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10 June 2021
Smithton High School’s Rustic Duck cafe provides a valuable opportunity for students to pick up experience in a working kitchen while working towards a qualification.
The cafe first opened its doors in 2018 and has been well supported by classes of passionate students since then.
Trainer Kim Muller guides students through Certificate II in Hospitality as the year wears on, closing the cafe for the final term as students complete the theory aspect of their assessments as well as completing 35 hours of work placement.
“An environment like this is ideal because students need experience in a commercial kitchen as part of the course, previously we had been using the [Smithton Recreation Ground],” she explained.
Foz in the Radio Orwell newsroom
- Credit: Stephen Foster
It was a summer s day in my hometown of Ipswich. The year 1982. The location The Great White Horse Hotel. Unbeknown to me, it was the day that changed my life.
Chris Opperman, the recently appointed programme organiser at Ipswich s commercial station Radio Orwell, and his news editor Andy Kluz had asked me to join them for a lunchtime meeting at a place in Suffolk s county town long associated with the author Charles Dickens.
A fresh-faced Foz reading the news
- Credit: Stephen Foster
I had no great expectations of what was to come, just high hopes that they might have some more freelance work for me. Up until that point I d been heavily involved in the Sunday evening teenagers magazine Platform, a role I d combined with a bit of tape reclaiming and coffee making on a Tuesday night.