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GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition
GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition equips students with the knowledge, understanding and skills to be able to feed themselves and others better: to have a healthy future lifestyle.
Students develop practical cookery skills and techniques as they explore the topics of food science, nutrition, food traditions and food safety. It’s a popular, energetic, exciting course offering essential skills for life through practical and theory lessons. Students need to have a genuine interest in food and have some prior cooking skills.
The coursework is called NEA (Non-Examination Assessment). There are 2 NEA tasks, completed in Year 11. The first is Food Science investigation; the theme is set by the examination board, which changes each year. The second NEA task is a 3- hour practical examination – It’s a bit like ‘the bake off’ but in examined conditions! It gives students a chance to showcase their technical skills. Students produce 3 suitable dishes in the 3-hour examination.
Course Outline:
This course consists of 3 components as listed below:
1. Theoretical knowledge (50% of the course, 1 hour 45 minute written examination)
• Multiplechoice questions (20 marks) Five questions each with a number of sub questions (80 marks) based on the following topics:
• Food, Nutrition & Health
• Food Science
• Food Safety
• FoodChoice
• FoodProvenance
• FoodPreparationSkills
2. NEA 1 Food Investigation (15% of the course)
• Writtenorelectronic report (1,500–2,000 words) including photographic evidence of the practical investigation
3. NEA 2 Food Preparation Assessment (35% of the course, practical assessment)
• Writtenorelectronic portfolio including photographic evidence
• Photographic evidence of the three final dishes must be included
Examination Board:
AQA
Head of Department:
Mrs A Wilkins-Shaw
“I have really enjoyed spending these last coupleofyears studying GCSE Food Prep and Nutrition. The class is lovely, and I have loved the practicals we have done, and the theory was really interesting to learn about. I’m feeling very confident about the practical examination coming up as we have learnt and practised all the skills needed.”
Charlotte Cassar
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