S3 Option Courses
The following Core Time courses are also being offered as Option Column Courses. You can find out more about them in the Core Time sections:
Art and Design (Code EADF)
Drama (Code EDRF)
Music (Code ECMF)
PE (Code EPEF)
Business Management (Code XCBF)
Geography (Code XCGF)
History (Code XCHF)
Modern Studies (Code XCMF)
RMPS (Code XREF)
Administration & IT (Code TAIF)
Computing Science (Code TCIF)
Design and Manufacture (Code TDMF)
Graphic Communication (Code TGCF)
Practical Woodworking (Code TPWF)
Health & Food Technology (THFF)
In addition, the following two courses, that are not available in Core Time, are available in our Options Column.
Subject: Practical cookery (Code HPCF)
This course will be delivered as an introduction to the progressive path of our practical cookery qualification through from National 3 to National 5.
The students will experience content from the three mandatory units:
Cookery skills, Techniques and Processes.
This introduces students to all the practical skills and techniques required to create a variety of dishes e.g. cuts of vegetables, cookery terms, piping and garnishes.
The students will cook set dishes to develop their understanding and skill level to achieve an exceptionally high standard of presentation.
Understanding and using ingredients
This introduces students to current food issues around sourcing sustainable foods, recognising local & seasonal produce and using it in creating their dishes.
Organisational Skills for cooking
Students will be challenged while undertaking practical activities to develop their time management, literacy & numeracy, organisational, evaluation and reflective skills.
Practical tasks – students will cook every week to help build their skills & consolidate their learning.
The course will involve both theory and practical tasks.
Practical Metalworking (Code TPMF)
The Practical Metalworking course is a workshop based course where students will develop a range of practical metalworking skills, practical creativity and problem solving.
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Learners develop understanding of safe working practices in a workshop environment, and awareness of sustainability issues in a practical metalworking context. Through this, they develop skills, knowledge and understanding of:
metalworking techniques
welding and plasma cutting
measuring and marking out metal sections and sheet materials
safe working practices in workshop environments
practical creativity and problem-solving skills
sustainability issues in a practical metalworking context
