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Hospitality & Catering
The Food curriculum has been designed to cover an extensive range of knowledge and practical skills, to engage all abilities and to offer challenge and support accordingly. The Food department is passionate about encouraging students to become independent learners and to instil a positive mind-set. We believe that the study of Food has an important impact on our students’ life choices through their choice of food. Whilst a specialist subject, the Food curriculum allows opportunities for a plethora of cross-curricular learning including:
1.Geography - food provenance, food security and development of culinary traditions
2.Mathematics - costing out recipes, calculating the distance food travels, weighing and measuring, calculating the nutritional content of food
3.Science - why food is cooked, how heat is transferred through different cooking methods and how cooking methods can improve the sensory properties of food
4.Modern Foreign Languages - learning about the traditional foods associated with other countries.
Throughout all key stages the delivery of Food lessons will include a range of relevant theory, knowledge and practical skills lessons. These in turn will enhance the learning experience and develop a deeper understanding of the food we eat, where it comes from and the reason for eating it. Reading is promoted in all lessons and is critical to understanding and following recipes.
Hospitality and Catering Curriculum Intent Statement