TECHNOLOGY

Welcome to Semester 2 and it is a pleasure to welcome a new group of students into the Technology classrooms. Students have looked at workshop safety and are starting to design their projects as well as learning the skills required to successfully execute their designs.

Upgrades to the benches in the Woodwork rooms are progressing well and it certainly helps to improve student learning being on a new workbench. Students are very keen to claim their space when they enter the classroom. Upgrades to other areas of Technology will also occur soon.

 Planning is underway for some student involvement in the Lilydale show later in the year, with Food Technology certainly keen to encourage students to enter the various baking competitions.

We are looking forward to a productive semester 2 in the Foods Department and can’t wait to see what our students will produce. We have completed work on safety and hygiene and have started to build our students skills and confidence as they work toward their Independent Design CAT. It’s been great to see the Year 7’s enthusiasm and willingness to embrace new challenges as they produce scones, toasted sandwiches and conduct taste testing. Our Year 9 students have had a busy start to the term; investigating their family history, making and decorating cupcakes in Special Occasions Foods, conducting taste tests comparing breakfast bars they made with commercial products, ranking the nutritional value of breakfast cereals, making ham and cheese breakfast scrolls in Food for Life and in Food Studies they have made vegetarian sausage rolls and compared them to vegetarian ones, making butterscotch rolls and gluten free choc chip cookies. Year 10 Barkers Bakery have worked with yeast making bacon and cheese pull-a-parts and cinnamon twists and are now starting their work with pastry beginning with spanakopita. They have conducted a newspaper article review and investigated the ethics and sustainability of the production of chocolate.