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.
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.
Just Chilling – Star bakers (Halle, Barbie Emilie)
Sweet indulgence today were making chilled desserts and we ahd huger variety of panna cotta’s and cheesecakes. This was a challenge of presentation and styling and the Halle, Barbie Emilie were awarded Star baker for being the creative and innovative with their designs.
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.
Sweet Indulgence week 1 – Confectionary (Star bakers, Nihaal, Yash, Farhaan and Kingsley)
In the 1st lesson of Sweet Indulgence Elements this terms, the students were put in small teams and were told they were goinbg to develop products for their theoretical bakery/cake shop. they will be designing logo’s, website, instagram pages, promo videos and much more, over the next term and bit.
In this week students were given a recipe to make a confectionery product and then also made a chocolate, that could be sold on the counter in their bakery. Well done to Nihaal, Yash, Farhaan and Kingsley , who more perfect honeycomb/cinder toffee and shiny filled chocolates.
Y8 Wilberforce cereal bar winners.
It was the year 8 Wilberforce tutor groups turn to take part in the Life Skills cereal bar/bite challenge this week, where students worked in small groups to design and make their own healthy cereal snack product. The winners were lex and Hei Ching, who made cereal bites which they named HEX Balls. Mr Wilkinson and MR Pawlyn were the judges and decided that the HEX ba;l;s had the perfect texture and were were deliciouis without being too sweet.
they will now make this with all of the other tutor groups winning products on Wed 13th June, during Healthy Eating Week.
Choux pastry week – Star bakers Joanne and Priya
Chous pastry week in sweet indulgence always proves one of the biggest challenges for the students to master the process of making the tricky pastry adn then making sure their chosen products achieves the perfect puff. There was a lot of profiteroles and produced , with different fillings and garnishes, and this weeks star bakers were decided upon because of their approach to the task and because they deiced to work independently. Priya made a mini Croque-en-bouche which she garnished with white chocaolate butterflies that she had made at home and Joanne made mouthwatering eclairs which could have been sold a French patisserie
Puff pastry Week – Star Baker Riya Zaveri
Sweet Indulgence this week focused on every baker favourite standard component, Puff pastry. this cgave students the opportunity tpo be creative with croissants, apple roses and danish pastries and much more. Riya was awarded Star baker, for her professionally presented raspberry cream Millle Feuille, which woukld have been a great dessert a French restaurant
Chilled desserts Star Bakers – Ananth, Priya and Jasmine
Well done to Ananth, Priya and Jasmine who won the 1st Star Baker awrd of the new Sweet Indulgence Elements class. They opted to make mint and chilli chocolate mousse with some amazing garnishes. It was really hard to decide this week though as there were some fabulous panna cottas, creme brulees, summer pudding and cheese cakes.
Sweet Indulgence magazine winners – Katarina, Natalie and Catherine
Well done to Katarina, Natalie and Catherine who produced the most professional and magazine to collate all of their groups cakes, pastrieds and desserts from the Sweet Indulgence Elements course. It was obvious that they had combined all their skills and used prior learning form past elements courses, such as Photography and Writers Block. We will now be looking into get their groups magazine published so it can sold at school fare and events.
