Food
Curriculum Details
KS4
Design & Technology
Content
Year 10
Homework
Parent / Carer Support
- Checking students are completing homework.Providing ingredients. Supporting students to weigh out and prepare ingredients.Informing school in advance if a student is unable to take part in a practical.
- Worksheets Investigation of food products and ingredients.
Revision for end of unit tests.
Preparation of ingredients in advance of practical lessons.
6 modules covered in Year 10:Fruit and vegetables, cereals and staples. Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy, fats, oils and sugars. Peas, beans, lentils, nuts. This unit is examined and accounts for 50% of the GCSE.
Principles of Food Preparation and Nutrition.
Non-Examined Assessment (NEA) 1
Internally Assessed. Food Investigation - practical and experimental work investigating. function & application of ingredients. Accounts for 15% of the GCSE.
- Research and revision.
- Checking students are completing homework. Supporting with revision.
Non-Examined (NEA) Assessment 2.
Internally assessed. Food Preparation Assessment. A 3 hour practical exam and portfolio of work ( theme to be set by exam board in advance). Accounts for 35 % of GCSE.
- Research and revision.
- Checking students are completing homework. Supporting with revision.
Year 10 exam.
May/June 1hr 45min. Out of 100.
- Revision.
- Testing students.
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Study Guides & Resources
Extra Support
- BBC Bitesize Website bbc.co.uk/education/gcsebitesize
Eduqas Food Preparation and Nutrition website -
- Catch up and support lunch time and after school by arrangement. In rooms T10/11.
Content
Year 11
Homework
Parent / Carer Support
Controlled Assessment.
20 hour project on a theme of their choice from a selection supplied by the exam board. Which also includes 7 practical cooks and a folder of supporting work.
- Exam question practice as students are not allowed to take controlled assessment home to work on.
- Checking students are completing homework.
Providing ingredients for the practical element of the controlled assessment.
Non-Examined Assessment (NEA) 1
December75min long.
- Revision.
- Help with testing.
Bread and fish projects.
Revision for exam.March-May.
- Exam questions and revision.
- Help with revision. Testing pupils.
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Study Guides & Resources
- OCR Design and Technology for GCSE: Food Technology - copies available in school to be used in school. GCSE D&T Food technology OCR Revision Guide from Amazon/book shops around £6.
Extra Support
- Encourage pupils to cook at home with a variety of ingredients and methods of cooking. Watch cookery programmes on the television.