Lords Kitchen/IB (Food) trip Icon Hotel
Today we finished our Lord’s kitchen course with a trip ICON hotel, with the Y12 IB food students coming along to help them with their research for their Kitchen design project.
The trip consisted of a tour of all kitchens in the hotel, including the huge banquet kitchen, the chinese kitchen, butchery and seafood prep kitchen and the western kitchen as well as the delivery/checking and storage areas. The tour culminate in demonstration in the pastry kitchen by chef Danny and then buffet lunch at the Market Garden restaurant. Pupils loved seeing behind the scenes at this massive establishment and enjoyed getting involved in the pastry kitchen and sampling all the different styles of cuisines available for lunch.
HE Fare Catering
Big thank-you and well done to the Y10 GCSE Food Tech students and Y12 IB Food students who prepared all the food for the presenters after the Higher education Fare.
The Y10 students were in charge of sandwiches and they initially all designed their own, using different types of bread filling and we decided on the best 5. We then turned this into a production line activity to show how to mass produce. There were 5 groups and each group had to make 80 sandwiches. One group even made their own dough and flat breads.
Sandwich menu
Mexican Chicken and Guacamole Wrap
Phili Cheese Steak cocktail bun
Bacon Club sandwich
Tuna Mayo sandwich
Roast Vegetable flatbread
The Y12 students came up with lots of ideas for sweet and savoury snacks/canapes and then we discussed the feasibility of each on before deciding the 9 which made up a nice balanced menu which was challenging, but manageable.
Savoury Snacks
Deviled Eggs Puffs
Vegetable Samosa’s
Smoked Salmon Mini Quiche
Cheese Straws and dips
Chicken and Mushroom pies
Hoi Sin Duck Spoons
Sweet Snacks
Scones with jam and cream
Mini Cupcakes
Macarons
Everything turned out fantastic and the pupils who stayed to help serve received lots of compliments
Hot off the (3D printing) press
Thomas Tobins 3D solid model of a sleek racing car is realised on the 3D printer, taking more than 24 hours to produce.
Y12 DT/Food Chocolate project
This week saw the culmination of the Y12 chocolate design project, where pupils sold there products at the winter fare. Pupils and been working groups mixed with both Food and DT students and had design and branded their own chocolates, by 3d printing the shapes, vacuum forming the molds and then tempering the chocolate and packaging the finished products.
The product all sold out very quickly and we could ahve sold alot more with more time to make them.
After all ingredients, material and the stall rents have been deducted the profits were donated to Masarang foundation. Below is the amounts each team made.
Guilty Pleasures – $541
CATCH – $559
Chocolate factory – 245
This make CATCH the winner!
Well done to all groups, as they all worked extremely well together and made high quality products. We will definitely be running this project again next year.
Group 4 IB – Science/DT/FT Exhibition
In our 1st week back after the summer break the Y13 pupils were divided into 16 groups, each with 9 pupils in. Each group was then given a myth busting brief to work on for two days, to maximise teamwork and the range of talents in the group throughout the different sciences and DT subjects. This culminated in the groups presenting at their display stands in the expo, which had people walking on custard, sampling fudge, ice cream and pineapple jam, videos of exploding coke bottles. The winning group was able to explain the best way to keep the fizz in your champagne (very handy)!
A very impressive and creative start to the new term.
Y13 Graduation Canapes
As part of the Y12 IB design Technology (food) course students were given a coursework task to plan, design and make 200 canapes each fro the Y13 Graduation .
Pupils did an amazing job and made perfectly uniform and was thoug hout canoes
1. Butternut squash and feta crostini
2. Pesto and balsamic tomato puff
3. Steak and salsa Tostada
4 Prawn and Avocado Wasabi Rice cakes
5. Mini Banoffe Pies
They all went down a storm and got fantastic feedback from staff, parents and pupils.
It was great to have such an authentic experience for the pupils to work on.
