In N5 Practical Cookery in S4 you will continue to develop your practical cookery skills in preparation for making a three-course meal in 2.5 hours for your prelim and final exam.  You will also continue to build your food knowledge to prepare you for the N5 written question paper.  Practical Cookery involves over 5 hours of assessment - a 2.5 hour practical exam, an assignment to be completed in 1 hours 45 minutes and a 1 hour written paper.  

This is a challenging but rewarding course and the more cooking you can do at home the more you can develop your organisational and time management skills - cooking a roast dinner for your family on a Sunday afternoon for instance, would be the perfect way to practise your skills and demonstrate to your family how good a cook you have become as one complaint we have from your folks is that the food you make in school never makes it home for them to sample.

• Using food preparation techniques and cookery processes in the preparation of dishes 

•  Understanding and demonstrating knowledge of the importance of food safety and hygiene and its application in the practical context 

• Selecting, weighing, measuring and using appropriate ingredients to prepare and garnish or decorate dishes

• Understanding and demonstrating knowledge of the characteristics of a range of ingredients, and their function in a practical context

• Understanding and demonstrating knowledge of the importance of sourcing sustainable ingredients 

• Understanding and demonstrating knowledge of current dietary advice relating to the use of ingredients

• Following recipes in the preparation of dishes and carrying out an evaluation of the product  planning, costing, organisational and time management skills in a cookery context

• Producing, portioning and presenting dishes appropriately