Boonah State High School 2024 Paddock to Plate | Queensland Country Life
Boonah students showcase hands-on skills in agriculture, engineering, and culinary arts.
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00:00Welcome to the 2024 Brenner State High School Paddock to Play.
00:09Come along with us as we take you through the behind the scenes of what goes into this
00:12event.
00:13We hope you enjoy your night.
00:18This year what we're doing is we're using the program to support students to develop
00:24their ability to access the curriculum, their recording data, their weighing the chickens,
00:29they're completing these projects using assistive technologies.
00:33Take them out and we weigh them and then we go back to the library and use text-to-speech
00:38and speech-to-text.
00:39Mainly a lot to do with the meat production of cattle and all the different cuts of meat.
00:48Well especially a lot of connections in the industry as well as you can go anywhere really
00:56a lot of networking is involved in the cattle club.
00:59Well it's opened up a heap of things like knowing how to judge a steer, characteristics
01:05of how he looks and how his body is.
01:09So everything that you see tonight from the menus to the coasters, this video, the jam
01:15jars and everything, that was done as part of our assessment.
01:19This year I've had a very enjoyable experience learning how to use the Adobe apps.
01:24I really enjoyed filming for part of the 2024 Paddock to Plate video.
01:29So I really love this assessment like it was more like student driven and everything and
01:33it's giving us like real life experience to when we move out of school we'll actually
01:38be able to do and use these components that we've learned.
01:44Paddock to Plate is an opportunity for us to grow and produce crops for us to put into
01:49an event for Ag Industries.
01:51We got our cattle in and started doing a feeding trial to get their weight up and used
01:56to the area and this term and the last term we started planting our crops.
02:01I think it's good because like for where we live and everything we're out in a rural community.
02:08It brings people together in such a small town, you get to mingle with new people and
02:13it really it's like a show stopper, you put it out and you put yourself out there.
02:20I like doing engineering in Ag because it provides something in a practical aspect that
02:25I can go on later on with.
02:26Well seeing what needs to be done over in Ag and being able to come back into the workshop
02:32and do what you need to do.
02:35I want to be a station hand and being able to do fences and all that, welding them all
02:40together is good life experience that I will use.
02:46I think it's really important that the kids here understand that art is a part of life.
02:52It's not just a separate thing.
02:54Pots were actually made here at school out of clay, so when you finish using the pot
02:59you'll see and empty it out, there'll be a decoration down the bottom.
03:04I asked if I could donate an artwork.
03:08The cows were really interested in what I was doing so I feel like I've captured that
03:14in James and we also are involved in the Sunflower Festival and have sunflowers in the school
03:20as well so I'd like to sort of put that into the piece as well.
03:26So I've been in Coffee and Cows where we get the chance and opportunity to make coffee
03:31for everyone who likes to come down, see the cattle, have a nice chat down at the Ag patch
03:38and yeah it's just really fun.
03:40I've enjoyed it because it's given me a great opportunity to learn great barista skills
03:44and it's also given me a job at Arthur Clives.
03:50I'm building a vertical expansion for the hydroponic set up in the greenhouse.
03:56We'll grow some most likely lettuce or strawberries.
04:00This is for Paddock to Play so that the school can produce its own produce.
04:06Paddock to Play is a function where we use different products from around the school
04:12and the scenic route.
04:13It gives us hands on experience and teaches us the different ways on how food can be used.
04:18Elliot is a head chef at Karumba Winery.
04:22It's good for him to come in with his professional approach towards the whole function.
04:27This will allow us to have a better approach to the food industry.
04:31I guess it's giving back to the school.
04:33Obviously being an ex-student here, we as students when we were here we didn't have this opportunity.
04:40It's great to kind of give something back and a bit of an in world experience.
04:45The weeks before it's very much kind of getting into that small crawl stage
04:53and then the week before it's like alright we're on big time.
04:56This is the second year of Paddock to Play and the students are just exceeding expectations every year.
05:02As you can see a lot of hard work goes into this event from both staff and students across the school.
05:07We hope you enjoyed your night and see you next year.