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Burger Brilliance 06/09/10

Bayfield High School has all of the ingredients of a top class Food Technology programme, and we were pleased to announce earlier that our junior representative, Greg Underwood ably represented the school at the regional finals of the Secondary School Beef and Lamb Burger Competition on June 18th and that Elizabeth Young, national champion of the junior section in 2009, was again the regional winner. The students’ success can only be attributed to their dedication, their many long hours in the kitchen preparing, trialling, and tasting the burgers, and the commitment of their teachers, Mrs Holt and Ms Zinke, who spent many hours with the students as the competition date drew nearer.

Year 8 students and their families also had the opportunity of seeing Elizabeth’s burger on Open Night. I was lucky enough to enjoy one of Elizabeth’s burgers, much to the jealousy of many other staff members that day. The burger was really delicious, with a large piece of steak, a huge helping of salad, avocado, a zesty dressing, and tiny cherry tomatoes on the side. Elizabeth has kindly shared her recipe with us.

Mexican Fiesta
2 fillet steaks,
2c salad ingredients, dressed with avocado oil and balsamic vinegar.
Avocado and mustard sauce 1/2 avocado,25ml white wine (alcohol cooked off), 25ml olive oil, 2 drops tabasco sauce, 1t American mustard, 1 small clove garlic, 1T flat leaf parsley,1-2 tomatoes.
Using the avocado sauce ingredients cut and peel avocado to extract flesh. Finely dice the garlic. Place all ingredients, except parsley and tomatoes, in a blender. Chop up tomatoes into small pieces and finely dice parsley. Mix through tomatoes and parsley and season to taste.
Tomato, Chilli, and Cumin Salsa 200g tomatoes,¼ red chilli,2t fresh ginger, 1t coriander, 1/2t cumin seeds, ½ T oil, ¼ lemon juice,2T pinenuts. Salt to season.
Cut the tomato in half horizontally and scoop out the seeds, slice finely. Mix with the remaining ingredients and season with salt to taste. Place in fridge until required for burger.
Steak Rub
1 clove garlic,Smoked Paprika to taste, Pepper and salt to season, oil
Finely dice garlic. Add rest of steak rub ingredients and mix together. Rub into steak. Place steak on a plate to allow flavour to absorb. Cover with gladwrap.
Balsamic Tomatoes
6 cherry tomatoes, 1t balsamic vinegar, 2t avocado oil
Place cherry tomatoes into an oven proof pan. Drizzle over avocado oil and balsamic vinegar. Cook until soft.

Heat grill pans until hot. (one for meat, other for bread)
Cook steak on both sides until medium rare. Remove from plate and rest for 3-5 minutes. Dress salad. And serve.
Create burgers (bottom up) bread, salad ingredients, salsa, steak, avocado sauce, bread.

Mediterranean Sun Passion fruit sauce
4T passion fruit syrup, 1/2C orange juice, 1T lemon juice.
Mix all ingredients together. Bring to the boil and reduce to a thick syrup.
Tomato Sauce 500g Tomatoes, peeled and diced, 1T olive oil, ½ onion, ½ t oregano, ½ t basil, 2T Tomato paste, 1 clove garlic,1T Red wine vinegar ½ t sugar.
Heat olive oil in a pan. Add in finely chopped onion and garlic and cook until tender.
Add red wine vinegar and tomatoes and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
Mix in tomato paste, sugar, dried basil and oregano. Simmer and reduce to required thickness.
Lamb pattie 250g lamb mince, 80g feta, 2T coriander, 2t oregano, 1/2 chopped onion, 1 egg,1t salt 1t pepper.
Finely chop onion. Crumb feta. Dice coriander and oregano. Mix all ingredients together. Oil outside of burger. Place on pre-heated grill pan and cook until the internal temperature reaches 65 degrees.
Bread
Oil bread with olive oil. Grill on grill pan until warm and lines are showing.

We wish Elizabeth all the very best for the nationals.

Sports Development 01/09/10

Bayfield High School continues to run its Sports Development Programme this year which is designed to recognise, support and develop its elite athletes. The purpose of this programme is to recognise outstanding achievement in sport, to foster growth and the development of individual athletic ability and to assist young athletes to enhance their athletic potential. This year, the course caters for 22 students, all of whom are in Bayfield High School “A” teams and includes students who are Otago representatives in Athletics, Basketball, Netball, Soccer and Hockey and New Zealand Representatives in Futsel and Hockey. Since 2007, the Sport Development Programme has been run by part-time PE teacher Trista Townsend.

A combination of junior and senior students is involved in the programme, with seniors meeting twice a week for training sessions with Mrs Townsend and juniors once a week. As a high percentage of the students are involved in winter team sports, the focus in term one is pre-season training with a lot of emphasis on increasing their aerobic fitness and term two focussing on conditioning, core strength work, anaerobic fitness and maintaining their current fitness levels. Mrs Townsend understands the importance of ‘variety’ when exercising so already the students have had a boxing session with a trainer from World Gym, spinning classes at Moana Pool, aqua aerobic sessions, and training at the beach. Mrs Townsend realises that “it is vital students enjoy training sessions and actually want to train. We like to show students the variety of training facilities that Dunedin offers and how to access them”.

