Cooking and Food Technology

[PerkyLady]

Is it in the subject of Food Technology that students are taught how to cook?

And in what school Year, do students have this important subject in their curriculum? Is it in Year 7 or Year 8?

For these purposes, are students required to bring cooking ingredients from home?...

Just one last question, was this subject in students' curricula about 20 years ago?

I thank you very much in advance for your answers.

i can only tell you my own experience of food tech and that was a whileeeee back. The first term we were given a flapjack recipe (not much cooking going on here) and we were given the ingredients. The second part was to cook a dish that they gave us a recipe for in our groups and the idea is that you follow the recipe. I don’t believe I was asked to buy the ingredients there either.

However, the class was very much treated by us all as fun and games, I did not come out of it with any particular skill (but then I cooked alongside my mum so you could argue that those who don’t have that at home would benefit from understanding how to measure out 100g of sugar). But this was not the equivalent of an entry level cooking NVQ or whatever those qualifications are called now

These are very random yet specific questions what are you wanting to know for?

Is this for the novel you're writing...?

The OP is writing a novel set in a secondary school and has started multiple random threads which she doesn't return too with questions like this

Yes

year 7-9, can continue for year 10 and 11 if you choose to take it for gcse

yes they bring in ingredients from home

yes it was on the curriculum when I was in high school over 20 years ago

I'm 39 and home economics as it was known in my Scottish school was compulsory for s1 and s2, was a split year between cooking and sewing I. E cooking til Christmas and then sewing thereafter.

Is compulsory for only s1 now at my kids school. Dd studies it now and it's called food&textiles.

We had to pay some cash when they first went into first year (Scotland so year 7/8?) I think it was 2.50?! Never provided anything since.

Perhaps if you google national curriculum for England and look in the design technology section.
Good luck!