Food & Nutrition

Subject Overview

Our aim within Food and Nutrition is to teach students to know how to achieve a healthy, balanced and sustainable diet, through an understanding of where food comes from, functions of ingredients and nutrients and to have the skills to produce healthy meals and make sustainable choices.

Here at Altrincham College, we aim: 

KS3: To develop and foster an interest in and love of food, backed up with sound subject knowledge and skills that can be applied and enable students to make wise food choices and safely prepare and cook a range of predominantly savoury products, whilst starting to explore topical issues surrounding food. This is taught through the exploration of the following three main topics: Food Choice, Food Science and Food Provenance

KS4: To further develop and challenge students’ practical skills, deepen their knowledge of the different food commodities, nutrition, food science and topical food issues. To enable them to feel confident to use their knowledge and skills for further education, careers and everyday life.

For Food lessons in Years 7, 8 and 9 pupils are placed in a group that is smaller than the average teaching group, with approximately 22 students. Each group has a Food lesson twice over the 2-week timetable.

Students who choose to study a food related course at KS4 have 5–6 hours of curriculum time over the 2-week timetable, some of which will be practical work. The overall grade for the KS4 food courses is determined by a mixture of assessment tasks (undertaken in curriculum time) and a written exam paper at the end of the course.

Meet the Food Department

The department team consists of three members of staff. These are:

Name	Title
Mrs J South	Head of Department
Mrs G Otway	Teacher of Food
Ms F McColl	Food Technician