Lord’s Kitchen Burger Sale – Chefs of the Week (Ruaidhri and James)
Well done to Ruaidhri and James from the Lord’s Kitchen Elements class who planned and organuised their own pop up burger sale today. The had previously costed the ingredients, worked out their break even point and done the marketing to promote the sale. They sold all 40 burgers for $30 each, within 10mins and easily could have sold more. Very good considering they needed to sell 30 to break even. Looking forward to their next pop up venture on Monday 11th June to kick off Healthy Eating Week
Y13 BTEC Pop Up Restaurant – Niam
On Tuesday 24th April the Y13 BTEC Hospitality students opened their pop up restaurant for one night only, which they called Niam! This was for their final unit where they have to plan, organised and run a catered vent. they decided to open an East meets West fusion restaurant to celebrate Island School moving to Sha Tin Wai. All the menu incorporated European syles with local Asian ingredients. There was a total of 63 paying guest at the evening and the feedback from them was superb. The Y12 Hospitality student were the waiting staff for the event, which they counts towards their customer service unit. all the students should be extreme;y proud of themselves for pulling off such a high quality fine dining event. Many thanks to everyone who came and supported the event, it was great to have so many people there.
Y12 students finish running the Y7 Healthy Cooking Club
many thanks to Chloe, Viva, Jennifer and Richard, who have been running a healthy cooking club after school on Mondays for year 7 students. They started by watch Mr Lord demonstrate to the students and then they helped the y7’s but the soon took over from doing the demonstrations. they all said they loved doing this as part of their CAS and has been a great confidence boost, working with and demonstrating to the younger children and Chloe even said i has made her consider teaching as a career now.
ESF Island School Final Senior Winner – Jennifer Frawley
In Friday 20th April, the three senior finalist competed in the Island School final. The had the brief of Modernized street food, which gave them a wide scope to be creative and take inspiration from different cuisines. The students had two hour to produce a main course and dessert and they were being judged on the creativity, skills, presentation and taste of the dishes.
In Third place was Natalie Wong (12F), who made a Mexican inspired menu of a deconstructed pork taco and carnal flan.
Second was Natasha Wang (12W), who made a Won ton and Noodle Main course and the then a Fortune cookie croque en bouch with creamy mousse,
This year winner was Jennifer Frawley (12F), who made Fish made with a batter flavoured with hot cheetos, chips and curry sauce and then a Filipino dessert of a fruit filled spring roll with Banana ice cream. She will now be representing the school at the vESF final on 25th May at South Island School.
Many thanks to the judges, Mrv Loggie, Mr Roper, Mr Pawlyn, Ms Law and Ethan Li and to the PTA, who donated the prizes of a selection of kitchen utensils
IS ESF CHEF Semi final Senior Winner – Jennifer Frawley
In this Semi final of the Island School Senior section of the ESF Chef competition,the the competitors were give the brief to use a fruit in three different ways to create a dessert. The standard o skills and level of creativity was probably the best ever at this stage of the competition., with some students even putting their food science knowledge to the test with molecular gastronomy techniques. The Judges (Mr Reed, Ms Chan, Ms Law and Mrs Craig, visiting from West Island),were blown away with the presentation and then found it really hard to decide on the winner and who was going through to the IS final. In the end it was three way tie for Second place, with
Natalie Wong who made Strawberry cheesecake, strawberry sponge and strawberry spheres.
Natasha Wang, for her mango zero gravity creation
and Natalie Leung with her deconstructed Mango Passion fruit cheesecake
Jennifer was a clear winner though , with her Raspberry cheesecake, with Raspberry Coulis and Sorbet\
Island School Chef (junior) Winners
The first round of IS junior Masterchef kicked off on Friday, 2nd February. Twelve teams of talented year nine students turned up at Tai Wai site to represent their house. The atmosphere was tense as everyone walked in nervously to chose their mystery ingredients for this creative challenge. With choices of ingredients made, the young cooks set off to plan and cook their creative dishes, in 1 hour and 15 minutes. The final dishes were impressive and the judges had a tough time choosing the best six to put through to the next round. In the end two teams tied in 6th Place. Da Vinci’s Andrea Cheung and Yu Kisa took first place with their impressive Soya Sauce and Honey Pan-Fried salmon .
Yorkshire Food and Culture Querst week video
Enjoy some the highlights from the recent trip Island School trip to Yorkshire
Island School visits Yorkshire in Quest Week
During this years Quest Week, 21 students traveled to Yorkshire to experience the food and culture. The trip involved a great mix of activities. that gave them in insight into the history of the area and gave them the chance to indulge in the local cuisine. The cultural experiences included; the Jorvik Viking Museum, Eden Camp 2nd World War Museum, York Dungeons, The National railway museum, Whitby abbey, where Dracula was set and hiking on North York Moors. The foodie activities included visiting many restaurants and meeting the chefs, cooking at Malton cookery school, cheese tasting at Shepherds Purse Creamery, visiting a diary farm and petting 2 week old calves and learning about York’s chocolate heritage. The students had a fantastic time and loved the week away in Gods own country.
Y13 BTEC Hospitality students cook the school lunches
Well done to all the Y13 BTEC Hospitality students, who today prepared,m cooked and served their own meals to serve to students and staff in the main at lunch. They have working in small teams for the last few weeks, to plan their meals and make sure it met all nutritional guidelines and fit in with the budgeting constraints of a school meal, as well ensuring it could all be cooking in time. All meals were sold for $25 and they served over 150 people in 30 mins, which is a great achievements. Here is the menu that students and staff had to choose from.
Shredded Roasted Jerk Chicken with Rice and beans and stir fried vegetables
or
Filipino Seafood or Vegetable Noodle Stir fry with fresh spring roll
or
Beef and Vegetable Quesadilla with Coleslaw
The feedback was all extremely positive and the student worked extremely hard to ensure the quality was the best it could be and that everyone world be happy with the food they were served. Thanks to all the students involved and to everyone that came and supported the event
Y8 Life skills (Healthy Eating) – Einstein Winners/Star Bakers Arthur, Olivia and Alvina
Well doen to Arthur, Olivia and Alvina from 8E, who won the first of the Healthy Eating Life skills Cereal product design task. All Y8 Einstein students had to design and m,make their own healthy cereal bar/bite product or granola, in small groups. Some were healthier than others, some held their shape better and some tasted better, but the winners managed to get the balance between all three aspects just right, with their dried fruit and cashew rice crispy bites