As part of this year’s course, students have been, and will continue to go to primary and intermediate schools to offer coaching sessions in miniball and netball. The aim of this is to provide Bayfield students with greater communication and leadership skills which will aid their own personal development in their sporting codes, and to show students an understanding of what it is like to be on the ‘other side’ of sport, thus increasing their respect for their coaches and the time and effort volunteers put into their sport. Out of this, the primary and intermediate schools will gain access to the new Bayfield High School gymnasium and greater exposure to large ball skills and drills as part of their sports and physical education programmes.

The first school the students were involved with was Anderson’s Bay. They have coached 3 netball and 3 miniball teams for two sessions which culminated in a tournament held in both of Bayfield’s gyms. Devon Helm, a Year 13 member of the Sport Development Programme, was excited about offering coaching sessions to Anderson’s Bay pupils as she is an ex-student of the school. She said that “it was really cool coaching the kids, it’s nice to give something back. It was also great to see some of my old teachers, Mr Rodriguez coached me for miniball, and he was fantastic”

The Sport Development class then expanded into Tahuna and Tainui.

Jeremy Barnes

Melbourne Music Trip 01/09/10

On Tour

On the 5th of July, students of Bayfield High School from Dunedin, New Zealand assembled in their school hall in preparation for the nine-day Melbourne Performing Arts Trip. Performing Arts students packed their bags and experienced an exhausting six hour long bus trip to Christchurch before they boarded a three and a half hour flight to Melbourne Australia. The plane touched down at approximately 8am at the Melbourne International Airport. I was excited as I had never travelled internationally before. I stood still before the immigration before the gates opened and the greeting: “Welcome to Australia” appeared on a big screen. Other students who had the earlier version of the New Zealand passports had to attend the immigration desks rather than the newly updated passports that some of us had. We all assembled in groups until we realised we were all to be separated as we made our way through customs. I held my breath; terrified as my bag was then scanned through a conveyer machine followed by a check by an airport customs worker. We finally reached the observation lounge after two hours of check-in and customs. We all began spending money on our first meal at one of the many cafés or restaurants that the Melbourne International Airport has to offer. I stood confused as I held my Travelex Cash Passport ATM card as performing arts teacher Philippa Hosken explained how to use the card, and I remained confused until my piano teacher Jo Dryden just told me to enquire at the Travelex desk to ask how to use it. I made a sixty dollar withdrawal and bought some lunch from a cafe before I climbed on to the bus which headed into the city of Melbourne. The city of Melbourne is amazing. The buildings reach to the sky with their colourful varieties of architecture. We explored our way through one of the many large streets. I suddenly felt awake in this stunning city after feeling over-tired because of only two hours worth of sleep during the bus trip to Christchurch. I gazed up at the buildings ecstatic as the only tall building I had ever seen in my life was the Auckland Sky Tower. Immediately I grabbed my only video recording device which was my 5th Generation I-pod to capture the hustle and bustle of the streets and the towering buildings. The tram cars drifted along the roads so quickly and they were so efficient. It was the most reliant public transport I had ever seen. If only Dunedin had something as reliant as this! We caught a tram car almost every day. Although they were rather cramped, that was not a problem because the ride would only last about five minutes before we reached each destination. I found it strange as I am used to riding buses. I would climb on to the tram without paying the driver, who would sit in his little compartment at the front of the vehicle, and then we would all exit without saying “thank you.” It was all very new to me and to every one of us. Ms Dryden would even flinch as the folding doors would shove open, but of course, the local passengers took no notice of it. On the first few days of the trip we all indulged ourselves with shopping and exploring the amazing beautiful city. We visited The Melbourne Aquarium and were welcomed by penguins which looked as though they had waddled straight out of the film “Happy Feet” as they marched along their icy slice of terrain placed behind a big glass wall. I saw sharks for the first time as they swam over me as I gazed up the glass dome which held the underwater world over us. I paced along the blue-lit path which was roofed with a glass-shielded underwater world with stingrays flying all over the place. I shared my fascination with other people at my school, some of whom I had not really known very well before this trip. It was great to be able to make many new and wonderful friends. As we took on the role of tourist time had flown by, and suddenly we were on a train to a school called Matthews Flinders. We arrived after around 2 hours dressed neatly in our choir suits with our new kowhaiwhai patterned ties which Cheryl Wills had spent hours making for us, and for which we were very grateful. The ties were a special and unique addition to our choir outfits, and represented our bi-cultural heritage. Matthews Flinders School is a classic brick constructed all-girls school. After practising a few times we had lunch break and the girls of the school herded into the canteen and lunch area. I was confused by their uniform since some girls wore extremely long skirts that dragged along the floor, while some other girls wore moderately normal length skirts, while there were yet others who wore the tiniest skirts imaginable. Certainly, they would not be able to get