Tunnocks Competition Success
Tunnocks Competition Success
It's my pleasure to announce that Reika (UC5) won a prize in the national Tunnocks Competition, where students are asked to plate a Tunnocks teacake, decorating it to reflect diversity and culture.
Reika won the Judges’ Recommendation prize and will be awarded with a certificate and Tunnocks merchandise when she returns to Sixth Form.
Reika produced a cherry blossom tree inspired by the trees in Japan. It was beautifully presented and showed off a range of skills including chocolate work, setting with gelatine and fruit reductions. Well done Reika!
Read what Toni (UC4) thought of the experience:
On Tuesday 1st July, we were incredibly lucky to take part in Jamie Oliver’s attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest ever cookery lesson.
Along with thousands of others and more than 700 schools, we joined his live virtual lesson and learned how to make homemade pasta with a fresh tomato sauce.
We started by making the pasta dough, and one of Jamie’s top chefs showed us how to shape it into fun pasta types like gnocchetti (small, ridged pieces) and pici (hand-rolled pasta that looks like thick spaghetti).
For the sauce, we chopped fresh tomatoes and mixed them with garlic, olive oil, and other seasonings. Once our pasta was cooked, we combined everything together with the sauce, added fresh basil and a sprinkle of grated cheddar cheese.
It was so much fun, and amazing to be part of such a huge, shared experience. Afterwards, we got to enjoy our delicious creations and now we’re proud to call ourselves pasta champions!