Ms Fallon's Transition Year students were busy whipping up some delicious cupcakes today...don't they look YUMMY??!!

More pictures to follow.......

Craftwork

Craft work   3rd Year

Third year craft work students have just 3 weeks left to complete their craft project..!!!!.....keep up the good work and don't forget to go to craft club!

Craft club times
Monday No craftclub
Tuesday 4:15pm
Wednesday 8:10am
Thursday 8:10am

Friday 8:10am

H.E. Dept

October Tests

Next week year 5 and 6 will complete thier mid-term tests.


Year 5 : Home Economics Test will be on Wednesday 5th October



Year 6 : Home Economics Test will be on Monday 3rd October

FASHION SHOW     !!!!

We will be having another WESLEY COLLEGE FASHION SHOW this year!

Thursday March 8th 2010!!!

More information to follow!!


H.E. Dept.

The Wesley Weekly Recipe

Its September and its gotten quite cold already so its nice to enjoy a comforting bowl of pasta. Spinach is in season, its packed with Iron, important for healthy blood and preventing anaemia. Check out this tasty recipe!



Spinach fiorelli with gammon and mascarpone
By Lindsey Bareham
Serves 2


Prep: 10 min


Cook: 15 min


150g fiorelli or other frilly egg pasta
50g young spinach
1 trimmed leek, approx 100g
25g butter
1 tbsp olive oil
1 gammon steak, approx 150g
2 tbsp mascarpone
2 tbsp grated Parmesan
1 lemon
Method
Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling water according to packet instructions – about 10 minutes – adding the spinach for the last minute of boiling. Drain, return to the pan and toss with half the butter, 1 tbsp Parmesan and 1/2 tbsp mascarpone.


Meanwhile, trim the leek and slice into pennies about 1cm wide. Agitate in a bowl of cold water, drain and shake dry. Melt half the remaining butter with 1 tbsp olive oil in a frying or sauté pan over a medium-low heat. Stir in the leek, season generously with salt, stir again, cover the pan and leave to soften for 5 minutes. Slice the gammon into strips about 4cm x 1cm. Stir the gammon into the leeks, toss around in the buttery juices for a couple of minutes until all the pieces have changed colour and cooked through. Stir the contents of the pan into the pasta. Serve scattered with Parmesan, a dollop of mascarpone and a lemon wedge to squeeze over the top.


The Times November 16, 2007.

Watch the spot

Hi Home Ec people!

Week one is over now and it feels like we were never away!! We have a busy term ahead so keep checking out this blog to find out what's happening in The Home Ec Dept! From now on we will have lots of exciting features included on the blog.
Some things to watch out for are.......

1. The Wesley Weekly Recipe
2. Home Ec study tips
3. "Home Ec loves this website" featuring interesting HE related website that we've found for you
4. "Home Ec ALERT" with reminders of events or dates for HE students
5. "Home Ec Helper" featuring advice about HE topics or homework

Of course we'll continue to report on all the great work being done by our creative chefs,cooks, designers and enthusiastic craftspeople too. So watch this space for lots of photos and useful topics all about Home Ec! As always, we welcome your suggestions and ideas. You can post a comment on this blog or chat to any of the Home Ec teachers.

-The Home Ec Department
(Mrs O'Doherty, Mrs Burns, Ms. Lynch, Ms. Fallon & Ms.O'Donoghue)

Leaving Certificate Home Economics

Congratulations!!!

Well done to all our leaving certificate students who recently achieved very good grades in L.C. Home Economics. We wish you all the very best of luck in your future studies or careers.

The Home Economics Dept.

Reminders!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi to all our Home Ec Students!

Hope you are all having a great summer break. Just over two weeks left now so make the most of your free time!

This is just a gentle reminder to all the students going into Third Year. We are about to start the craftwork project and need to have the materials ready on return to school on the 29th August. If you have any queries write them here on the blog and I'll do my best to respond promptly.

In case your parents have a lot of expense at this time of year remember that you can always recycle materials you have at home, particularly if it's 100% cotton. This is HOME ECONOMICS after all!!!

See you in Wesley soon!!

Regards,
Ms. Fallon

Under development for the Summer

Its the end of another school year and we'd like to wish all the Junior and Leaving Certificate students the very best of luck in their forthcoming examinations!

To all the other students...enjoy the school holidays and come back energised and ready for another great school year!!

This blog will be under development in the coming months so if you've any suggestions or ideas for the Wesley College Home Economics blog 2011/12 please write your comments below.

The HE Dept.

TY Fashion Design

The new fashion recruits from Transition Year have been really busy so far this term!  Their first 'Project Runway' assignment was to design an outfit using newspaper and bin bags!  They only had 45 minutes to do this and then they modelled their creations!!  The final designs were really creative and blew everyone away!

Then the designers got to work on their inspiration and theme for their 'real' project!  They each created a mood board with fabric swatches, pictures, sketches and trimmings.  They all have purchased their pattern and fabric and are ready to move on to actually making an outfit!