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.
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.
BTEC East meets West fine dining meal
see the video.
Many thanks to Mae Sapo for editing and the Y12 BTEC film students for getting all the footage
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.
8N Cereal Bar winners – Ethan and Will
Well done to Ethan and Will, who were voted as the Nansen winners of the cereal bar challenge the Healthy eating Life skills lesson. All of 8N tried each of the different groups cereal bar products and rated them on texture and taste. There Krispy-crunch bar was just the right level of sweetness, whilst being firm, but crunchy. Thye will go up against all the the other form winners in the end of year final.
Cereal bar – 8F Winners (Sam, Tia and Olivia)
Well done to Sam, Tia and Olivia who created their Banana Na Na Bites o winner for Fleming in the Healthy eating community time challenge and will go through to the final against all the other form winners.
Thai green Curry with Chef Ris
Today we had a visiting Chef teach students how to make authentic Thai green curry. Students were shown how to make the curry paste from the scratch and them use the paste to make their individual curries using their favourite meat. At the end of the session Chef Ris, with the help of Mr Clarke test/tasted all the curries to find out who had made the most authentic dish. This proved to be a tall order, because everyone had done their best to follow the process, despite the length. In the end, it was unanimously decided that for this week, everyone was a winner.
My Hong Kong
This weeks challenge was to use wet market ingredients, to make a dish which showed individual interpretation of Hong Kong cuisine.
Custard tarts, noddle soup, dumplings, steamed and pineapple buns, siu mai and stir fry are just a few of the fantastic dishes that were produced. But in the end Brianne, Jaimie and Chloe took cooks of the week title for the most authentic char siu, custard tarts and milk tea. Priya and Jordyn were commended for sourcing the best wet market ingredients. 
