Currie Apple Fest October 22nd

We had a fantastic Currie Apple Fest on Wednesday, celebrating the coming of autumn and all the different local varieties of apples in season at the moment. 

Pupils have been cooking apple-based dishes in Health & Food Technology classes all week, including apple and cinnamon scones, apple crumble and Normandy apple flan.

The Dolphin Café served up a fantastic special menu including curried apple soup, Normandy apple chicken, cheese and apple strudel and toffee apples which all went down a treat with pupils and staff alike.

 

The foyer was busy with pupils visiting the different stalls and trying out the competitions. Lynsey Pearson in S6 created the highest apple stack at a very impressive 28cm, ably assisted by Mr Walton. Other stacks to be specially commended were Mr Banks (29.5cm but it fell down straight away), Ross Bryce S4 at 26.5cm and Mairi Mitchell S3 at 25cm.

 

 

The winning team....

 

Congratulations also to Fatima Elhag in S6 who won the competition for the longest unbroken apple peel at 83cm, with John Boyle S4 in 2^nd place with 65cm and Adelaide Munro S3 in 3^rd with 55cm.

The apple dangling competition also proved hugely popular, with the first person to successfully take a bite with no hands winning a small prize, and their apple.

 

 

Ms Stuart and the rest of the HFT department were busy juicing apples for everyone to taste fresh apple juice, courtesy of Mr Harley’s mum’s apples. 
 

 

Pupils also had the chance to learn more about the wealth of local apple varieties available in the apple tasting stall.

Many thanks to Abundance Edinburgh who donated lots of apples for our event, Soil Association Scotland for their help and prize donations, and to all the pupils and staff who made the event happen, from designing posters to bringing in apples to running a stall at lunchtime.

We hope to use apples from our own school orchard for a similar event next year!