Food Lover and Lord’s Kitchen Curries
Many thanks and big well doen to all the Food Lovers Guide and Lord’s Kitchen students who helped make all the curries and accompaniments for the Quiz and Curry night yesterday. The Lord’s Kitchen class made 4 different curries, lamb, fish, chicken and vegetable and the Food lovers made samosas, pakoras, bhaji, naan bread and chapatis. They served over 120 quizzers and the feedback was fantastic.
A big thanks goes out to the students that also came to help and especially to Mwenda and Esther from the Y13 BTEC Hospiality class who came to supervise the service
Garment Construction 1
In this lesson the students are learning how to measure themselves and draft up a pattern for a skirt.
This is all calculated individually and is a valuable skill to acquire
Upcycling club begins!
This year we kick off the Island School Upcycling club! Aiming to tackle the huge waste problem in Hong Kong, this week we’re turning old books into vintage picture frames, and old T-shirts into re-useable “community” shopping bags. Well done folks!
Lord’s Kitchen (week 3 – Meat). Chefs of the week – Agastya, Aika and Onni
In week 3 of Lord’s Kitchen we see how squeamish the students are, by tasking them with jointing a chicken and to be fair, they all took to the job like pros. The all made platters of creamy chicken casserole from the breast, breaded baked thighs and drumsticks and deep fried sweet chili chicken wings. It was hard to decide on the Chefs of the week, but Aika was very quick to joint her chicken and then helped others and Agastya and Onni, showed excellent teamwork to prepare their platter
Visiting Dietitian talks to the new IB Food Science students
Many thanks to Denise Fair (IS parent), who very kindly came in today to talk to the Y12 students studying the new IB Food Science course. Denise has been a qualified Dietitian for 15 years and has been working in Hong Kong for 10 years. She gave a really informative and interesting question and answer sessions with the students on teenage dietary requirements and current diet related issues and trends. this will be very help to students, as they have just formed the IS healthy Food Group as a CAS project and will be doing lots of work around school linked to making good food choices throughout the year. Hope Denise will be coming back at some point later in the year to give talks to parents and other students, so keep you eyes pealed for more details
Week 2 Fashion Forward
Students are learning to work from a commercial pattern , working in small groups to identify and trace the pieces they each require .
Melody and Janice are using the sample books to select their materials
Lord’s Kitchen – Week 1 Chefs of the week (Mike, Vanessa and Justin)
Well done to Mike, Vanessa and Justin who were awarded the first Chef of the week, of the year in Lord’s Kitchen. They showed the best working practices in the omelette challenge, doing their mise-en-place perfectly and had good heat control when cooking the omelette.
ESF Chef Competition winners burger creation
The winners of the ESF Chef competition this year, got to spend a day at Butcher Club, as part of their prize. They got to design their own Burger for the September Burger takeover promotion, coming up with the Molten Chick Burger. Please enjoy the video of the day and be aware that all ESF students will receive $20 discount on each Molton Chicken Burger they buy during September, if they show their student card
Year 8 Finish their clocks
The last group to go through this year have finished their clocks. Some fabulous development work has led to these designs. A really good group to work with and some genuinely creative individuals. Well done all. 
Natalie Leung – Baking Business (Bread and Butter)
Well done to Natalie who has decided to set up her own baking Business, called Bread and Butter, to keep herself busy and follow her passion during the summer holidays. She is one of the most talented young bakers I have ever taught and got the highest grade in her recent GCSE Practical exam. I would certainly use her services if I had a party or event that needs some sweet treats or a decorated cake.
More details can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/breadandbutter.hk/
