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Cakes, Other Food Items For SBA
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A number of students at Campus A of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School have submitted various food preparations for their practical work in the upcoming CXC exams.
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One of the display tables at the Home Management Centre
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According to Food & Nutrition Teacher, Bernice Fahie-Richardson, the year 5 students’ work is for a School-Based Assessment (SBA) which is graded by the local teachers who then send the marks to the Caribbean Examination Council for final grading. “This is their third or final SBA and the students have been grouped, given a question to interpret, asked to do a practical and then present it,” she explained. “We have a mark scheme which CXC has sent which we follow to grade them.” Their work was for the Food & Nutrition SBA practical.
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Mrs. Fahie-Richardson supervising students
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Other students submitted practical work for the Final Home Management SBA, conducted by Teacher Charmaine Rey-Richardson. One of them was Curlee Gumbs, another year 5 student. She submitted an extraordinary cake fashioned like a bridal gown trimmed with hand and brush embroidery made of fondant or sugar paste.
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Kathleen Brooks with Curlee Gumbs SBA cake
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It was created with the assistance of Kathleen Brooks, of North Side, who lived and worked in the hospitality and food service business in Tortola for 30 years. She returned to Anguilla in September 2005 and is continuing to do her “Myrtle Delicious Designs”. The cake attracted much attention at the school’s Home Economics Centre.
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Student Curlee Gumbs
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Minister of Education, Evans Rogers, who was on a familiarisation tour of the school, accompanied by his Permanent Secretary, Rodney Rey, a former Principal, was impressed with the work of the students. He said they were looking at the problems and positives of the school. One of the positives was certainly the fine array of food tables done by the students for their SBAs.