Tag: Papakura Intermediate

🎲 Sawdust & Success! – Our Hard Material Project! 🎲

Kia ora, Reader!

Every Monday, the year 7 and 8 students from my school travel to Papakura Intermediate for technology classes, giving us the chance to learn in a completely different environment. It’s like a mini field trip every week!

This term, I’ve been placed in the Hard Materials rotation, where we  work hands-on tools, wood and metal (etc) to design and build real projects. Take a look at what I’ve created during my time in the workshop!

Take a wild guess–what do you think I made? If you said ‘Dominoes’, give yourself a high-five because that’s exactly it!

I’ve made the dominoes by scratch, learning how to use a DRILL PRESS during the process. I used the drill press machine to make the holes in my dominoes, it’s this big machine with a lever that you pull down to lower the drill bit. The more pressure you apply, the deeper it drills into the material. Super accurate hole space if you add the same pressure every time, quite easy to use and I find it pretty satisfying to do/watch!

Of course, to keep the dominoes even, before it was all into pieces, it was this long wooden board where I added some lines 30 cm apart to even up the blocks. (It indicates where I should saw 🪚!)

The fun thing about owning these hand made dominoes is that I could play games with them! Like the main one of course, the Classic Domino Game, or use them for math challenges, especially what you’ve seen in the video I’ve added. (If you observed the video well enough, you can see that I attempted to make the number 9 which symbolizes my class room).

Took me 2 weeks to complete by the way! Practically 2 Mondays.

If you’re filled with questions or want to give me feedback, just comment down below, please!

Thank you for reading! Have a great time 🎲.

25. ~FOOD TECHNOLOGY~ – T1 Week 7

Kia Ora, Reader.

On Monday, a Tech (where we hike to another school to learn more advanced things) this week, group 2 has made Mac’&Cheese.

Unexpectedly, we had no roles that day, so we just done whatever we could in the kitchen – like do any roles such as cleaning without being told to, helping with the cooking even though we weren’t assigned for that job, and yeah. I’m pretty sure you get what I mean.

 

THE SKILLS WE’VE USED WERE: Communicating with others, following the ingredients/method, and trying to clean as we were cooking.

In the middle of cooking, one of my partners messed up the mac&cheese sauce, and I (yes I) solved the problem and made it better than it originally was 😛.  I managed to improve the sauce with the help of the food technology teacher Whaea Leigh. We helped it become better by adding more cheese and straining the clumpy flour with the strainer and kinda like breaking it apart so it could individually mix together immaculately for no clumps. The strangest part in the making was the fact that we had to microwave milk – I found that abnormal because when adding  milk into Mac&cheese, I usually add it in straight up without heating the liquid. SO that was something I’ve learnt – that you could microwave liquid such as milk.

We put our kai into small tin pans big enough for ourselves to hold and eat. For reference, here’s what our making looked like. (An image I found online on Google since the photos we took at Food Tech couldn’t go through Room 9’s drive.)

It looked similar to that but less burnt and more with a crispy aspect.  

The outcome of our product looked and tasted spectacular! The way the cheese exterior combined well with the pasta is very unforgettable.

That’s it for this post! Catch you later. If you have any questions or thoughts – maybe possibly liked my work, please comment them down below, whether it’s positive or not.. I’ll take it.

(God Bless you) Bye!

 

 

 

25. – FOOD TECHNOLOGY – T1 Week 4

Kia Ora!!

For Tech this Monday, Group 2 (the Food Tech community of E.H.S) Whaea Leigh, the Food Tech’s teacher, ordered us to make ‘Cinnamon Pancakes’ – where the ingredients were written on a laminated sheet. Never in my life have I ever heard of that dish, nor did the people who were assigned in my group.  Group 2 had to split into groups of 3-4 and work in a station through 1 to 5. My group chose station 5 because it looked nice and the grey aprons did improve the modern-like look.

I don’t exactly remember the ingredients for the kai, so don’t question me about it.

My group in tech, used to have 4 people coo-operating within the small community I gathered to bake with me, but now that the teachers discussed on making a new group (because there used to be 3 groups for each class but there were too many students for the teachers to handle), which is group 4, they moved one of my friends into that group.. sadly. Since doing that, one of my friends had to take cover of cleaning after ourselves (Kitchen Hand – Washing the dishes, dusting flooring clean, and etc things that involves polishing), and that couldn’t be me because I was Sous Chef – the person who’s in-charge of the kitchen station, also known as the one who grabs the ingredients for our group. It was fully confirmed that day

Whilst making the pancakes, we all took turns – So one of my friends started by using the canola-oil-spray (so the batter of the pancake doesn’t stick upon the pan) then poured in approximately half a cup of the flour mixture to invent the look of our attempted pancakes. It was pretty fragile so it could rip easily – we had to be careful for our pancakes as we did our presentation, which kinda represented the image down below.

FOR REFERENCE THIS IS WHAT THE CINNAMON PANCAKE LOOKED LIKE REMOTELY. (I can’t get the photos of what I’ve baked with my group because it’s inserted in the Papakura intermediate’s photo album 🙂 ).

Next week Monday, our roles will switch – So since this week (Monday) I was Sous Chef, next week I would be the Kitchen Porter – Meaning that I would have to make things according to the method on the ingredient(s) paper. The person this week who was the ‘Kitchen Hand’ (cleaning job) would be the Sous Chef (leader in short terms) next Monday then the closing of this state, the person who was Kitchen Porter would become the cleaner (Kitchen Hand). It keeps repeating like over and stuff. (If you understand what I’m trying to imply 😅)

I’m going to end this post now! Comment down your thoughts and please pin point the mistakes I’ve unintentionally written down.

25. COOKING PRACTISE – Technology! T1

Kia Ora, Reader.

(CONCEPT: Every Monday,  Edmund Hillary School, well the Senior part of the school (Year 7’s & 8’s), visits Papakura Intermediate for Technology. Tech is about teachers who teach students alternative work that isn’t exactly a class/subject included in the students own academy (as far as my knowledge goes, so accordingly). So,  5 different schools visit Papakura Intermediate per day -(Implying there, for example; on Monday Edmund Hillary School stops by to learn over then on Tuesday another school goes. It keeps going like so), to acknowledge useful purposes that’ll obliging for future ado.)

WALT:

In Tech, We Are Learning How To – COOK/BAKE as a group and comprehend to; Clean our hands/kitchen once we start and finish, also flawlessly setting up our station well to prepare for next weeks performance in an attempt to cook.

On Monday, we (group 2) rehearsed on how to get to our stations approximately immaculate so for next week, when we’re actually preparing to get our main work together, so we know what to do in sequence for next Monday. Our learning intention is to also use our manners when accidentally bumping into somebody if you rushed to get the ingredients at the main kitchen (- that’s the Sous Chef’s job – the person who’s in charge of getting the ingredients straight and taking care of their station/group. Basically the Executive Chef) for your provision.

WHAT:

We Have Achieved This when we can identify the main highlights by making sure to have fun with friends and using up your schedule at cooking class while you can to relish within your time there –  not only about having fun is the first spotlight, but its also about what you’ve learnt during so. Next week Monday is the day when Group 2 really cooks…

and the thing they’re frying is a secret. Your hint is that: you could fry it.

Let me know if you have a clue of what we’re going to produce next Monday! Comment it down below.

That’s all for today – c’ya next post, bye! (I hope you understood what I was inferring there) 🫶