Food & Nutrition

This curriculum for food and nutrition is designed to enable students to develop, acquire and secure practical food skills through using recipes that are suitable and practical for cooking at home, promote healthier eating, reflect more global cuisine, and encourage dialogue around culture and inclusivity.

The curriculum will also develop safe and hygienic practices that can be applied at home as well as in a professional catering environment and challenge students to try alternative food as well as discuss issues such as sustainability, the future of farming and other issues.

Year 7 will begin to look more carefully at people and their choice of diet. Giving students a chance to discuss and explore those diet choices as well as experiment with recipes.

With allergy awareness increasing and very strict guidelines in industry for food preparation it is important that students also have an understanding of how restaurants keep us safe and how we can use the same principles in the school kitchen as well as the home kitchen.

A highlight of year 7 is the chocolate bar design project, this will also overlap with graphic design with students considering the packaging and branding too.

Course materials

Recipes, ingredients and containers will be provided by the school and as outlined in the letter at the start of term will be billed termly for ingredients used.

Where possible every effort will be taken to keep costs to a minimum and prevent wastage, we will also consider the environment and the school’s position as an Eco-School, with what we teach, the resources we use and the way in which we use them.

Food hygiene and basic cooking skills

Many recipes including:

Scones
Lasagne
Pizza Scones
Carrot & Chocolate Chip Muffins
Apple muffins
Raisin & Banana Cookies

Chocolate Bar Design

Chocolate fudge
Packaging Design & Production

How will I be assessed?

Practical skills will be assessed as well as discussion and awareness of the social and ecological issues that surround our diets.

Nutritional learning and a good awareness of the eatwell guide and its application will be assessed.

If you have any queries about this curriculum, please contact: Mr Jamie Morris, Head of D&T, on jm@farlingtonschool.com