away with that at Bayfield! The uniforms of Matthew Flinders varied between different years as well, which further confused me until some friendly girls explained it us. We taught their performing arts students Mäori songs and dance, and our choir sang, and was then followed by a Kapa Haka performance for their school. We also were involved in a joint school orchestra performance and then their school choir also performed Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb.” We enjoyed their performance and had a lot of fun. Over the next few days we became tourists again, and enjoyed a boat ride which explored the Yarra River. We were all in awe of the magnificent views of the city sky landscape, the Melbourne Stadium, as well as the contemporary style bridges that looped over the wide river. I was found sitting with friends at the stern of the boat enjoying conversation and re-enacting the well-known “Titanic” sequence and taking photos while sightseeing. The Melbourne Arts Centre was next on the list of things to explore. During this visit we entered into this very large and wide building decorated with what looked like sombreros constructed with webs of metal rods. “Beautiful isn’t it?” asked Ms Dryden as we glimpsed up at the futuristic architecture. I replied: “Well yeah... but with you in comparison...,” and immediately she laughed as she is used to my strange humour. We were then given a tour of the backstage places of the building. The inside corridor was covered with red velvet decorations and gold lined corridors. We explored a reasonably large three- quarter lavish theatre, an extremely gigantic theatre stage which was literally the size of a football field, and the second story seats, which seemed to be perched up in the sky roofed with a golden net waterfall with millions on golden balls dotted everywhere. The Arts Centre was so fascinating with its huge dressing rooms, huge rehearsal rooms, huge lounge and huge corridors. The place even had secret entrances to other rehearsal rooms hidden in a retro-entertainment lounge. It was even said by the tour guide to be haunted as he shared stories of his own ghastly experiences of hearing a noise of voices, a piano playing by itself, and even footsteps. It was a tour that left me amazed and intrigued. St Monica’s was the second school we visited. It seemed as though it were a school from USA or any expensive school shown on American television sitcoms. The uniforms were posh and neat. Every student seemed very nice and welcoming with their smiley faces as we joined them and collaborated in a joint orchestra. We felt very welcome and very impressed by their remarkable school. We performed our choir pieces and Kapa Haka pieces standing in front of the stage crowded with instruments. I stood less than a metre from the audience as we sung Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” It was very intimidating yet I maintained my nerves by thinking calmly and breathing deeply. We ended our time with them by once again teaching them Kapa Haka, and working together in a choir workshop. We all felt it was strange that there was only one male in their choir. After our time after St Monica’s we watched a show called Jersey Boys, which was a perfect, visually dynamic, and well-directed show. I was blown away by the tightness and professionalism. Many of us left the theatre singing the music with the outrageous male falsetto songs which surprised many of us, as we heard never heard such a pitch escape from a grown man performer’s voice. Next we went to Collingwood, an alternative co-educational school which allows students to express themselves with their own clothes and styles. This also goes for the teachers as well as I noticed a female teacher with grey hair, but with the whole side of her hair shaved and styled to look punk. The school was located in a place which seemed like the “ghetto” or somewhere in west Los Angeles. Locked gated metal trespassing fences lined the school grounds. We entered into the school walking through the prison-like corridors which were high with brick walls sealed with a concrete ceiling. The music department was impressive and retro with purple painted brick walls and a black stage. It was very “GLEE.” During our time setting up, I sneaked away and explored the rooms in the music department. I entered one empty classroom and was surprised as I saw touch sensitive grade A keyboards lining the whole room. This was definitely a school I would have loved to join. We performed our same items to the junior school which cheered and laughed. It was the last night before we knew it and we were ready to see our last show: Mary Poppins. The show was once again mind-blowing and unbelievably perfect and professional, with outstanding choreography of tap dances, amazing songs, and a man who walked up the side wall and danced upside down on the ceiling. There was, of course, a breath-taking finale with Mary Poppins who actually lifted herself off the stage and flew over the audience, drifting through the air, and descending in front of us holding her umbrella, before disappearing into the ceiling. Katie Xie and I laughed throughout the entire performance. To end this long article I would just like to conclude it by saying that I love Australia: I love the accents, the people, the architecture, the city, the shops, the trams, the shows and their 7/11 stores. The Melbourne Music Trip was an experience that I will never ever forget sharing, learning and discovering amazing places and things with new friends that I bonded with on the trip. I would like to thank Phillippa Hosken who is a very amazing person who organised such a great experience, as well as Viv Hepburn, Jo Dryden, Lizzie Adams, and all of the parents who supported us. Thanks also to the Bayfield teachers, Ruth Arnison, Julie Johnston, and the school community who helped with finding us sponsorship, and brought lots of chocolate and raffles off us. By Philip Keenan

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Burger Brilliance 06/09/10

Sports Development 01/09/10

Melbourne Music Trip 01/09/10