Food Technology

Our Curriculum Intent

The Food Technology Department will achieve the Howard’s curriculum intent by bringing out the best through encouraging the student’s creativity, self-confidence and promoting skill development through practical tasks and group work.

We will ensure our curriculum is broad and balanced by providing a course where students learn practical life skills, make recipes that encourage a lifelong enjoyment of food, within the parameters of healthy living, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values.

We will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of nutrition, healthy eating, food preparation, hygiene, cooking techniques and food’s sensory characteristics.

We promote the development of high-level skills and resilience in a safe environment. We enable students to follow instructions / recipes, substitute ingredients and cooking methods as appropriate to meet the needs of different dietary requirements.

We encourage students to become discriminating consumers of food products, enabling them to participate in society as active and informed consumers. Students will be encouraged to understand the environmental factors which affect inequalities in food distribution on a local and global scale, giving them an understanding of the need to minimise food waste.

Students will explore several multicultural perspectives concerning food. Students will enhance their understanding, appreciation, and acceptance of people from a variety of cultural backgrounds through the preparation of food from different countries, developing an awareness of diversity within our community.