Food Technology
Quality of Education
Curriculum
Our food technology curriculum applies the principles of nutrition and healthy eating whilst instilling a love of cooking in all pupils. Learning how to cook is a crucial life skill for pupils now and as they prepare for adulthood. Throughout their time in food technology, we aim to develop independence through practical participation. Communication and functional skills are also rooted within the curriculum, through rich questioning teachers scaffold food skills and knowledge to enable learners to solve problems in anticipation for adulthood. Students are encouraged to gain a greater knowledge of themselves and be curious learners. In turn, this provides them with opportunities to achieve ‘excellence for all’.
Explore Pathway: Students study Food Technology 2 lessons per week to cover a wide scope of Food Technology skills and equipment they will need in everyday life. Students’ progress sequentially through progression levels and bridge, onto milestones. Students access Food technology through the use of supported steps and equipment to aid independence and produce a range of finished dishes. Students work towards BTEC Level 1 and BTEC Level 2 qualifications as they progress to KS4 programme of study.
SMSC underpins students’ experiences in Food Technology where they are given the opportunity to understand the world around them and have empathy for others including those from different religions, cultures and the foods associated with these.
Extra-Curricular Opportunities: Food Technology is fundamental to everyday life as such Elms Bank equips students with ‘hands on experience’ of cooking, these include trips to the local supermarket to purchase ingredients to make dishes.
CEIAG: Cooking is a creative and highly inter-connected discipline it is essential to everyday life. Learning is related to real life and covers areas such as budgeting of meals in the home and profit and loss when running a food business. Students experience serving and waiting on as part of their work-related learning.
Wellbeing: The Technology department supports the development of positive learners by using the marking and feedback policy students aspire to achieve and respond positively to regular praise, use of stickers and stamps, pathway champions and postcards.
Values: The Technology department supports the development of positive and resilient learners through the use of the marking and feedback policy. Learning is scaffolded, modelled and revisited to allow for students to succeed and opportunities to try again. All students achieve external accreditation in Food Technology and this is differentiated across 5 pathways. Finally, students deepen their morale code in attending Food Technology lessons by discussing real life examples such as those touched on above. Helping them to develop into students with integrity and a strong moral sense of right and wrong.