KS4 FOOD TECHNOLOGY
GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition is an exciting and creative course which focuses on practical cooking skills to ensure students develop a thorough understanding of nutrition, food provenance and the working characteristics of food materials. It encourages students to cook, enables them to make informed decisions about food and nutrition and allows them to acquire knowledge in order to be able to feed themselves and others affordably and nutritiously, now and later in life.
Exam board: AQA
ASSESSMENT:
Component 1: Principles of food preparation and nutrition (written exam 50% 1 hour 45 minutes)
Component 2: Food preparation and nutrition in action 50%
Non Exam Assessment 1 (NEA1) 15% Food science investigation
Non Exam Assessment 2 (NEA2) 35% Food preparation practical
KS4 Topics by year
Year 10
-
Diet, Nutrition and Health
-
Assessment: End of unit written assessment
-
Practical: Cottage Pie
-
Food Science
-
Assessment: End of unit written assessment
-
Practical: Lemon Meringue Pie
-
Food Safety
-
Assessment: End of unit written assessment
-
Practical: Portioning and deboning chicken
-
Food Choice
-
Mock NEA2 – Food Preparation Task
-
Assessment: Mock NEA2
-
Mock NEA2 – Food Preparation Task
-
Food Provenance
-
Assessment: Mock NEA2
-
Mock Written Exam
-
Mock NEA1 – Food Science Investigation
-
Assessment: Mock Written paper
-
Mock NEA1 – Food Science Investigation
Year 11
- NEA1 – Food Science Investigation (15%)
-
Revision and Written Mock EXAM
- NEA2 – Food Preparation Task (35%)
- NEA2 – Food Preparation Task (35%)
- Revision
- Written Exam (50%)
Key Contact
Dr Kerry Cupit, Head of Year 8 and Lead Teacher of Food Preparation and Nutrition.