Congratulations to Judith Ryles (HEIA[V]) who was recently awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) on Australia Day for her service to the community of Melbourne.

Judith's long history of service to the community includes:

• Deputy Chairman, Ursula Hoff Institute Inc.
• Co-founder of the Ursula Hoff Scholarships, University of Melbourne
• Co-founder of the Ursula Hoff Scholarship, University College, Melbourne  
• Honorary Acting Treasurer, National Council of Women, Melbourne
• Honorary Treasurer, Home Economics Institute of Australia
• Member of Animal Ethics Committees, University of Melbourne
• Member La Trobe Society Committee, Melbourne
• President of Friends of the Elms Inc. Melbourne and now Administrative Assistant
• Founding member, Felton Society, National Gallery of Victoria
• Founding member, Redmond Barry Society, State Library of Victoria
• Founding member, The Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.

This prestigious award acknowledges Judith's decades of pro bono work on behalf of those and other groups in the Melbourne community.

In her capacity as home economist, Judith has been involved in education and with the various professional associations of home economics at state, national and international levels. Judith is still currently an active member on the HEIA(V) committee of management.

Judith has given generously of her talents in a quiet and unassuming way. Her passion, dedication and commitment to the various areas over many years has been inspirational.

HEIA and the home economics community warmly congratulates Judith on her prestigious award.

 

 

 

2015 is shaping up to be an exciting year for HEIA members, and one new benefit for members is that they will receive  more timely news, delivered more often in their inbox! HEIA is thrilled to announce its inaugural digital newsletter editor, Nikki Boswell.  Don't worry, if you are one of the few members without  an email address as Nikki will make sure you get a hard copy of each newsletter. 

Nikki bring with her a unique set of skills and attributes that will be advantageous as HEIA's digital newsletter editor. Her excellent written communication skills are impressive - she has written a range of documents for numerous not-for-profit organisations, including the Australian Health Promotion Association and the Public Health Association of Australia. Nikki also had exhibited extensive skills in stakeholder liaison, and has skills in the use of website software, both of which will be invaluable as the digital newsletter editor.

Nikki is passionate about health and wellbeing - she has a strong background in nutrition, physical education, adult education, community development, health promotion and public health, and is currently undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching (Secondary, Health and Physical Education and Home Economics),

With Nikki on board as HEIA's new digital newsletter editor, HEIA is looking forward to a new phase in its communication with you as members of  HEIA.  Members are encouraged to email Nikki directly if they have news they with to share with members. newsletter@heia.com.au

Wool4School is a real-life fashion design  experience tailored for the classroom, with big rewards available for both students and teachers. The 2015 competition is now open.

The competition is open to students in Years 7 - 11. It sets the challenge to design an original outfit made from one of the world's most innovative and natural fibre - Australian Merino wool - and go in the runnng to win part of $10 000 worth of prizes.

The 2015 theme is Live Life, Love Wool. The challenge is for students to design an outfit which not only reflects their style but also the perfect winter outfit suitable for New York City, Tokyo, Paris, Moscow or New Delhi.

You need to just design the outfit (not make it!) The options are endless as you have five decades to select from. Each piece is to include at least 80 per cent of Merino wool.

This year's Wool4School competition invites Year 11 students to take part, with the winner gaining one week's internship with The Woolmark Company and Girlfriend Magazine to help kickstart a career in fashion design.

Teachers who register will be sent a free teacher resource pack tailored for their class, which include:

• lesson plans
• units of work
• interactive teacher resources
• free fabric samples and a Wool4School resource kit which come with valuable information
• Australian Curriculum links
• online videos and training material

Key dates

31 October 2014: Registration opens

31 May 2015: Registrations close

1 June 2015: Submissions open

16 July 2015: Submissions close (Year 7 & 8)

23 July 2015: Submissions close (Year 9 & 10)

30 July 2015: Submissions close (Year 11)

26 August 2015: Winners announced

 

Ellen Morrow HEIA(WA) was presented with the Australian Professional Teachers' Association's national prize for the Early Teacher's Award in Melbourne over the weekend. Ellen is pictured above with her husband at the Award's ceremony.

