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Food & Nutrition

 

Learning Journey & Sequencing Rationale

Food Technology is both a practical and academic subject. It provides our young people with the opportunity to actively respond to class based projects with creativity and rationality. Food Technology teaches our children how to make important decisions in selecting healthy and sustainable options and how to become more resourceful in creating healthy meals for themselves and their families. Our learners also develop a critical understanding of the impact of wise shopping and meal planning in daily life and the wider world. Food Technology delivers excellent opportunities for our learners to develop and apply judgements in relation to aesthetics, economic, moral, and of a social nature, in both their own designing and when evaluating the work of others.

knowledge Organiser

A knowledge organiser is an important document that lists the important facts that learners should know by the end of a unit of work. It is important that learners can recall these facts easily, so that when they are answering challenging questions in their assessments and GCSE and A-Level exams, they are not wasting precious time in exams focusing on remembering simple facts, but making complex arguments, and calculations.

We encourage all pupils to use them by doing the following:

  • Quiz themselves at home, using the read, write, cover, check method.
  • Practise spelling key vocabulary
  • Further researching people, events and processes most relevant to the unit.