Serving the meal

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This link shows you how important it is to make sure the food you serve is presented well

Event at Armthorpe School

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Introduction to event

When you start your event, you must tell the moderator what your event is and why you are doing it.  Look at my example.

As part of the hospitality GCSE I have decided to work alongside a school in Manchester and run a weekend residential course for our year 10 hospitality students. I had discussed this with Alison Clough-Halstead during one of our visits to Cardiff where we were holding a marking conference for the exams. By the time we had driven from Doncaster to Cardiff we had moved from hosting a meal for each others schools, to War of the Roses, where we would include local produce, to finally deciding a residential holiday would mean we could meet somewhere in between to reduce the costs for each school.

We were getting quite excited and really hoped our plan would come together as this was something we could talk about at future INSET meetings. However on returning to school we quickly got back into the routine of lesson planning and teaching and found time quickly passed by and we had not fulfilled our dream.

So in the summer holidays of 2011 we met up for lunch and decided this was the year we were going to ensure it happened. We discussed the range of things we could include such as , planning the meals for the weekend, hosting  a meal for the other school, setting homework for each others schools to complete and everything that holding an event of any kind entails. We decided it would be a great way to link the two schools and develop resources and ideas for the course. The first thing we had to do was set a date to sort things out and try to finalise ideas. On Tuesday 30th August Alison visited my home and we set to with ideas and researched where the event could take place.

We have decided that we will initially take up to 20 students from each school and trial the weekend then develop it further if it is successful. The students will be from the new year 10 intake. We decide on these students as it will take a while to fully organise the weekend and to allow the students time to pay for it, as well as complete the necessary work in school, such as speaking to governors and the head to request permission for the weekend to go ahead. We also had to plan when we would be available to take the students away. After looking at the calendar we decided either March or July were the best months, this would give us time to plan and ensure we had a venue.

As part of the planning we decided to write up the event as the students do, to show how it can be completed for both the students and the teachers. I hope you will find this useful when you are working with your students to plan an event.

Welcome

Welcome to the student blog for the Hospitality event between Alder Grange and The Armthorpe students. We hope you will all use this page to ask questions, post information and pictures and any relevant websites you may find. Any questions please ask and I will do my best to answer ASAP.