The prize recognises the contribution made to a professional association by teachers who have been teaching for up to five years. Ellen is HEIA(WA)'s journal editor, and as HEIA(WA)'s President Lyn Dymond exclaimed 'Over here in the West, we are very proud of Ellen's achievements and thought that all of HEIA might like to share her success!' ....and we could not agree more with Lyn! Congratulations Ellen on your well-deserved achievements - we certainly are proud of your marvellous work and your wonderful promotion of home economics.  Well done.

 

Congratulations to Morayfield State High School from Queensland, national winner of the 2014 McCormick Foods Australia and HEIA Flavour Forecast recipe challenge!

After hours of judging, including ensuring the collection of four recipes met the design brief as well as recipe testing to ensure flavoursome dishes, the following schools were also announced as state winners:

NSW/ACT: Hornsby Girls High School

SA/NT: Naracoorte High School

Qld: Morayfield State High School

WA: South Coast Baptist College

Vic/Tas: Oatlands District High School.

A wonderful array of delicious dishes addressing the 2014 Flavour Forecast trends - Chilli Obsession, Modern Masala, Clever Compact Cooking, Mexican World Tour and Charmed by Brazil - were created. 

 

It was a close competition, with many innovative and creative dishes addressing the Flavour Forecast, and teachers and students from around Australia should be proud of their achievements. Two of the dishes from Morayfield State High School are depicted on this page - how delicious do they look?

Check out the previous post for photos of the judging process - well  done to all schools and students that participated...great effort!

Did your students enter the McCormick Foods Australia/HEIA Flavour Forecast recipe competition? Entries from all states and territories were received, and over the past few weeks the judging of these entries has been happening. With so many entries, it has been quite a time-consuming task. Check out some of the activities in the photos below.

The initial round of judging sorted through all the entries to ensure that the recipes met the requirements of the design brief. Were there four original recipes that were inspired by the 2014 Flavour Forecast report? Were two to three supporting photos of each dish provided? Was a costings breakdown provided for each recipe? Was there only one discretionary dish in each set of recipes? The judges were very impressed with the quality of the entries and laboured over the decision-making process to create a shortlist. 

Chilli Obsession, Modern Masala, Clever Compact Cooking, Mexican World Tour and Charmed by Brazil are this year's flavour trends that have influence the creation of many mouth-watering dishes that were prepared in the McCormick Test Kitchen this week. With winners being announced on 18 November, we are sure there are many very excited students waiting for the results. We wish you all the very best.

HEIA(V) invites you to attend its

Planning from the Australian Curriculum - A practical workshop for home economics teachers 

Overview of the workshop

Following a recap of the key points of the Australian Curriculum documents as they pertain to home economics teachers planning from the Australian Curriculum, the workshop will guide participants through a process for planning at two levels. At one level, it will consider how to develop an overall suite of units for the Home Economics faculty to offer, and at another level, how to develop home economics units of work based on The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education and The Australian Curriculum: Technologies. In their planning, participants will explore the demands of the curriculum, also taking into account Victoria-specific demands. Templates, ideas and other tools to assist in the process will be provided.

What to bring

Copies of The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education, and The Australian Curriculum: Technologies. They are available using the links below for your convenience:

• Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education
 
• Australian Curriculum: Technologies

About the presenters

Dr Janet Reynolds has a background in home economics education. She has taught in government and non-government schools in Australia, Papua New Guinea and England, has lectured at QUT and been a consultant to the Fiji and Sri Lankan governments on home economics teacher education.
Jan’s qualifications include a Diploma in Teaching (Home economics), a Bachelor of Education, Masters of Educational Studies and PhD in nutrition education. Jan is the convenor of the Education Standing Committee for the Home Economics Institute of Australia and represented HEIA on the ACARA national panels for HPE and for Technologies.

