Right here in Melbourne you can learn to make your own essentials of French gastronomy and culture and even pass on these skills to your students.
The AFTV takes pleasure in offering AFTV Members only the opportunity to attend one of the 3 French gastronomy classes below at a date of your choice (throughout 2024) and receive a subsidy of $50 on submission to the AFTV treasurer: treasurer@aftv.vic.edu.au of a paid invoice and a completed claim form.
Classes run on both week days and weekends and run for 5-6 hours @ $200 pp.
Where ? Gourmet Kitchen, 14 Margaret Street Moonee Ponds
When? Check the website calendar for further details and to make your booking
Who? Laura Jane will be your teacher (trained by French Pâtissiers )
What? All pâtisserie recipes follow the traditional French method.
Cost? $200 (minus $50 AFTV subsidy)
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1. Pâtisserie Masterclass: Macarons, Pastries & Fillings
Learn to make macarons, tarts, éclairs and profiteroles covering around 10 different recipes including choux pastry, shortcrust and chocolate shortcrust pastry.
2. Pâtisserie Masterclass: Mousse cakes, Caramels, Coulis & Macarons
Create exquisite Mousse Cakes filled with delicious fillings and learn some secrets to glazing and decorating, covering around 10 different recipes.
3. Pâtisserie Masterclass: Croissants
This class is designed so you learn each stage in detail packed into the 5 hour masterclass.
At the end of the class you will take home your own batch of croissants (plain, pain au chocolat, almond, ham & cheese and palmiers) as well as the batch of dough you made to take home to rest and roll out the following day.
Croissants Plus | AFTV and Gourmet Kitchen
Right here in Melbourne you can learn to make your own essentials of French gastronomy and culture and even pass on these skills to your
students.
The AFTV takes pleasure in offering AFTV Members the opportunity to attend one of 3 classes at a date of your choice
throughout 2024.
We are pleased to announce the AFTV 2025 Junior Video Competition, centered around the theme La Gastronomie.
This competition invites students from Year 5 to Year 8 to look into the rich culinary traditions of Francophone countries.
To be be launched in 2025 at the beginning of Term 1, with video submissions due by the end of Term 2.
We have pleasure to invite AFTV members to the AFTV 2024 AGM. The AGM will include an introduction and viewing of the Notre
Dame de Paris: the Augmented Exhibition
which will be showing at the Immigration Museum.
Venue The Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne
VIC 3000
Date Friday 7 February 2025
Time 6.00pm - 8.30pm
Want to join the 2025 AFTV Committee?
AFTV members are welcome to join the AFTV 2025 Committee, which will be voted in at the AGM.
We are pleased to continue to offer online French conversation classes in Term 1 2025.
The online classes are delivered by Marilyne Lopez of Almaje Language School.
Dates 12 February to 19 March
Time 6.15pm to 7.45pm
The AFTV invites new teachers of VCE (Units 1,2,3,4) and those needing a refresher, to attend this all day professional development
workshop.
Participants will be looking at the PROGRESSION expected in students’ work in the 3 VCAA-prescribed outcomes, from Unit 1 to Unit 4 and, ultimately, the examination.
Venue Catholic Leadership Centre
Date Friday 28 February 2025
