TECHNOLOGY

This semester is well underway and the students have had the past 8 weeks and the opportunity to spend time developing their practical skills and most have completed or are near to completing their first CAT. 

In Year 7, students have been completing either Food Technology or Product Design Wood. The food students have cooked many things, hopefully some of this has made it home. In Product Design Wood students will be completing their Tangram and these will start to come home in the next few weeks. 

In Year 8, students have been working in either Product Design Textiles or Digital Technology. In Textiles we have explored different ways to manipulate and alter fabric. This experimentation will help students decide what fabric techniques they use in their final product in Term 2.  

In Year 9 and 10 Product Design students have been busy working on their individual designs. Studies in either Wood, Metal, Systems or Textiles have seen students solving design tasks and learning the skills required to create products that meet the design task. 

Our students have made a welcomed return to Food Studies cooking up a storm in our kitchens. Our Year 7 students have worked well developing their safety and hygiene skills which they have applied to make a range food products such as pita pockets, scones, pastries, toasties, French toast, chicken fillet burgers and microwave mug cakes. This has allowed them to begin to develop a range of skills using equipment and cooking. Year 9 Special Occasion Foods and Food Studies students have completed their first CAT’s, one celebrating their culture and the other investigating the ethics and sustainability of food production. They made an amazing array of food products such as empanadas, apple strudel sheet cake, frittata’s, butterfly cakes, calzones, butterscotch rolls etc. 

Our Year 10 Barkers Bakery have developed many complex skills including how to work with yeast making products such as bread and cinnamon scrolls as well as making and working with a range of pastries and making products such as filo pastry- spanakopita, short crust-slow cooked shepherds pies and salted caramel tarts, choux pastry- eclairs and puff pastry- apple tarte tatin, pizza scrolls, palmiers and mille feuilles. Our Food Studies students completed their first CAT investigating Meal Kits as well as making a range of products such as chicken Caesar salad, pizza, beef satay and roti, mini lemon meringue tarts and churros. Barkers BBQ have worked to develop a range of skills using different BBQ techniques.  The Year 11 students have worked extremely hard developing skills knowledge to help them complete the set outcomes.  

Our Year 12 Systems class have successfully completed their SAC and have started designing their work for the SAT. Students undertook a virtual tour of the Western Treatment plant, learning that Melbourne water processes around 500 million litres of sewage a day and is producing it’s own energy via 3 onsite generators and a solar farm located at the Eastern Treatment plant. 

Andrew Dingey
KLA Leader Technology