Quote of the day: Two men look out the same prison bars, one sees mud, the other sees stars – Frederick Langbridge
Today for morning class, we had a speaker - from Federation Training - come in. Her name was Yvonne McKay, and she came in to give us a Basic Food Hygiene course.
She started off the lesson by telling us about herself, her job, and then described what food safety was, and how - in Australia - the laws surrounding food safety differ in all the states and territories.
We then got into sessions about food poisoning/contamination, and the different sub categories like:
One of the most interesting activities that she got us to do was washing our hands. To show how to properly wash our hands, she got some of us to put Glitterbug Lotion on our hands and got us to try and take it off. Glitterbug is a special moisturiser which has UV responsive glitter in it. This represented bacteria. When a UV light is shone on it, the moisturiser remaining shines, which showed us if we washed all the 'germs' off our hands or not.
At the end of the lesson, we had a little test - which apparently no one could fail - and they told us that we would get a certificate at the end of the term for that course.
For afternoon class, we wrote our community agreement. This 'document' is where our most important rules are written down - what we believe we deserved, being in the community, and what responsibilities we have in order to accomplish those wishes. There were many ideas going around, and but by the end of it, we got about 10 rules that we all agreed we would follow, and enforce in our community. The teachers also told us that if they ever saw anyone breaking any of the rules in our agreement, that they will refer to it (as it will be hung up on a wall with all our names signed next to it) and remind us that we agreed to those rules.
Feedback Friday:
Written by Sam S. (My feedback buddy)
Laura did very well on Expo over the last three days. She was very good at being positive and supporting others. She was great when we had to come up with an Expo song for the group. Very good at getting her point across when we were having a group talk on what we are going do to the next day.
To work on: Make sure that you are happy as well as everyone is and keep yourself positive when you and everyone is finding it hard. When you are not sure speak up a bit more so that everyone knows that you need to understand a bit more.
Well done and I had so much fun with you!!
Today for morning class, we had a speaker - from Federation Training - come in. Her name was Yvonne McKay, and she came in to give us a Basic Food Hygiene course.
She started off the lesson by telling us about herself, her job, and then described what food safety was, and how - in Australia - the laws surrounding food safety differ in all the states and territories.
We then got into sessions about food poisoning/contamination, and the different sub categories like:
- Physical - when any foreign objects are found in food (e.g. band-aids, glass, hair)
- Chemical - this can be found with naturally poisonous foods (rhubarb leaves), pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers, heavy metals, and cleaning products.
- Micro-organisms - Bacteria, viruses, mould and yeasts (e.g. when the cook has a cold and sneezes on the food, when the cook's hands aren't clean)
- Cross-contamination - Contamination from one source, being transferred onto another (e.g. raw vegetables being cut on the same surface area as raw meats)
- Green: for fruits and vegetables
- Brown: for cooked meats
- White: for dairy products and bread
- Blue: for seafood
- Yellow: for poultry
- Red: for raw meats
One of the most interesting activities that she got us to do was washing our hands. To show how to properly wash our hands, she got some of us to put Glitterbug Lotion on our hands and got us to try and take it off. Glitterbug is a special moisturiser which has UV responsive glitter in it. This represented bacteria. When a UV light is shone on it, the moisturiser remaining shines, which showed us if we washed all the 'germs' off our hands or not.
At the end of the lesson, we had a little test - which apparently no one could fail - and they told us that we would get a certificate at the end of the term for that course.
For afternoon class, we wrote our community agreement. This 'document' is where our most important rules are written down - what we believe we deserved, being in the community, and what responsibilities we have in order to accomplish those wishes. There were many ideas going around, and but by the end of it, we got about 10 rules that we all agreed we would follow, and enforce in our community. The teachers also told us that if they ever saw anyone breaking any of the rules in our agreement, that they will refer to it (as it will be hung up on a wall with all our names signed next to it) and remind us that we agreed to those rules.
Feedback Friday:
Written by Sam S. (My feedback buddy)
Laura did very well on Expo over the last three days. She was very good at being positive and supporting others. She was great when we had to come up with an Expo song for the group. Very good at getting her point across when we were having a group talk on what we are going do to the next day.
To work on: Make sure that you are happy as well as everyone is and keep yourself positive when you and everyone is finding it hard. When you are not sure speak up a bit more so that everyone knows that you need to understand a bit more.
Well done and I had so much fun with you!!
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