FLG visits Zen Organic farm
Food trends are always changing and organic farming has been one of those trends which has come to stay. Today the class took a trip to Zen organic farm, to learn about organic farming and sustainability. Joey, (who runs the farm with her brother)gave a talk and then took us around to harvest vegetable that were to be used to prepare our lunch. After the tour, it was lunch time and we all had the opportunity to try the freshly pick purple peppers, wasabi flavoured flowers, lettuce all in one salad. We were also treated to a beetroot and carrot soup. Lastly but not least, we got to make and bake our own pizza in a tradition wood oven. Although, we came back beaten by mosquitos and a bit tired, the day overall was a good learning experience for all.
IS Masterchef Final
This year’s Master Chef competition at Island school started in January with the first round of Junior and Senior students competing for their House. Junior contestants worked in pairs while seniors worked independently, with each contestant making a dish that they felt would be suitable to be sold in a coffee shop. The top 5 from each category then went through to the semi-finals.
The semi-finals in March saw the juniors creating vegetarian meals (to reduce meat intake). The seniors were asked to design a dish to promote the use of herbs being grown in the school garden.
The judges were made up from a range of teachers and students but they all agreed that the semi-final winners were Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee (Rutherford) in the junior section and Ayesha Shahani (Wilberforce) in the senior section.
The final took place at the Cultural Spring Fair 15th April 2016 and the top three juniors and seniors were tasked to make two different fusion tapas dishes in an hour and a half.
The judges were; Edgar Sanuy, Head Chef from Maximal Concepts,
Mr and Mrs Binge,
Natalie Chan (ex-student studying culinary arts)
Kaela-Mei Townson, who was last year’s winner.
Head of Food and Textiles Technology Chris Binge said; “The standard was very high and the judging was close but there was a unanimous decision on who should win;
Juniors, Yash Anand and Alessandro Lucchani (Wilberforce) with Homemade Curry Ravioli and Aztec Brownies with Mango Shrikhand.
Senior, Claudia Lau (Rutherford) with Tuna Tartare with Red Quinoa and Indian Spiced Churro with Cardamon Syrup.
These three students will now compete in the ESF final on 27th May held Sha Tin College.
Mr Lord; “Many thanks to Maximal Concepts for sponsoring and donating the restaurant voucher prizes for brunch at Fish and Meat, Mercedes Me and Blue Butcher. Also thanks to the PTA and Masterful Ltd for the amazing hampers that they put together as prizes.”
Lords Kitchen (week 10) – Plating challenge Chef of the week Krishna
In this weeks lesson pupils were given a selection of ingredients along with a piece of salmon and some pea puree and were asked to try and design a modern style restaurant standard dish. The results were all very impressive and we would like to get you to vote for your favorite to decide on the chef/s of the week.
Please vote for your favoutire two
Year 8 Digital Literacy Logos Work
The unit on Logos Year 8’s do is part of their Media Literacy awareness in Digital literacy. We spend a number of weeks developing skills with vector graphics software before deconstructing logos and how they communicate. We work on typography, colour and shape before anlaysing a brief and developing ideas for that brief. Below are some of the best outcomes from this unit across the year. Well done all those whose work is featured.
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IS Masterchef Semi-Finals
Last Friday saw the exciting semi finals of Masterchef at Island School, with the Juniors being challenged to make a Meat-free dish to encourage people to eat less meat and the Seniors a dish to showcase herbs from the school garden, both in 45min time-frame. The judging was as always tough and panel of teachers and students finally came up y\with their winners in each section
In Seniors Ayesha Shahani won with her Tart filled with mint and lavender chocolate Ganache
In Juniors Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee won with their Mushroom Tagliatelle
Also Going Through from Senoirs is Claudia in 2nd place with her Thai Beef Salad
and Hitesh with he Pesto Pasta in a Parmesan Basket
From Juniors in 2nd place, by only 1 pint were Alessandro Lucchini and Yash Anand with their Aubergine parmigiana and Jason Qiu & Jordyn Dubinsky with their Macaroni Cheese pie
Well done to all the other competitors who didn’t quite make it through, the standard as once again really high
Yr10 engineers end up adrift!
The y10 engineers challenge to build amphibious vehicles resulted in a few sole survivors.
Despite a lot of work going into their designs, unfortunately none of the vehicles got up the ramp to get into the aqueous section of the course. One team however did manage to paddle their way across the water tank to victory.
Check out their designs below:
Getting to grips with Graphic skills
Students in this semester’s 3D Product Design elements course learn the basics of being a designer – how to draw!
The fundamental communication tool of the designer, knowing how to draw is an important characteristic of becoming a designer. Students have learned how to draw:
Oblique, Isometric, 1,2 and 3 point perspective and exploded drawings.
Next week: Rendering!
FLG – fast Food with a twist
Today was week two for FLG. The theme for today’s menu was ‘Healthy fast food”. Students worked in different teams from last week. Each team was to prepare and make their own burgers, coleslaw salad, chicken nuggets and potato wedges with a healthy twist. All dishes were presented just before lunch. Mr Lord and Mr Binge were our guest judges. Ben, Ann, Garrett,Hayley and Amy were crowned Chefs of the week. Well done to everyone for working so hard
Lords Kitchen week 2 (veg cuts) – Chef of the week – Venus Lam
Well done to Venus (11N) who showed the most precision and accuracy in the vegetable cuts week of Lords Kitchen and made a lovely stir fry with the julienne of carrot.
