1. GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition
I’m Miss Walsh
The aims of this session are to gain understanding of the course in food that your child is studying.
A brief course outline
What you can do to help your child
Resources that are available
Answering exam questions
Standard of work expected to achieve the top grades

2. Subject Content – What is covered?
Food preparation skills are integrated into five core topics: 1. Food, nutrition and health – Macro Nutrients, Micro Nutrients, Nutritional Needs and Health. 2. Food science – Cooking of food, Heat Transfer and the Functional and Chemical Properties of Food. 3. Food safety – Food Spoilage, Contamination and the Principles of Food Safety. 4. Food choice – Factors affecting Food Choice, British and International Cuisines, Sensory Evaluation, Food Labelling and Marketing 5. Food provenance – Environmental Impact and Sustainability of Food, Food Processing and Production.

3. Assessment
NON- EXAM ASSESSMENT (NEA): Task 1: Food investigation (15%) Written Report
Students' understanding of the working characteristics, functional and chemical properties of ingredients.
Students will submit a written report (1,500– 2,000 words) including photographic evidence of the practical investigation.
NON- EXAM ASSESSMENT (NEA): Task 2: Food preparation assessment (35%) Written Portfolio
Students' knowledge, skills and understanding in relation to the planning, preparation, cooking, presentation of food and application of nutrition related to the chosen task.
Students will prepare, cook and present a final menu of three dishes within a single period of no more than three hours, planning in advance how this will be achieved.
Students will submit a written portfolio (15 A4 pages) including photographic evidence.
EXAM: Paper 1: Food preparation and nutrition (50%) Written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes
The paper will be made up of 20 multiple choice questions worth 20 Marks.
5 questions each with a number of sub questions worth 80 marks.

4. Textbook Resources Available
Available in school.
All students have username and password to access digitally when connected to the internet.
Website
Student Username: SCAROLINE3
Student Password: STUDENT3
Textbook Resources Available
Advisable for Year 10.
Essential for Year 11
AQA approved alternative revision guides
Used in Year 11 for weekly tests alongside the specification.

5. Very useful websites
/food/gcse/food-preparation-and- nutrition/teach/subject-specific- vocabulary
Subject Specific vocabulary
Love Food Love Science videos on You tube.
food-preparation-and-nutrition The specification and exemplar assessment materials. od/gcse/food-preparation-and- nutrition/teach/command-words - Command Words used in exams.

6. Allow your child to cook at home – cook with them !
S1 – General practical skills
S2 – Knife skills
S3 – Preparing fruit and vegetables
S4 – Use of the cooker
S5 – Use of electrical equipment
S6 – Cooking methods
S7 – Prepare, combine and shape
S8 – Sauce making
S9 – Tenderise and marinate
S10 – Dough
S11 – Raising agents
S12 – Setting mixtures

8. Grade 8 1.1 To achieve grade 8 candidates will be able to:
demonstrate relevant and comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the concepts, principles and properties of food science, cooking and nutrition
safely and effectively apply precise and sophisticated technical skills when using a wide range of equipment and ingredients to plan, prepare and present complex dishes
critically analyse and evaluate, to draw well-evidenced conclusions:
issues relating to food choices, provenance and production
food made by themselves and others

9. Grade 5 2.1 To achieve grade 5 candidates will be able to:
demonstrate mostly accurate and appropriate knowledge and understanding of the concepts, principles and properties of food science, cooking and nutrition
safely and effectively apply competent technical skills to a range of equipment and ingredients to plan, prepare and present dishes with some degree of complexity
analyse and evaluate, to draw coherent conclusions :
issues relating to food choices, provenance and production
food made by themselves and others

10. Grade 2 3.1 To achieve grade 2 candidates will be able to:
demonstrate some relevant knowledge and understanding of the concepts, principles and properties of food science, cooking and nutrition
safely apply limited skills to some equipment and ingredients to plan, prepare and present simple dishes
make straightforward and obvious comments on:
issues relating to food choices, provenance and production
food made by themselves and others