Food Technology

The pictures to the right show Year 4 making 'Teoni's Marble Cake'. Mrs Payne, who makes Teoni's Cookies, came in to give a cake-making workshop recently in the Food Technology room. All the children made a Marble Cake to take home.

Year 4 cakes
Year 4 making "Teoni's Marble Cake"

Year 4: cooking some Pizza

Year 6: cooking Chicken Dijon

Main Areas of Study

The syllabus is divided into 7 areas: -

Safety and Hygiene
Manipulative Skills
Food Production
Operational Management
Health and Nutrition
Food Science
Food is Fun

A veritable banquet! Lunch

Aspects of each area within the syllabus are taught to each of the year groups so that as skills and understanding improve more advanced aspects of each element are introduced.

We adopt a flexible approach to teaching within the syllabus. This allows us to link with outside influences, events and trends and to take advantage of educational opportunities as they arise. This flexible approach ensures that lessons are contemporary and topical.

"Food for thought..."

Aims of the FT dept.

A new Food Technology room enables this creative subject to be enjoyed by all children at the Prep School weekly.

To establish a healthy interest in all aspects of food from an early age
To teach pupils to enjoy food and to be able to make informed choices
To equip children with useful life skills
To develop personal, social and health education through the teaching of nutrition, principles of healthy eating, food safety and hygiene
To make pupils aware of all aspects of food production ‘from farm to fork’

Course Content

Over the four year course we cover not only the traditional cookery skills but also food production, distribution and marketing together with nutrition, food science, hygiene and health and safety.

The Food Technology syllabus has been specifically designed to allow us to work with other departments within the School promoting cross-curricular teaching for the benefit of our students.

The syllabus is divided into seven areas: Safety and Hygiene, Manipulative Skills, Food Production, Operational Management, Health and Nutrition, Food Science and Food is Fun.

Aspects of each area within the syllabus are taught to each of the year groups so that, as skills and understanding improve, more advanced aspects of each element are introduced.