The Second and third ‘Cooking with Kevin’ Class

Two more sessions of ‘Cooking with Kevin’ class took place in October 2022.

On 19th October, five senior form boys participated in it and delved into learning how to make Meatballs Marinara. The aim is to equip students with skills in understanding measurements and volume as well as learning how to make great easy food. Read what our new chefs had to say.

Andrew said, “The spices in the meatballs and marinara just make them taste and smell really good. Overall, this dish is great, nothing needs to be changed.”

Calvin said, “Overall, the meatballs taste good.”

The boys even made a care package for our teacher who loves meatballs. She enjoyed the meatballs over Ziti with the marinara sauce and said “it was delicious!”

On 21st October, the third session of “Cooking with Kevin” was conducted. Another four senior boys newly joined and experimented in making Cranberry Banana Bread. There were lots of positive energy and fun! In the cooking class, students were able to learn useful cooking knowledge, for example, reasons of the broad usage of cinnamon in cooking and reasons of baking with room temperature eggs.

Two boys shared their feelings after baking and tasting the bread:

Alpha said, “The surface of the cake is quite crispy, together with the raisins and chocolate added — literally icing on the cake. My mum also said that it was tasty and she didn’t expect that I could bake that well.  I look forward to the next cooking class. I remember that risotto is the next cooking dish, right? Now I’ve got more options to fill my tummy when I am hungry.”

Kelvin Lai said, “The banana bread tastes good. It’s my pleasure to attend Kevin’s cooking class.

Thank you and see you next week, Mr. Rey.”

The boys and Mr. Rey were having a good time in the cooking class!

The first “Cooking with Kevin” Class

This school year, our NET teacher Kevin organises cooking classes for our students, as an EMI (English medium instruction) activity. We are very pleased that the very first “Cooking with Kevin” class started on 14th October. Three senior form boys took part in the cooking class and learnt to bake Chocolate Cranberry Banana Bread. The boys learnt to bake with Kevin in English and surprised their families with their baking creations. The participants shared their thoughts:

Andrew – “The banana bread was delicious and perfect for breakfast. I love the moist texture and the mixed flavour of it.”

James – “My parents loved it, and they ate up most of it... But we thought that the bread was a little too sweet, so I will either add less sugar or add dark chocolate instead next time."

Daniel - "It’s a little too sweet. The combination of chocolate and berries made the bread taste good. My parents were very surprised. They didn't believe I did it myself."

Stay tuned for the future updates on our cooking classes.

F.6 Parents' Gathering (2022-2023)

On 8th October, the F.6 Parents’ Gathering was held. We are pleased to have about 65 parents participating in the event on that day. For the first half of the day, a seminar took place in the school hall. The seminar introduced the JUPAS scheme, selection of programme choices and other learning experiences to parents. At the seminar, our school social worker, Ms. Lam, was also invited to share the skills with parents that how they might accompany their sons during the stressful journey of preparing for DSE. After the seminar session, parents met our form teachers to express and exchange ideas with teachers. Our school is glad that most parents found this event informative and helpful.

Awards for International Youth Tech Olympics 2022

During the summer vacation period in the previous school year, our school STEM Team participated in the International Youth Tech Olympics 2022 and they had won various awards in the competition.

On the 29th September 2022, our school principal Mr. Mario Leung presented prizes to the school STEM Team for the awards they had won in the International Youth Tech Olympics 2022.

The awards are as follows:

Drone Coding Competition Secondary Group 無人機編程中學組

Prize: Merit Award

Drone Manual Control Competition Secondary Group 無人機手動中學組

Teams

Prize

Team 1

Merit Award

 

Team 2

Merit Award

 

Team 3

Champion

 

Robotics Challenge Secondary Group 機械人挑戰賽中學組

Prize: 2nd runner up

WER (World Educational Robot Contest) Secondary Group 世界教育機械人大賽中學組

Name of awardees

Prize

Team 1

香港區循線王一等獎

香港區任務挑戰賽季軍

 

Team 2

香港區循線王亞軍

香港區任務挑戰賽冠軍

 

Team 3

香港區任務挑戰賽一等獎

 

Other than the individual awards, our STEM Team also had outstanding overall performance. They won the 1st runner up for the drone event, the champion for the robotic event and the overall champion in the secondary group.

Furthermore, it is pleasing that our STEM Team is chosen to compete with 2000 teams over the world in the World Educational Robot Contest that will be held in Shanghai.

Congratulations to our STEM Team. Keep up the spirit and strive for the best in the coming competitions!

 

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