The Regional Engagement Enterprise

It has been a busy two weeks of cooking in TREE!

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MysTREE Box Challenge

On Monday 5th November, Kinross Wolaroi held the inaugural MysTREE Box Challenge cooking competition for Orange high schools. James Sheahan Catholic High School and the Orange Christian School entered teams together with four teams from KWS. All of these students are either taking hospitality as a Stage 6 subject or Food Technology in Stage 5.

The students had to design a 3-course meal from mystery local ingredients. These ingredients were kindly donated by Farmgate Butchery, Biteriot, MSM Milling, Manildra Group Flour Mill, Carbeen Pasture Raised Organic Eggs, Trunkey Creek Bacon and Abilene Olive Grove. The morning began with a research session before the students had 3-hours to cook their meals for guest judges Michael Manners, Kate Bracks and Alison Karbowiak.

Every school and team produced some outstanding meals, especially given that there were no ovens in the DPA! The winning team of James Wright, Jema O’Neill and Flo Conway was from Kinross Wolaroi! An outstanding achievement and a brilliant day that we hope to replicate as an annual event.

PDHPE

Year 7 PDHPE students have recently completed their unit on Local, Healthy Foods. Within this topic they have explored food trends, the concept of Paddock to Plate and the 100-mile diet. Their assessment task required them to investigate opportunities to buy local here in Orange and to design a 3-course meal showcasing local produce.

Last term the students planted seedlings in our market garden beds and last week they harvested these. They used their bounty together with our own eggs and bacon to cook up a class meal.

PLC Planting

Year 9 and 10 boarders spend Sunday 4th November planting up a storm at PLC. The students clipped the wings of their new chooks, mulched, composted and weeded the garden beds, and planting up their seeds and seedlings ready for harvest in the new year. If you haven’t been up to check out the PLC Vege garden, make sure you go for a wonder when you are next there.

The TREE Team

Our co-curricular enterprise team have been busy selling the produce they created with local smallgoods maker Stefan Birmili. The students sold over 250 of their homemade sausages at the Prep School Open Day, have finished curing, smoking and slicing their own bacon, and have recently taken delivery of their 10 Christmas hams.

Look out for them at our Celebration of Learning Evening on Saturday!

Mr Tom Riley

Director of TREE