KS3 Overview

Year 7 - 

• Food preparation skills – weighing and measuring, chopping skills, safe use of the cooker.

• Food safety – risk assessment, safe storage of food, the 4 C’s, food poisoning

• Healthy eating –  the eatwell guide, how to achieve a healthy balanced diet, consequences of a poor diet and exercise.

Year 8 - 

• Nutrition – functions of nutrients in the body, designing meals for specific groups

• Food choice - Special diets, Multicultural foods

• Food ethics – Food waste, Food miles and carbon footprint, seasonal eating

Year 9 -

• Food safety – Cross-contamination, high-risk foods

• Healthy living – balanced diet, diet related disease, cooking methods, exercise

• Special diets – coeliac, lactose intolerance, vegetarianism, allergies, planning meals and diets to suit needs

• Food ethics – sustainability, 6R’s, conservation of energy through cooking methods

• Project based work – nutrition, world foods, food ethics, the catering kitchen structure

• Food styling and high skill dishes