ESF Chef 2020 – Seniors 1st round
IB Food Science IA day
Well done to the Y12 IB Food Science students who spend the doping investigations in different food and conducting sensory analysis on products. They were looking at different milks and and made rice pudding, Different oils when making mayonnaise, sugar on making cakes and different meats and plant based meats in meatballs. The found the experience really interesting and enjoyable to run and liked the fact they had to get their friends to do the sensory testing
Community Cooking with students from NYSS
Yesterday after school Hannah and Ida arranged a Mexican celebration feast as a community event to bring together island school and students from the neighboring NYSS. They decided on a Mexican celebration feast as it has recently been the Cinco de Mayo festival and they decided it is important to bring people together and recognize other cultures.
The students were put into small groups and each had a different aspect of the feast to make, there was pork fajita, salsa, guacamole, nachos and cheese sauce. It was a really lovely experience giving these students opportunity to use the amazing food facilities at Island school and they really appreciated it and loved the food.
ESF Chef Semi Final 2019 – Seniors
The Brief for this years ESF Chef Semi Final 2019 was modernised street food, giving the contestant a vast scope of potential foods they could cook and we got a mix of sweet and savoury from all over the world, corn dogs to faux shark fin soup.
The judges loved the way the students approached the brief and each dish had strengths and weaknesses, but they had to decide on the three finalists for the 3rd April.
In 3rd place was Victoria Van De Pol (N) for her Greek doughnuts
2nd place was Wai Lam Yau (N) for her Lammingtons
and winning again was Charlotte Wong (W) for her Fruit Tacos
Many thanks to Michelle Hughes (Business manager), Doris Chan (trainee food teacher0 and the aMZING y13 BTEC Hospitality students who judged
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
Food careers
Great website, if you are interested in a career in the food industry
https://tastycareers.org.uk/?fbclid=IwAR0h5zxBoW7U7wDWAP64LTBYFiY6LVHaoEZSgc8p6Cp0lgT7JQro4pLeEVY
Magic Seasons Organic students talk
A massive thank you to Alvin Kwong (Class 2007 alumni, Fleming) from Magic Season organic, who came in to give a talk to the Y12 IB Food Science students.
Magic seasons is an organic vegetable box company that delivers a vegetable box full of fresh, organic vegetables to your home, consisting of what ever is in season. They also supply some supermarkets in HK and have just opened their own outlet with a kitchen at PMQ. Find out more about them here https://magicseasonorganics.com/pages/about-our-farm
The students were really engaged during the question and anweer session, which focused on, what is organic farming and hwo this can be diferent in different countries, the logistics of running such a company, the issue of food wate in HK and how we might combat it, sustainable packing and lots more.
Hope fully Alvin we will back in school soon,m as we are keen to link up on some future projects
Island School ESF Cshef competition 1st round (Senior) – Winner Jennifer Frawley (12F)
The ESF chef competition got of to a great start at Island school at Island school on Friday, with 2 competitors from all six houses being put through their culinary paces with a creative challenge. Students took in in turns to pick from either cooking chicken or salmon or hallouni, then had a range of carbohydrates and vegetables to pick from. They then had one hour to create a dish to present to the judges. The standard was extremely high and with only 6 places in second round, so was the tension. After much deliberating the scores were in and Jenifer Frawley wasbnamed the winner with her sweet and sour creation.
The final placings of students going through to the next round were’
Year 12 DT students visit IFI(HK)
The Year 12 IB Design Technology class visited IFI(HK) to investigate the importance of innovation in toy design. Students had the opportunity to test and evaluate a range of toys and robots.
