Year 8 D&T Copper Pendants

As mentioned in this post a few months ago, our KS3 D&T students have been working hard and having fun learning about metals and producing these creative copper pendants! We took advantage of the lovely snowy scenes outside and had a photo shoot showcasing some great designs, check them out below:

Be on the look out for more projects from our students soon and updates on other exciting things happening in the D&T department! Please feel free to leave us any comments, we'd love to hear from you!

Lasercut Christmas Tree Ornaments

In December 2016, the D&T department used the laser cutter to create some new styles of tree ornaments to sell to help raise money at the Beaumont Christmas fair! Here are some examples which were all personalised with individual names:

Thank you to those who purchased these ornaments and showed their support. Keep an eye out for what laser cut products will be available next Christmas! (And if you have any suggestions for future product ideas, please let us know!)

Choux Stopper Visit

On Friday, December 16th 2016, GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition students were treated to a professional cookery workshop lead by pastry chef and street food entrepreneur, Simon Northcott of ‘Choux Stopper’ Students watched Simon demonstrate making the perfect Pâte à Choux and spun sugar - they then made their own chocolate and salt caramel ‘wreaths’ for Christmas, filled with a rich salt caramel cream.

The students thoroughly enjoyed this experience and we are extremely grateful to Simon for taking time out of his busy schedule to lend us his expertise!

Do you (or does someone you know), work professionally in the food, hospitality or catering industry? We are always keen to hear from parents, friends and ex-students who could help our students improve their skills or demonstrate something new and interesting in lessons or on activity days. We are especially keen to hear from anyone working as either a dietician (or other health professional) or butcher, right now.

If you believe you could help, please contact Mrs J. Johnston ℅  admin@beaumont.herts.sch.uk.