dish and poached pear with chilli chocolate sauce
many thanks to Magic Season Organics that donated a lot of the vegetables that students used. This is a an organic vegetable box delivery company recently set up in Hong Kong by ex-Island school students. You can find out more about their company here https://magicseasonorganics.com/pages/our-story
Alos a big thank you to Island School PTA and Masterful Ltd, who arranged the prizes.
