Food Studies

Some very excited students continued their food specialisations journey this Term, with Year 8’s looking at hygiene and basic safety in the kitchen, Year 9’s beginning to understand more about what makes food ‘healthy’, and Year 10’s travelling around the world, experiencing foods that have an impact on what we eat in Australia today.

For assessment, Year 8’s have been busy completing a ‘Mystery Cook’ where they are given a mystery recipe and they need to decipher and cook a mystery item, using only the provided ingredients and a workplan with instructions. This has been an exciting experience where we have put our theory and knowledge learnt to the test!

Year 9’s have been busy making gourmet burgers and lots of discussions have been had about what ingredients should and shouldn’t be on a burger!

Over the term, the Year 10 Food Studies classes have been exploring different cuisines and their key flavourings. As part of their assessment, they presented in an International Cooking Show, and created a dish in teams. While it can be a nerve-racking experience to present, students did a great job demonstrating different cookery techniques and flavourings of their chosen culture. 

All in all, work in Food Studies has been not only fun, but we have learnt a lot about fabulous food and how to make healthy foods fun!

This term in the Technology faculty the students have been working on developing their skills across a number of different areas.

The Year 7 DAT students have been learning how to safely utilise different tools and equipment in the production of a timber truck. Students use these skills learnt during the lessons to produce different components and consolidate their learning in a practical environment.

Year 9 DAT Students have created a Sheet Metal tool box. This metal introduction project focuses on correctly measuring and marking out and understanding the properties of metal.

Year 9 TES students have been exploring aerodynamics to create a Helicar and test the principals of aerodynamics. They have used the plastic forming machine and modelling skills to create working prototypes of their designs. 

In Year 10 Engineering, students have been utilising CAD (Computer Aided Design) to produce a 3 dimensional Dragon using interconnecting components that demonstrate different ranges of movement and forces applied to different parts.

Our Year 10 Design and Technology students have been using skills learnt on more advance tools and equipment to develop their Tambour box production. Students have been using our CNC router to produce some of the pieces for the Tambour box and using more traditional tooling for other components.

Our Year 11 ISK students have been busy developing their skills in woodworking by producing a Timber mallet for their first of many projects in this unit of study. The mallets were produced from exotic materials that were sourced from excess and offcuts from furniture manufactures around the local area. Students had the opportunity to introduced a sustainability aspect into their work and use materials such as American Oak, Walnut, Redgum, Victorian Ash and native Black Butt. Students saw first hand the different working and finishing qualities of the different timbers.

Year 11 Design Students have been working through the fundamentals of design, looking at sketching skills and how to generate ideas using divergent and convergent thinking. They have begun to explore different design styles and how that has impacted designs through products, graphics and architecture.