Showing items for tag “Design Technology”

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  Year 9 healthy burger competition

  Published 04/10/17

  Congratulations to Mia Diamond who won the Year 9 healthy burger competition and a £25 voucher kindly donated by Stilton Butchers.

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  Food technology teacher Mrs Wendy Wykes retires

  Published 31/08/17

  Brooke Weston’s food technology teacher Mrs Wendy Wykes is retiring after working at the school for four years.

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  Local butcher gives demonstration to Year 9 students

  Published 29/08/17

  Students in Year 9 were invited to view a butchery demonstration and learn about careers within the food industry during a talk by Jeremy Musgrove from Peterborough-based Stilton Butchers.

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  Students visit College of Food in Birmingham

  Published 04/07/17

  A group of Year 10 GCSE students visited the University College of Food in Birmingham, one of the countries leading universities for food courses as part of their food technology GCSE preparation.

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  Brooke Weston presents Beanfield Primary with handmade display cabinet

  Published 03/07/17

  Thanks to Brooke Weston Academy's DT technician, Mr Darren Hooper, who has spent hours making a trophy cabinet for Beanfield Primary School. The finished product, made of fingerjointed plywood, features shelves and a sliding perspex screen.

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  Behind the scenes tour of the Coca Cola factory

  Published 13/06/17

  A group of students in Year 9 were invited to tour a Coca Cola factory in Milton Keynes as part of their Food Technology studies. The site is one of six education centres in the UK where students received a glimpse into the practical world of work and a behind-the scenes learning experience.

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  Students take part in Tomorrow’s Engineers Week

  Published 16/11/16

  Year 9 students took on practical challenges including building bridges out of paper and level crossings from Lego during a STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) day run as part of Tomorrow’s Engineers Week.

  This is a nationwide initiative where companies from across the country visit schools to set challenges and practical activities. Network Rail led STEM days at ten schools across the region and students from each will visit their headquarters in Milton Keynes later this month for more challenges, including a programming session on level crossing control.

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  Students see butchery demonstration

  Published 15/09/16

  Our Year 9 students saw a butchery demonstration and heard about careers within the food industry during a talk by an expert from Peterborough-based Stilton Butchers.

  The session was an introduction to their food and nutrition studies and, as well as being shown how to portion a chicken, the students learned about the best cuts of beef for burgers plus saw how the professionals minced meat, added seasonings and used a press to transform them into commercial burgers.

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  Food tech students visit University College

  Published 13/09/16

  A group of 14 GCSE Food Technology students found out more about food related courses and technology during a recent visit to University College Birmingham.

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