Food Technology

Children are introduced to food and nutrition in Forms 1 and 2,  where they are given the opportunity to partake in cross-curricular activities including learning about food origins and seasonality.  Forms 3 and 4 have cookery lessons in our designated food technology room, learning about food, how to prepare it, and its implications to a healthy diet. It is important for every child, and a skill that each pupil will carry with them throughout their life.

The tactile nature of food allows us to draw on the pedagogy of play as a learning process when working with younger students. 

Our younger students learn about healthy eating; where food comes from and food origins, farming and processing; understanding seasonality and knowing where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed. Students learn how to weigh and measure ingredients, cut fruit and vegetables safely with a knife; and they learn about the chemical reactions that take place in bread making whilst combining ingredients, kneading, shaping and baking their own bread.