7 September 2023 12:00 am Views - 1364
Rev. Fr. Ranjith Andradi, the Rector of St. Joseph’s College, Colombo 10 and Rev. Fr. Priyan S.Tissera, the Principal of the Primary School with young Josephian chefs
Learning cooking skills as a skill is a great choice for anyone. It helps us increase our knowledge of different cuisines and flavours around the world. Becoming more aware of how meals are constructed means you will pay more attention to what you eat, which will result in smarter, more delicious and healthy choices.
Cooking teaches critical thinking, collaboration and creativity. Cooking is a life skill and supports Maths, Science, Language, Social Emotional Development, Physical Development and Cognitive Development.
In these contexts, the students of Grade 05 of the Primary School of St. Joseph’s College, Colombo 10 organized a food festival recently at the College Premises.
This idea was the brainchild of Rev. Fr. Ranjith Andradi, the Rector of St. Joseph’s College, Colombo 10 and it was arranged by Rev. Fr. Priyan S. Tissera, the Principal of the Primary School, the Class Teachers and the subject Teachers in the Grade 05 section.
The students wore the attire of a chef. Attired with the apron and the chef’s hat as original chefs children in each class had dressed in different colours and named themselves accordingly, red the “Master Chefs”, blue the “Cooking Monsters”, yellow the “Ceylon Chefs”, green the “Cooking Busters”, orange the “King Cooks”, purple the “Captain Cooks” and pink the “Fine Chefs”.
While the students were busy making the food items there was Chef Charitha Anuradha, Chef Piyatissa Silva from Vertical by Jetwing, also Mr. Kanishka Kulathunga the General Manager of Verticle by Jetwing was present. Chef Sudamika Bandara the Executive Sous-chef from Cinnamon Grand Hotel and Chef Kingsly Weerasinghe the Executive Pastry Chef and Chef Upul Malawarachchi the Sous-chef from Kingsbury Hotel were present.
When all classes completed the task of making the food items they presented it in a common high tea platter. The veteran Chefs chose the Winner, 1st Runner-up and the 2nd Runner-up.
The 2nd Runner-up were the students of Grade 5 S6 they were known as “Captain Cook” the 1st Runner-up were the students of Grade 5 S5 known as “Cooking Monsters” and the “Winners were the “Ceylon Chefs”, the students of Grade 5 S2” who made the food items with the traditional ingredients namely cutlets made of polos, pancakes with pani pol, mango juice etc. The grand finale ended with the awards ceremony.