Our food technology department teaches students how to cook and apply the principles of nutrition and healthy eating, whilst developing skills that enables students to feed themselves and others affordably, now and later in life.

Food technology is about students drawing on existing knowledge and the taught content of nutrition, health and dietary requirements, equipment and techniques, and the characteristics of ingredients.  This knowledge, in turn, promotes understanding in several areas such as nutrition, health, equipment, ingredients, components of recipes and skills.

 Our aim is to develop an understanding of food, healthy eating, food purchasing, storage, preparation and making skills so that they can make informed decisions in adult life about food that they are consuming.  Students explore seasonality, food sources and farming systems. 

Food technology by its very nature is a creative practical and fun subject.  It allows students to be imaginative and hands on.  The practical skills gained will support students in later life and beyond the realms of the classroom and encourages healthy eating both within themselves and challenges the choices that are made as a family.

Students demonstrate the knowledge they have acquired about such things as preparing food for people with different dietary needs or different ethnic backgrounds, and cooking food that is ethical and ecologically sustainable.

Students learn to cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes and develop a repertoire of food that they can prepare and cook confidently and competently on their own.  Students also learn how to critically reflect and think about current social and global issues to make choices about food and nutrition.

Through lessons students will become active and informed citizens when living independently or with others.  Students will lead a longer and healthier life as a direct result of our food curriculum.

At Key Stage 4 students continue to study practical cooker but are also introduced to the key areas of the hospitality industry.  This prepares students for working in the industry, whether that is full-time as a career choice or part time whilst studying in further or higher education.