Does anyone know anything about the new 9-1 GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition curriculum (first examinations in 2018)??
DD Y10 is a few weeks into her GCSE courses. This week she has come home in distress, because she needs to bring in a fresh chicken for her next GCSE Food lesson so she can learn how to portion it. They'll then send the portions home to be frozen for cooking in future lessons.
She's a keen cook but a lifelong vegetarian (as am I - her dad hasn't eaten meat for 20 years either and is now largely vegan) and we have a wholly vegetarian home. I am loathe by buy and store this bloody chicken in the first place and even more loathe to continue to provide supplementary ingredients week after week for food that will simply go straight in the bin when it gets home - what a waste!
Her KS3 food lessons have always made allowances for alternative diets - it's never been even the slightest issue - and the school is massively multicultural, with children following every kind of religiously specific diet you can imagine, so naively perhaps, it literally never crossed my mind that her vegetarianism would be a problem for this course; it certainly wasn't mentioned by the school when she selected her options. If anything I thought it would add to the classroom debate (as, for example, the multi-faith aspect of the school makes for some brilliantly interesting RE discussion).
Does anyone know how much other meat / fish preparation is involved in this new course? Is it going to continue being a big issue? Her teacher insists that the meat prep is compulsory - is she right, or just unsympathetic? Even if DD grits her teeth and portions the chicken this time around, surely she's going to be hampered in that she won't feel able to taste and evaluate any of her future meaty creations?
I should add that she doesn't have hopes of being a chef but possibly something to do with food development or dietetics. She saw the science side of the paper as an interesting adjunct to her biology studies and the practical side as a bit of light relief in an otherwise entirely academic timetable - but have we made a boo-boo in choosing it?
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Anyone know about new 9-1 GCSE Food curriculum?
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Cabbagesandcustard · 11/10/2016 15:57
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