COOKING & NUTRITION

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which one to keep."

CURRICULUM STATEMENT

Our curriculum aim is for all pupils to leave English Martyrs Primary School with an enriched experience of Design Technology. We aim to develop their love of creating innovative designs and enhance their problem solving skills within a variety of contexts.

Design and Technology is an inspiring, rigorous and practical subject. Using creativity and imagination, pupils design and make products that solve real and relevant problems, within a variety of contexts, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values.

At English Martyrs Primary School children are taught to select and use appropriate tools safely and effectively to make a product. In all areas of Design and Technology the children are encouraged to consider the effectiveness of their designs and requirements of the product.

The core skills underpinning our DT curriculum throughout the school are

Design, Make, Evaluate
Technical Knowledge
Cooking and Nutrition

Our curriculum equips the pupils of our school to use problem solving skills to become innovative, enterprising, resourceful and creative.

INTRODUCTION

As part of their work with food, pupils should be taught how to cook and apply the principles of nutrition and healthy eating. Instilling a love of cooking in pupils will also open a door to one of the great expressions of human creativity. Learning how to cook is a crucial life skill that enables pupils to feed themselves and others affordably and well, now and in later life.

KEY STAGE 1

Pupils should be taught to:

use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes
understand where food comes from.

KEY STAGE 2

Pupils should be taught to:

understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
prepare and cook a variety of predominantly savoury dishes using a range of cooking techniques
understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.

English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School

Beaufront Gardens, Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE5 2SA

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Tel. 0191 274 7463

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COOKING & NUTRITION