The Year 12 Food and Hospitality class completed their final task for the course on Friday, 19 September by catering for a Gratitude Dinner for a combination of family members and staff. The menu included native foods in each course. A “restaurant” was created in what is usually a kitchen and was decorated with gum leaves, native plant-inspired fabrics, candles, and fairy lights, which made the perfect setting for the guests to enjoy the three-course dinner.

After almost a year of working individually to create different dishes and foods based on a variety of topics, it was special for the class to work together to say thank you to the people in their worlds who have helped them in many ways, not least of which is to get near the end of Year 12.

The groups worked well together to produce the menu below:

All of the dishes were well received by the guests, and the students learnt many useful skills from greeting guests, meeting their needs, serving food and drinks, coordinating the preparation of the many elements of the dishes, presentation, and of course collaboration.

This was a mammoth task that the students handled well.

Dianne Dearden
Leader of Learning - Technologies (Food and Fabrics)