planning our biscuits on the 19th

On the 19th of November Brigshaw stem club planned their biscuits.
The choices were few and far between, everyone wanted something different.
Our choices were either a moulded biscuit, a shortbread biscuit or a cookie type biscuit .
Some of the choices included a cone shaped biscuit with cream and chocolate and possibly jam or fruit in the middle. In the last week of the school term we shall be presenting our biscuits to three judges as well as a presentation on market sales etc. On of the judging panel is Paul from Fox's biscuits. Good luck every one !

posted by Dan.Davis

Cooking day, 2nd trial

Today, we all started to bake our first trial of our biscuit project, everyone had a different biccy to make and some of the groups had really nice biccs. Ms Restrick (CRK) also came in and helped us when we were making the biccies, big thanks to Ms Restrick.

After we made our biscuits, we started to think about production, we tried to change our production line from "fish cakes" (oh the irony) to our biccies, some of it we had to keep like storage, cooking and detectors but some like boilers and salmon guillotine we scrapped.

Finally, we have got to try the biccies, I thought they all were good and thankfully all of them tasted better than....lard.

I hope every one's project goes according to plan!

By Alex

Fox's Biscuit Factory!

On Wednesday 18th (yesterday), most of STEM club visited Fox's Biscuit Factory in Batley, as part of our biscuit project we are doing until christmas.

During the amazing trip, we had the opportunity to learn about how biscuits were mass produced. This was really helpful to us because in our project we have to design and produce a new biscuit, so of course we needed some inspiration and guidance!

The day started off with a brief introduction on the history of Fox's, then we all got dressed up in our safety clothing (and the occasional beard snood!), ready for our tour.

We all found the tour very interesting, we followed a few production lines all the way from weighing the ingredients out in huuuuge mixers, to seeing them boxed ready to go to supermarkets. Some of us described it as 'How it's Made, only better!' We couldn't belive how great the technology was!

We got loads of ideas as to how to make our biscuits, what kind of ingredients and how our packaging should look, and the various different types of biscuits that were out there.

Thanks to Fox's Biscuits, Richard,Steve and Paul, who managed to get nearly all our questions answered, and were a lot of fun, and taught us a lot!

Also a big thankyou to Miss.Wigglesworth and Mr. White for putting up with us!

But most of all, on behalf of STEM, thank you so much Mr. Wayman for organising this trip! We know it took a lot of effort, and we were very sad that you couldnt come, but thank you so much for giving us this amazing oppertunity to go to Fox's!


By Miffy ( new-ish STEM member)

PS. Wasn't the balloon artist bus driver randomly amazing!!??