KS4 Subject: DT: Food Preparation and Nutrition

What topics will you study in KS4 DT: Food Preparation and Nutrition?

Building on KS3, KS4 students will continue to explore further:

  • Food Spoilage 
  • Nutrition & Healthy Living
  • Adapting diets and nutritional requirements for different people
  • Food Science including the function of ingredients and heat transfer
  • Food Provenance including the environmental impact of food, food security and the ethical and social implications of food
  • Factors affecting Food Choice

Whilst developing a range of practical skills across both sweet and savoury high level dishes

Do you have a reading list for this subject?

In addition to the knowledge organisers and revision guide provided:

  • Illuminate Publishing: Eduqas GCSE Food Preparation & Nutrition: Student Book
  • My Revision Notes: WJEC Eduqas GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition by Helen Buckland
  • WJEC Eduqas GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition Exam Question Practice Workbook Paperback by Helen Buckland
  • BBC Bitesize
  • Seneca Learning
  • Food Fact Of Life

How will you be assessed during the course?

At the end of each term in Year 10, students will sit a written paper, which increases in length as they go through the year, resulting in a full GCSE mock paper at DPR3. Additionally they will independently cook a dish within an allotted time, echoing the requirements of NEA 2 in Yr11.

In Year 11 students will sit the following assessments: NEA 1 (15%) + NEA 2 (35%) + Final Written Assessment.

Students will sit full mock papers in DPR 1 and 2, ready for their final exam in June.

How can you help your child excel in this subject?

  • Encourage students to cook at home for themselves, the family or another family member/ cook dishes they are not used or from a different culture.
  • Give them the opportunity to eat different types of food, from different cultures, different places e.g. restaurant/food trucks/ markets and/or use different ways of cooking or eating.
  • Get them involved in your weekly shop and meal plan so they see the process from start to beginning.
  • Watch TV programs like the 'Great British. Bake Off', 'MasterChef', 'Food Unwrapped', 'Inside the Factory', 'Saturday Kitchen', 'Great British Menu', the Food Network
  • Take them to local farmers markets or farm to build their understanding of where food comes from and the impact it has on the environment.
  • Read articles linked to cooking, food science, food provenance.
  • Support them in their school learning by ensuring they are actively engaging with the DPR to check HMWK and they attend any interventions.