Y13 BTEC Business – Apprentice Baking challenge
As part of the Y13 BTEC Business studies course, the students were split into 3 teams and each team was gioven $300 to spend on ingredients and materials and were given a stall at the winter fare. They were then asked to go away and plan there stall and were given a 3 hours slot in the food room, to make their products.
The 3 teams were
The Baking Boys and decided to make Triple Chocolate Brownies with fudge sauce.
Gumdrop buttons making Cupcakes
Puff flex making sweet and savory pasties.
The baking was on the whole a great success, with only Puff flex encountering any problems, as some of the sweet white chocolate pasties had quite a bit of leakage and therefore could not be sold. Gumdrop buttons, worked excellently together and produced high volume of consist cupcakes, very good collaboration. The Baking Boys produced a high quality luxury product which they then cleverly packaged.
At the winter fare The Baking boys sold out first with there 35 portions of brownies being very popular,The Cupcakes being sold for $10 each sold at steady pace and eventually sold out, but the pasties, didn’t quite sell out and they had a bit of waste from the exploded chocolate pasties.
All profits were going the Masarang Foundationon and after they had repaid their $300, paid their stall rent the final totals were
The Baking Boys – $700
Gumdrop buttons making Cupcakes – $646
Puff flex making sweet and savory pasties $134
This makes The Baking boys the winning team in terms of profit, but Gumdrop Buttins, won the teamwork award.
Chef of the Week – Mrs Irwin
This week’s Chef of the week is not a student, as I felt Mrs Irwin, the Food technology Educational Assistant, deserved the recognition, as she spent her spare time working on molding and modelling an orangutan out of icing, to be displayed on the Masarang stall at the Winter Fare. It will be auctioned off for the charity at the end of the fare.
I am sure you will agree it is work of art. Thank you for all the hard work, time and effort you put into making it.
3D Product Design – Entrepreneur Challenge!
Identifying the Problem
Having developed many practical skills from the past few months projects, the elements product designers have begun their “Entrepreneur Challenge”.
Design Brief: “New products are coming on the market everyday, but aren’t always successful. You are to come up with a new product that will fill a gap in the market, and be able to generate profit.”
With a Dragon’s Den/Shark Tank-esque panel to pitch to at the end of the semester, the groups have identified their problems and are working through the design process to come up with a viable solution to their identified problem.
Some of the problems getting solved/products being developed are:
“Mac charger cables breaking at the bend”
“Locker tidy”
Initial Designs for a smartphone holder
Architectural Design Elements Course
Students are well into their personal projects in the Architectural Design Elements Course. Here are some photographs of various aspects of their work. The gallery shows models, floor plans, sketchup file screen shots as well as drawings.
For more images follow this link
Ozra Yau’s Photoshop poster
Here we see and example of how blending modes and masking can be used to great effect as a visual communication tool.
Lord’s Kitchen (week 11) – Desserts
In this weeks Lord’s Kitchen we ventured into the world of dessert with pupils either working individually or in pairs to produce a dessert that could be served at a restaurant.
Although varied in success everyone got a dish onto the display table all were edible and some were fantastic. Mt favorites were the Citrus Tiramisu and the Panna Cotta tartlets
Chocolate cake with Almond topping lol
Citrus Tiramisu
Milk Chocolate Fondant with Raspberries , and Mint chocolate chip Ice Cream
vanialla Panna Cotta Tarlets
Vanilla Crepes with Peaches and Cream
Oreo Brownies and Cream
Strawberry and Mint Cheesecake
Salted Caramel Millionaire shortbread
Lemon Walnut Macaroons
White Chocolate Ice Cream and Almond Shortbread
Ginger and Syrup Sponge Pudding
Lord’s Kitchen/Blue – Charity Butcher Burger Sale (week 10)
In this week’s lesson Blue butchers chefs came into school to help sell purgers for the Masarang Charity. Pupils had been trained how to prepare the fillings and cook the burgers last week, so his week it was all about team work and mass production. One all the salad prep was done and the burger buns were toasted, the class was split into two, a team for the playground and team in the classroom. The classroom team had a to cook 2/3’s of the buns and had a really good production line going on, whilst the playground team was cooking the rest on the outdoor grill and selling all the burgers.
It was a very hectic hour of selling, where 172 burgers were sold, raising $6500 for the the charity and even though there wwere a couple of foreseen hiccups, everyone really pulled together to ensure this was a major success and gave pupils a really valuable experience into the catering industry.
Pupils were then really happy to recieve a gift bag from the Blue butcher (Maximal Concepts), with a T-shirt, certificate and meal voucher- So once again thank-you very much to the whole team involved.
Magic of Animation Course Week 10
This week saw the presentation of students second animation exercise. They have worked in new groups and in a variety of media once more. This time round there was more focus on the nature of character through action as well as the use of sound. Here are some of the results as a youtube playlist.
