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KS3 Food
Year 7 Food
In Year 7 you will learn the first basic skills with food, and you will use the hob and the grill to make macaroni cheese and other pasta and rice dishes. You will look at basic food hygiene and safety, and study staple foods and where they grow around the world. You will finish by designing and making your own rice or pasta salad.
Year 8 Food
Year 8 cooking is all about healthy eating, about how small changes in your diet are painless but over time have a huge impact on your health. It is also about how you can have a healthy diet but still have the foods you love, with a few small changes, so we make cakes, bread, pizza and chicken nuggets with potato wedges.
Year 9 Food
In Year 9 we look at three of the most popular cuisines in the world – Italian, Chinese and Indian food. We have a look at the ingredients they use and how the climate affects what and how they cook, and we make a wide variety of casseroles for example curries, stirfries and Bolognese and other dishes. At the end we can try cooking casseroles from other countries like Mexico, Thailand and England.
KS4 Food
GCSE Catering
The Catering GCSE is all about putting good food on the table, so we do a lot of cooking, and we cook almost every kind of recipe you can think of. Many weeks we cook two dishes that go together, so perhaps a main dish plus a vegetable dish, or a dessert plus a sauce. In the two years we also have a visit from a professional chef and you watch demonstrations of dishes that would be too complicated or too expensive for you to cook yourself. And we also look at the restaurant and catering industry and the laws and standards associated with it.
You are assessed on two practical exams, with the paperwork that goes into preparing for them, and on the written exam at the end. It is a great course, for those who want to go into the catering trade, and for those who just enjoy cooking and eating.
Recipes
Year 7 Recipes
Macaroni Cheese
Tomato Sauce and Pasta
Investigation Practical
Year 8 Recipes
All Year 8 Recipes
