Food Lover’s Guide to Culture
Food Lover’s Guide to Culture kicked off this week with students making a variety of breads from around the world. Students were asked to research what breads are eaten around the world. They were then challenged to make any bread of their choice from the countries they had researched. It was a tall order because this was the first practical task they had been set in this elements course. the students exceeded my expectations because they produced some very good bread.
Elements – Wearable Art
This was the first lesson where the students were given plastic / paper /the use of a sewing machine and their imagination! Working in small groups and these are the outcomes!
Junior Masterchef Round 1 – Creative with rice
Well done to all the competitors who enter the Masterchef competition and represented their house. Each house could enter 2 pairs in the competition and the competitors were given the simple brief of creative with Rice This gave us a real range of dishes from Mango Sticky Rice with chocolate sauce to Risotto balls., and butter chicken to chocolate rice pudding. As You can see the food looked amazing!
AWell done to the following students who got through to the next round.
In Joint 1st Place Ottavia De Roas and Lucy Acheson form Rutherford and Chiara Dadamo and Avantika Malhotra from WQilberforce, they are this weeks Chef’s of the Week
In Third Place also from Wilberforce was Jorja Townsono and Charlotte Wong
Making up the last 3 places is school sheats was Megan Lam & Chiara Postacchini from Einstein, Koki Takamatsu and Riya Zaveri from Nansen and finally Libby Moser and Nicole So from Rutherford. Well done to all the competitors though . It was very close
Yellow Food Sale – Wilberforce Charity week
Well done the students in 10 and 7 Wilberforce who made and sold the Macaroni Cheese, Pizza’s and Smoothies for the yellow Food stall. Feeedback was great from the peopl,e who bought it and you raised $1150 for charity.
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.
Masterchef (senior) round 1 – Creative with Pasta
Today Island school held the first of three school rounds to determine the who will eventually represent the school in the ESF Final in June. Each house could enter 2 competitors from either Y10 or Y12 and the pupils were give the brief “Creative with Pasta” and had 45 mins to prepare and cook their dish.
There was a total of 10 competitors and the standard of food produced and served to the 4 judges was exceptional and the judges could each award of total of 15 marks for the creativity and sensory qualities of each dish. ten additional points could then be added to this score for the organisation, skills and working practices, decided upon by Mr Lord.
Well done to the following students who made it through to the next round, where the brief is a chilled dessert in 45mins
1st place Ravin Schmidl 12E (60/70 points) Who is now Chef of the week!
2nd Adrian Li 12D (59)
3rd Kaela-Mei Townson 10W (54)
Joint 4th – Linda Zhu 12W, Daniel Meerovitsch 10F, Katherine Nye 12R (52)
Commiserations to Ethan Li, Lindie, Gaultney, Perry Chan and Ttaka Hoshiyama, who just missed out on making the next stage of thge competition.
Also a big thank you to the judges (Ms Astridge, Nitin, Alvin and Claudia), Ms Reid and her camera crew and Mr Chan and Jason Lin who kept a watchful eye on the judging process
Yr7 learning to use the sewing machine !
Yr 7 in their second lesson learning to use the sewing machine – quote of the day from Joe Denmark”a fun new experience using a sewing machine! But it’s sometimes hard”
Year 9 Design Technology, modelling
Miyu Terashima 9N produced this paper model to develop and evaluate one of her ideas for a lamp.
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.
AYP Physical Skill – Cooking
A small group of students who do not do the Food course at Island school have been keen to develop their culinary skills and have decided to do cookery for the physical skill aspect of their AYP. This means them cooking at home once a week and keeping records/photo’s of what they have made and also cooking in front of Mr lord to see how well they work. Below you can see some of the students and their dishes. The students will do this again in a few months so we can see how they have improved and developed .
