Food & Nutrition

Food is a vital part of our daily lives and is essential for life. As our pupils become adults and have busy lives, it is easy to choose food which has been ready prepared. However, it is more nutritious and often cheaper to cook simple, delicious food.

At Airedale Academy pupils will develop their knowledge and understanding of nutrition, healthy eating, food preparation, hygiene, cooking techniques, and sensory characteristics.

Airedale Academy’s curriculum intent statement:

• Give our pupils vital life skills that enable them to feed themselves and others affordably and nutritiously, now and later in life,
• Encourage the development of high skills and resilience in a safe environment, allowing pupils to demonstrate commitment and act on feedback,
• Encourage pupils to enable them to follow a recipe and substitute ingredients and cooking methods as appropriate, demonstrating an understanding of food choices e.g. veganism, allergies and healthy eating.
• Develop understanding that will allow pupils to become discriminating consumers of food products, enabling them to participate in society in an active and informed manner,
• Engage with pupils to encourage them to understand the environmental factors which affect the inequalities in food distribution on a global scale and give them an understanding of the need to minimise ‘food waste’ starting with their own practice,
• Allow pupils to explore a number of multicultural perspectives concerning food. Pupils will enhance their understanding, appreciation and acceptance of people from a variety of cultural backgrounds through the preparation of food from different countries,
• Encourage our pupils to develop an awareness and acceptance of diversity within our community.

Food Ingredients (1)

• Pupils have 1 hour per week in rotation with Design and Technology, this results in 1 Term of study per year at KS3,
• Pupils access the KS3 National Curriculum for Food and Nutrition in Years 7 to 9 to progress to the Eduqas Level 2 Award in Hospitality and Catering qualification at KS4,
• Pupils plan, prepare and cook a range of dishes that allows them to,
• Develop the required planning, preparation, cooking and presentation techniques,
• Work with the required range of ingredients, nutrients and vitamins,
• Produce a healthy and balanced diet,
• ·Pupils use a range of Technical language, tier 3 vocabulary, targeted for assessment,
• Pupils are assessed on Practical Skill, Independence, Planning, Evaluation and their comprehension and use of Technical language.

• Pupils will have the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently to prepare and cook dishes,
• Pupils will use a wide range of ingredients,
• Pupils will make high quality, healthy and nutritious dishes for a wide range of people,
• Pupils will evaluate dishes/ menus/ diets with respect to healthy and balanced diets,
• Pupils will be able to make informed food/ diet decisions even when not preparing and cooking their own food,
• Pupils are prepared for post 16 learning or routes into local employers in Hospitality and Catering industries,
• Pupils are able to make a positive contribution to Hospitality and Catering industries.