Year 6 Career Expo - Wednesday 19 June 2019

At the beginning of the term, I did a quiz on the Careers NZ website
and discovered that some jobs might interest me are Being  a Chef
or a Person in the NZDF.

I also went to the careers expo and learned about a wide range of
careers paths that I could take. There were lots of sections about
different careers they all had presentations and booklets to give
out to us. I enjoyed this opportunity and it helped me with my
Careers presentation. 

From my Strengths Explorer Survey I discovered that my top
three strengths are Confidence, Dependability & an organizer.    

Thinking about these I decided to focus on the career of Learning
how to be a Chef.

I got information from the Careers website as well as going to the
careers expo.

I organised my information into a  Hand out pamphlet and presented
it to my classmates and the year 6 students at our Rāwhiti Career Expo
all of my pamphlets were given away. I had lots of conversations with
the year sixes. They all enjoyed coming to our class and seeing all the
career paths they could take

One thing I learned is what you need to do to become a chef and what qualifications you need to become one.

You can see my presentation on the last blog post I made.

How to become a Chef

We have been looking at careers for our inquiry this Term.

We had to do a Career quiz which asked us questions about our passions. It then gave us a list of jobs that we would enjoy. Here is the link to the site we used Career Quiz Site.

My favorite jobs that it gave me were a Chef or an Air Force Officer.

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Here is my presentation that we will be showing to the year 6's tomorrow.

Chefs normally need 1-3 years of training and past experience in a kitchen.

You could also be a chef in the Navy, Army or the Air Force

Job opportunities

At the moment the chances of getting a job as a chef are good due to shortages of qualified workers.

The qualifications to be a Chef

To become a chef you will need:

• Two - Three years, on the job apprenticeship.
  
  
• A 1 year, full-time New Zealand Certificate in Cookery - Level 3
  
  
• A 1 year, full-time New Zealand Certificate in Hospitality (Cookery) - Level 4
  
  

Useful experience

• Being a Kitchen hand
  
  
• Learning techniques from a Chef
  
  
• Hospitality experience
  
  
• Catering experience
  
  
• Bakery work
  
  

You will also need a good sense of taste and smell.
Chefs need good strength, fitness & stamina to carry heavy items, such as bulk ingredients,
and spending long hours on your feet.

As a Chef, you will

• prepare and cook food according to customer’s orders
  
  
• arrange food on plates
  
  
• design, plan and price menus
  
  
• train and supervise staff
  
  
• keep work areas clean and tidy, and keep to health and safety standards
  
  
• order food supplies and cooking equipment
  
  
• keep records of supplies
  
  

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• Skills and Knowledge
  
  
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• food preparation, cooking and food presentation skills
  
  
• knowledge of budgeting, stock management, and how to price and set up a menu
  
  
• knowledge of new developments in food nutrition, food technology and cooking methods.
  
  

Working Conditions

• usually work long hours, including evenings and weekends, and may be on call
  
  
• work in a factory, hospital or school cafeterias, restaurants, cafes, pubs and rest homes
  
  
• work in kitchens in conditions that can be hot, noisy and stressful because,
  
  

food must be prepared quickly and to high standards

• sometimes travel to food festivals and events, or to attend cooking competitions.
  
  

Wages

• Apprentice chefs would earn a minimum wage of  $37.000 a year
  
  
• Junior chefs usually earn $37.000 to $48.000 a year
  
  
• Line cooks usually earn $48.000 to $58.000 a year
  
  
• Sous Chefs usually earn $55.000 to 65.000 a year
  
  
• Head/Executive chefs can earn $65.000 to $100.000
  
  

The Day I'll Never Forget

Here is a piece of my latest piece of writing.

My next steps for this story is to start using apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, ellipses and brackets.

I would also like to get more description into my writing so it will pull the reader in more.

The day I’ll never forget was at school one day...

I was at school when the fire alarm went off at lunch break, I was in the library at the time.
The teacher in the library told us to put down our books and go out to the courts.
As I went out the door, I caught my foot on a sharp rusty nail sticking out of the ground.
I limped across to the courts with my leg dragging behind.
It was like a herd of purple zebras were charging towards the courts.
We lined up in our year groups and the teacher’s from each class called out our names one by one.

Suddenly a line of black Land Rovers with black tinted windows, broke through the metal pole
sticking up in the middle of the gate they drove onto the terf
and skidded to a halt in a cloud of dark grey dust.
All of a sudden men in black protective gear with sub-machine guns tightly
strapped to their chest jumped out of the cars and told us to line up on the road outside
the school gates. We all moved quickly out of the gates and lined up again it was really scary.

While we were lining up a stream of emergency vehicles parked on the road and blocked it up.

We could hear a loud droning noise over our heads and I looked up and saw
4 large Black Hawk Helicopters dropping down onto the front field behind the Land Rovers.
Men with black clothes and a line of words on the back saying BOMB DISPOSAL TEAM
jumped out of the helicopters and ran over to the School classroom blocks and started  
sweeping the buildings looking for the bomb. Suddenly one of them called out “the bombs
are in the roof of the classroom 4.” They all ran towards the room I could hear the stomping
footsteps of all the men. One by one they disappeared into the class.
You could hear them calling out things the whole hour they were in there.

They came out and told us that the school would be closed for the next week.

We all went home and that was the end of The Day I’ll Never Forget.