Year 11 Food Studies
Year 11 Food Studies students have this term each been developing a food product able to be sold from a food truck. The food had to be able to be served hot and be presented creatively. One class had to develop a food product suitable for the Tesselaar Tulip Festival’s Children’s Week, while the other class had the task of catering to consumers visiting the Yarra Valley Farmers’ Market. It was brilliant to see the wide range of solutions that students generated. Sweet and savoury options were both presented with the deep fryer getting a good workout. Some standout ideas were a sausage roll wreath shaped as a tulip, homemade gnocchi, churros with ganache, meatball sub sandwiches, doughnuts with salty caramel dip, loaded hot dogs with homemade relish and chicken, as well as vegetarian souvlakis. It was great to see students apply their food presentation skills to produce some outstanding dishes.
Year 9 My House Rules
Students in the Year 9 My House Rules class have just completed their first task of the textiles component of this course — designing and contributing to a group bedroom makeover. Students selected a variety of themes from black with hot pink, pastels through to naturals. It was great to see lots of discussion as students worked out their skills and interests and how their Textile creations could complement one another. We had bed canopies, cushions, dream catchers, bunting, macrame wall hangings and pot holders, crochet and knitted blankets produced. Visiting judges had the difficult task of selecting the three best makeovers so that prizes could be awarded. The students are now beginning to make a tote bag before they start the cooking unit next term.
