Skip to content
Oak National Academy
Oak National Academy
View my library
0
Teachers
Pupils

KS3 cooking and nutrition curriculum

Unit sequence

Skip to units

Filter and highlight

Year group

Highlight a thread
Cooking and nutrition
Year 9

Accurate and precise cooking

3 lessons

Threads

  • Food hygiene and safety
  • Food origins and provenance
  • Food preparation and cooking
  • Healthy eating and nutrition
  • Sensory evaluation
  • The science of food

Description

Through three recipes, the emphasis of this unit is on accurate and precise use of a range of food skills, and independent working. High standards of food safety are embedded, and pupils modify recipes for health and explore food science in action and the cost of ingredients.

Cooking independently provides pupils with the confidence and transferable skills to cook at home and apply their learning life long. Accuracy and precision are refined, based on previous work in Years 7 and 8 of becoming more proficient in a range of food skills, and employing strategies to keep safe and hygienic. Pupils continue to secure and fine-tune their food skills in Year 9, preparing, cooking and presenting a range of dishes, while embedding food safety and hygiene, and deepening the application of food science.

  1. Making sweet potato katsu curry
  2. Making Chelsea buns
  3. Making a sweet & sour fakeaway

  • Pupils can maintain high standards of good personal hygiene and food safety, explaining its rationale.
  • Pupils can use a wide range of equipment and demonstrate a variety of food skills.
  • Pupils can use healthy eating messages to suggest changes to the ingredients and cooking method in a recipe.
  • Pupils can talk about yeast producing carbon dioxide, which helps bread to rise.
  • Pupils know that home-cooked dishes can be compared to shop-bought for a number of factors.
See lessons in unit

Use this KS3 cooking and nutrition curriculum plan to teach practical food skills alongside nutritio...

12 units shown,

Need help with our new curriculum?

Visit our help centre for technical support as well as tips and ideas to help you make the most of Oak.

Go to help centre