Sixth Form
Food and Nutrition
Theatre Trip by Freya
On Wednesday, Miss Ridley took Year 12 Drama to the Bristol Old Vic. We set off on our adventure listening to some music in our minibus and soon after we arrived in Bristol, where we walked to a restaurant called Franco Manca, where some delicious pizza was eaten! After our food, we headed off to the theatre and met Mrs Bell.
In preparation for an international competition in March, the Sixth Formers took part in a fantastic and unique learning opportunity joining the Chairman and Judging panel from the national 'Craft Guild of Chefs' (founded in 1885 as the organisation of all the country's leading chefs) at South Devon Culinary College. Ahead of the 'International Salon Culinaire' in March (the world's top culinary competition of gastronomic skills for over a hundred years) the UK 'Craft Guild of Chefs' ran a South West set of skill challenges on restaurant skills, baking skills, main course skills, and vegan skills from the best young chefs across Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset up to Bristol at South Devon College nominated by Chefs and catering colleges across the South West. The Chairman Chef Wayne Harris offered our pupils the chance to get involved with judging and also to be involved in the London finals in late March part of the International Salon Culinaire with a whole raft of celebrity chefs, alongside former Chef Le Gavroche and judge BBC MasterChef Chef Monica Galetti. Following this the sixth formers had a tour of the professional kitchen's met more chefs and saw the student chefs preparing for competition dishes. "It was a unique and hugely rewarding culinary high - skills learning experience for our pupils", said Mr Mann, Head of the Faculty of Art, Design, and Food, adding "we look forward to having multi - award - winning international Chef Wayne Harris Chairman of the national 'Craft Guild of Chefs' join us at Queen's College in the very near future".
We were lucky enough to sit right at the front row and had an excellent view of the actors up close. The play we watched was called ‘ Drive Your Plough Over The Bones Of The Dead ’ performed by theatre company ‘ Complicite ’. It was performed in a style of Physical Theatre (which is a style that emphasises lots of movement to create a visually stunning piece), where a character called Janina, who is an animal enthusiast, narrates a story about multiple murders each clued with evidence of animals revenge for their slaughter of wildlife. The atmosphere was rather eerie at some points and then crisp the next. It was enjoyed by all!
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