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Food Technology
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Food Technology
Welcome to Food Technology!
KS3
Throughout Key Stage 3 pupils are taught techniques for designing and making using Food. Pupils often work on their own but there are also opportunities to work as a group or member of a team.
Food Technology also has strong cross-curricular links such as PE (nutrition), Science and Maths.
Throughout Key Stage 3 pupils develop D&T capability by carrying out designing and making projects. By the end of Key Stage 3 they have a wider knowledge and understanding of D&T. They disassemble existing products as a means of researching possible design ideas.
Current projects include:
Year 7
Five a day - Fruit & Vegetables with Mrs Parker.
Year 8
Healthy Choices - Variety of choices dependable on brief with Mrs Parker.
Year 9
Food around the world - Variety of food dependable upon country studied with Mrs Parker.
KS4
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Food Technology GCSE
The specification is divided in to 2 units. The first unit is assessed through a written paper worth 40% of the overall final mark and covers the following topics
Materials and Components
which involves working with a range of different ingredients and understanding their characteristics.
Design and Market influences
Pupils will learn to understand the different needs of clients and produce dishes to cater for specific needs.
Processes and Manufacture
This area is concerned with the large scale production of food and covers areas such as food safety and CAD and CAM within the industry.
The second unit is ‘Design and Making Practice’ Pupils submit a single ‘design and make ‘project of up to 40 sides of A4. This controlled assessment is worth 60% of the final grade and gives pupils the opportunity to work independently on their own area of interest. It is assessed under the following areas: Investigating the Design Context. Development of Design Proposals, Making, Testing and Evaluation.
Activities & Events
Ready Steady Runshaw
We have visited Runshaw College’s Catering and Hospitality Faculty to take part in a one day taster session. A group of trainee chefs then came in to school and we helped judge ‘Ready Steady Runshaw’. Pupils have enjoyed seeing first-hand what further education opportunities are available to them.
Masterchef
On the 1st May 2012 we held a Masterchef competition with 8 Year 11 pupils judged by Mr Lowe. This was the brief set:
'Using a basic Victoria sponge batter as a base, pupils were to design a cake including up to 3 additional ingredients in an innovative and creative way.
Pupils had been learning baking, icing and decorating techniques over the past few weeks and were able to put these skills into practice during the competition.
The end results from all pupils were outstanding, with all pupils putting in 110%. Mr Lowe commenced judging and all pupils were awarded a Materchef medal for taking part, with the overall winner being Jack Catterall who was presented with a Masterchef trophy plate. His design was a double layered chocolate and strawberry sponge decorated with freshly sliced strawberries, twirl chocolates and Haribo strawberries finished off with chocolate buttercream.'
Well done to all the students who took part: Tom Elwood, Preston Green, Tiffany Iddon, Tom Holmes, Jack Catterall, Ashley Gould, Jake Wilkinson.
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