Cooking and Nutrition
Year 6 - DT - Spring 2
Year 6 - DT - Spring 2
Year 6 Cafe/Enterprise Project - design and create a savoury item (including sandwiches and toasties)
Design
• Design a savoury product for an audience other than themselves (adult cafe customer)
Make
•Make a sandwich (hot or cold) from children’s own design in preparation for their cafe project, thinking about their target audience.
Evaluate
• Taste and verbally evaluate and discuss what adjustment could be made to either the filling/flavour/presentation of their sandwich adaptations.
• To calculate the cost of their sandwich and discuss their findings.
Technical Knowledge
• Understand that food and drink provides nutrients, fibre and water.
• Use of all food tech equipment with adult supervision (e.g. frying pan, grill, oven, toasted sandwich maker, microwave).
• Presenting food in a consistent and aesthetically pleasing way.
• To run a class cafe considering costings and customer satisfaction in the Summer term
Customer satisfaction
Feedback
Adapt and adjust
Consistency
Aesthetically pleasing
Presentation
Costings
Budget
In Key Stage 2, the children complete two 'Cooking and Nutrition' units per academic year.
In Year 5, the children designed and made rocks cakes, biscuits and pizzas. They learnt about food hygiene, food packaging and the different ways food can be cooked as well as kneading dough.