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Around the Schools
It is fabulous to see so much activity within schools making Hospitality FUN and realistic for our students.
Click here to see regional schools updates, from Northern to Southern regions.
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Moderation 2011
As you will be aware, 2010 was the first time all Schools were moderated external to the cluster group workshops. This provided some invaluable information as to the areas where improvements could be made to assessment – both resources and practices; and also identified some good practices happening out there.
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New Cookery Talent at Hospitality ITO
New member Warren Bias was welcomed to the HSI Board by Carol Stigley, chair of the Hospitality Standards Institute (HSI).
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Students make culinary delights
Gastronomic delights of the sweet and savoury kind were on show at Southland Boys' High School last month, for the annual Southland Secondary Schools' Cooking Competitions.
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Kitchen whizzkid shares her wisdom
Claire Gourley reckons she's just an average teenager. The 17-year-old is still at school and loves playing sport, going to the movies and hanging out with her friends. But there aren't many teens on a crusade to get their peers to learn basic cooking skills, and even fewer who have a cookbook, website and videos devoted to their cause.
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Find Colin!
HSI is running a special promotion, open to hospitality secondary school students, as an incentive to enter The Great New Zealand Vegetable Dish competition.
Poster will be sent to schools and we encourage teachers to advise their students. Every teacher who had a student entering the competition will go in the draw to win a $100 restaurant Association voucher.
Click here to request copies of the poster
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Get inspired with cauliflower
Here are some cauliflower recipes to help your students get started for The Great New Zealand Vegetable Dish competition. Just click on the links below, there are over 300 different recipes available!
Indobase website
BBC Good Food website
Just vegetables website
The Guardian website - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's recipes
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Product pricing updates
Basic Food Safety COA
The Reporting Form for the Basic Food Safety COA incorrectly shows an additional $10 certificate fee. Please note, there is no extra charge for COA certificates; the cost is included in the overall price of $32.
Note: The price for COA packs was increased in January 2011 from $30 to $32 as part of the GST increase updates.
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Foundation Skills Domain – changed version numbers
Following the review of the Hospitality Operations unit standards in June 2009, all level 1 Hospitality unit standards across domains Accommodation Services, Cookery, Food and Beverage Service, and Hospitality Operations were moved to new domain of Hospitality – Foundation Skills.
This move increased the version numbers for all affected units, but the content remains the same.
KAMAR will automatically report the newest version of a unit, but the previous versions are still valid and correct. Contact your NZQA representative to adjust the version number for reporting.
Click here to view the full review summary.
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Cookery Schools 2 Integrated Assessment
In January this year, HSI launched the Integrated Assessment for the Cookery Schools 2 COA (Edition 4). The integrated assessment was designed to reduce the overall amount of individual assessing, paperwork and the need for separate re-assessments.
The combination of recipes selected spreads the requirements for assessment across the dishes and allows for naturally occurring evidence of complimentary units to be collected at the same time.
The main points of difference are less recipes; workplans and theory questions, food safety and knife skills are integrated into the cooking assessments and checklists, and the assessment of range items is spread across recipes.
We have put together some suggestions for ways to use the Edition 4 assessment that will help you adapt it to your needs.
(contact your Schools Advisor for further information if required)
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Cookery Schools 2 COA - Entry prerequisite
The prerequisite to COA Cookery Schools 2 is unit 167 - Practice food safety methods in a food businesses.
Prerequisite Information for Unit Standards
For all unit standards which have a prerequisite unit standard listed which states ‘unit standard xxx..or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills’, it is a requirement that the candidate has the required knowledge and skills and could complete the assessment of the prerequisite by recognition of prior learning.
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National Culinary Fare
17 - 19 July 2011 | ASB Showgrounds, Auckland
HSI 2011 Modern Apprentice of the year competition will be held at the Culinary Fare on 19 July.
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The Great New Zealand Vegetable Dish
HSI, in partnership with Vegetables.co.nz, is pleased to invite New Zealand schools to enter our 2011 cooking competition, ‘The Great New Zealand Vegetable Dish – an HSI Junior Hospitality Challenge Special.
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NZ Chefs Association - Wellington Culinary Masterclass
Sunday 24th July
You will be entertained with a full day of culinary seminars, experience a wonderful seafood and champagne luncheon, cook book signings, cupcakes, chocolate, and lashing of tastings from Wellingtons finest Chefs.
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4098 HSI Assessor Courses
Teachers that are assessing HSI unit standards must hold or be working towards holding unit 4098.
Click here to see course dates and register
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2011 Interactive Learning Workshop
November 2011
HSI has identified a need to provide some learning sessions about assessment and moderation practices.
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