Home Economics
Departmental Staff
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Head of Department: Mrs M Tate
Mrs B Fegan
Miss G O’Neill
Mrs L McConville
Technician: Mrs C McDonnell
Curriculum
Key Stage 3 (Year 8,9 &10)
Three Key Concepts:
1. Healthy Eating – Exploring Healthy Eating provides opportunities to develop understanding required in the choice, planning, storage, preparation, cooking and serving of food.
2. Home and Family Life – provides opportunities to understand the importance of the family as a caring unit.
3. Independent Living – Provides opportunities to understand the importance of becoming discerning consumers and effective managers of resources.
Benefits to Learners
Opportunities
- To develop practical skills in the safe and hygienic, healthy and creative use of foods to plan, prepare and cook and serve a range of meals.
- To develop practical skills in the safe use of a range of utensils and appliances in the preparation, cooking and serving of a variety of dishes.
- Investigate the impact of storage, preparation and cooking on food.
- Explore ways to achieve a healthy diet.
- Explore strategies to manage family scenarios.
- Investigate changing needs of family members.
- Explore roles and responsibilities of family members.
- Investigate a range of factors that influence consumer choices and decisions.
- Investigate consumer rights, responsibilities and support available
Practical Dishes include: Breakfast, Pizza, Risotto, Spaghetti Bolognaise, Fruit Crumble, Lasagne, Chicken Curry, Mexican Burritos, Shepherds Pie, Soup, Fruit Scones, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Queen cakes, Bread, Halloween, Christmas and Easter Celebratory Cookery.
GCSE (Years 11 & 12)
Course content is divided into three sections:
Unit 1: Diet and Health and Consumer Awareness
40% weighting available Summer only
1 hour 30mins, includes short-answer, structured extended writing questions
Unit 2: Diet and Health, controlled assessment. 25hours
40% weighting available January and Summer
Unit 3: Consumer Awareness, controlled assessment, 20hrs
20% weighting, available January and Summer
- This course allows students to progress from KS3 through to A Level Home Economics and other related courses.
Practical activities involve developing skills gained at KS3.
Starters: soups, stuffed vegetables
Main dishes: Quiche Lorraine, Curry, Meat/fish/chicken dishes.
Vegetable dishes: Vegetables au gratin, Stir Fry, Lasagne, Wedges
Desserts: Fruit flan, French Apple Tart, Cheese cake
Benefits to learners
Helps develop:
- Knowledge, understanding and skills required for Home Economics.
- Knowledge and understanding of human needs within a multicultural society and of relevant technological and scientific developments.
- A critical and analytical approach to decision making and problem solving in relation to subject content.
- The ability to examine issues that affect the quality of human life, including an appreciation of diversity.
- The ability to evaluate choices and decisions, to develop as informed and discerning consumers.
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Child Development Revised
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Unit 1: Parenthood, pregnancy and childbirth
1 hour, includes short-answered, structured and extended writing questions.
20% weighting, Summer only
Unit 2: Child Development (0 – 5years)
1 hour, includes short-answered, structured and extended writing questions.
20% weighting, Summer only.
Unit 3: Controlled assessment investigation task : 25hours
40% weighting, January and Summer.
Unit 4: Controlled assessment short task : 15 hours
20% weighting, January and Summer.
This course aims to encourage an understanding of pregnancy, the responsibilities of being a parent and the overall needs of young children and emphasises the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
It gives students opportunities to apply their knowledge and understanding through a variety of contexts.
Students have an opportunity to carry out practical activities such as preparing and cooking meals for expecting mother, children and families, sterilize and make-up bottles, change nappies, bath and clothe baby.
Students also develop ICT skills and use the “Virtual Real Baby”.
What Can I Do with a Qualification in Home Economics?
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Related Careers
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- Environmental health officer
- Home Economist
- Catering
- Hotel management
- Retail management
- Hospitality
- Food management
- Consumer adviser
- Education/teaching
- Nutritionist
- Dietician
- Market researcher
- Nurse
- Trading standards officer
- Health promotion officer
Related Courses
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- Environmental health
- Consumer studies
- Marketing
- Food production
- Food technology
- Food science
- Food management & supply
- Hotel and catering
- Leisure and tourism
- Health promotion
- Nutrition
- Dietetics
- Social work
- Hospitality
- Nursing