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Food Technology

Staff responsible:                        Mrs L Chamberlain

Introduction

Food Technology gives students hands on experience in designing, developing and making food products.

 

Qualifications available:           GCSE

 

Course content

The course will cover:

• The acquisition of skills to enable the production of high quality food products.
• Knowledge and understanding of the properties of food.
• Apply the making of food products and related aspects to mass production in industry.
• Use of ICT together with an understanding of its application in the food industry.

How students will learn

Students will cover a wide range of topics which contain many practical activities:

• Acquisition of research skills
• Experimental/comparison techniques
• Sensory analysis of their own and existing products
• Nutritional analysis of food using ICT
• The acquisition of practical food skills enabling students to develop their own ideas into final products.

How students will be assessed

Assessed coursework is started in Year 10 and completed in Year 11.  Students will select from a number of topics and will trial and develop their own ideas, to produce a final product.

Coursework assignment (students choose their own topic)	60%
Written Examination	40%

 

Additional Information

This Course prepares students for moving on to careers involving any aspect of this fast moving area of consumer industry, as well as equipping students with the knowledge to maintain a healthy lifestyle in a consumer orientated society.