Leanne Compton also has a background in home economics education. Leanne is the Curriculum Manager, Design and Technologies at the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. She has taught primary and secondary students in a range of regional and metropolitan schools, and also lectured at both RMIT and Deakin universities. Leanne represented HEIA on the ACARA Technologies Panel.

Workshop details

Date: Saturday 15 November 2014

Time: 9.00 - 3.00 pm (9.00 am - 9.15 am registration for 9.30 am start)

Where: The Melbourne Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth Street (opposite Queen Victoria Market)

Lunch: included

Cost: HEIA member $50.00; Non-member $90.00; Full-time tertiary student  are free

Special offer: Non-members joining on day: $150 ($110 membership + $40.00 workshop); 

Schools joining on day: $330 + $40.00 per person attending (this membership can include up to six staff).

Contact: Carolyn Paulin cpaulin@corplink.com.au or Jenny McComb jenny.mccomb@bigpond.com

Home economics teachers are invited to participate in a survey 'Food literacy at secondary schools in Australia'. A PhD research project is being undertaken through Griffith University that explores home economics teachers' perceptions regarding food literacy at secondary schools in Australia.

The researchers invite teachers to take part in a short online survey that takes approximately 10-15 minutes. It will involve answering questions about your understanding of food literacy, how it is taught in your school and your confidence and attitude around food literacy. Survey answers will remain anonymous. Participants are invited to enter a prize draw to win one of five $50 Coles/Myer gift vouchers.

To take part in this survey, you will need to click on the survey link:

 https://prodsurvey.rcs.griffith.edu.au/foodliteracy

For further information or to speak to a member of the research team, please contact Rimante Vaitkeviciute on the contact details provided below. 

 

Rimante Vaitkeviciute, PhD Candidate Student Researcher School of Medicine Gold Coast campus Griffith University QLD 4222 Australia Ph: (07) 555 27903 E-mail: rimante.vaitkeviciute@griffithuni.edu.au

Neil Harris, A/Prof Chief Investigator School of Medicine Gold Coast campus Griffith University QLD 4222 Australia Ph: (07) 555 27879 E-mail: n.harris@griffith.edu.au

Register your school for Oxfam's Eat Local Feed Global.

It is about something that we all love...food! Well, food security to be exact. Host a lunchtime Hunger Banquet at your school to support Eat Local Feed Global this October to five your students a first-hand experience of the inequalities inherent in our food system.

It's fun, thought-provoking and interactive project for students of all ages to learn about the causes of global hunger, how local action can have a global impact, and the role we can all play in helping ensure everyone has enough to eat.

How the Hunger Banquet works?

Students are divided into groups representing high-, middle- and low-income regions of the globe, to receive a lunch experience they will never forget. Your Hunger Banquet can be as big or as small as you like, involving a year-level or the whole school.

'Many students were annoyed by the lack of their usual midday meal, but because of this began to discuss the issue and grasped a real awareness of the problem... We can strive to make this world hunger free. This was the true point of the day, to not only show the hardships of what people have to deal with every day but make the school community realise we have an obligation to do something.'  Thomas Leadbetter and  Matthew Hall, Yr 11, Ballarat Grammar

Register now at www.oxfam.org.au/elfg  to receive a free resource pack from Oxfam. the pack will help students plan, organise and run their own event, and discover why one in eight people still go hungry every day.

The pack includes the Eat Local Feed Global 'ho to' guide for students with tips and ideas, posters, stories from the field, a DVD and other goodies. Oxfam's resources are easy-to-use, inspire discussion and reflection in creative ways, and balance the challenges posed with solutions an actions.

Above all, the resources support you every step of the way to make sure your students' Hunger Banquet is a success. In return, you will be supporting Oxfam's GROW campaign, which helps alleviate hunger in neighbouring countries like the Philippines, Timor Leste and Vanuatu.

Register today at www.oxfam.org.au/elfg to make sure your students are at the forefront of hte movement to end hunger. For further information, please contact Annalise De Mel, Schools Program Coordinator at Oxfam Australia via annalisedm@oxfam.org.au or 03 9289 93390.