Helping Those In Need and Working as a Team

Our Year 11 VCAL students have been busily planning and preparing meals for the Geelong Food Relief charity as their major project in Semester 2 Personal Development Skills. They were given the task of helping those in our community who need a little extra support and they decided to help by planning and preparing meals in our GHS Foods room. They wrote and sent off sponsorship letters to local businesses with Coles Leopold accepting their proposal idea, a huge thank you to Mark in particular who is the store manager. They were also set the challenge or preparing each cooking session with a total budget of $50 to prepare 25 take away food container sized meals. So far the class has prepared, cooked and donated 31 containers of fried rice and penne carbonara and vegetables with another 25 planned for next week as their final week of cooking. We also had extra vegetables supplied via a donation to the Feed Me Surf Coast to supplement the pasta. Everyone involved in the sessions should be proud of their efforts from brainstorming ideas, writing letters, creating shopping lists and creating working to a budget, to leading the class cooking sessions, to being the last person to finish sweeping and wiping down the cooking room. We hope those in need in our local Geelong community can continue to benefit from the amazing service Geelong Food Relief provide and a few tasty meals provided by our Year 11 VCAL students. A huge congratulations to you all, I am proud of you all.

Mr. Reusch

VCAL Teacher