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One might wonder how we could get students to still get a decent practical experience with remote learning in subjects such as Food Technology, but as is shown below, the students...
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One might wonder how we could get students to still get a decent practical experience with remote learning in subjects such as Food Technology, but as is shown below, the students...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
Year 11 are fabulous home cooks! Mrs Hanbury’s Year 11 GCSE group have not let learning from home stop them accessing the food skill side of Food Preparation and Nutrition....
Posted by Alison Hanbury
It was a very enjoyable lesson to be in the food tech kitchen on Friday, making vegetable soup with a few year 7s that are currently in school during the latest lockdown. The...
Posted by David Chalkley
Even in this last week of term, staff were sharing best practice in our usual morning Staff Briefings and we were privileged to hear from Mr Chalkley, Head of Design and...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The Year 9’s were welcomed into D&T Food for the language enrichment day. They had a very sweet day baking Magdalenas and Madeleines. What are Spanish magdalenas? In English,...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
It has certainly been a very different first half term back but despite all that’s going on in the world, it has been fantastic to have my textiles classroom back in action, with...
Posted by Niralee Pattni
The Year 13 food science and nutrition students have had a few decisions to make with regards to the course units because of covid. WJEC said they will disregard Year 12 and base...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Year 11 GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition group have made an excellent return to practical skills in the kitchen. They had been learning about food hygiene issues when using raw...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Over the past few weeks, our students have been working on the D&T monster project. They were asked to challenge themselves by creating their very own monstrous characters...
Posted by Niralee Pattni
“Go to work on an egg” was an advertising slogan used by the United Kingdom’s Egg Marketing Board during the 1950s and 1960s I have no idea why we needed to...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
One might wonder how we could get students to still get a decent practical experience with remote learning in subjects such as Food Technology, but as is shown below, the students and staff at Bushey Meads, yet again, have risen to the challenge and shown the will to find a way and not settle for the easy option.
Logged in to Ms Hanbury’s live lesson from home, Evan Luxton, in Year 9, along with his mum, were following the live demonstration to make fresh bread. Evan’s mum wrote the following:
“Dear Ms Hanbury,
Thank you for your practical lesson today, Evan really enjoyed making bread and we have just eaten it for our lunch, it was delicious.
I have attached a photo of him.”

It was a real pleasure to walk in to Ms Hanbury’s live lesson and be reminded yet again what amazing teachers we have and how they go the extra mile to provide the very best for the students in our care. Despite all but one student being logged on from home, there was still a real buzz about the lesson and I could see a good number of students cooking at home too. Please watch the video below to get a flavour of this outstanding lesson!
What are imiscable liquids? Predict at what temperature denaturation occurs. What food enables liquids to gelatinise? Develop a way to prove if coagulation is reversible? Just a...
It is lovely to witness the growing crates of donations from students and staff towards the local Red Trust Food Bank. Each House has a crate in which to place their donations of...