Food Science and Nutrition

This course offers students an exciting opportunity to study Nutrition and Food Science in both a practical and theoretical way.

Students must achieve 5 GCSE grades 9-4 including Maths and English at grade 4.

YEAR 12 Meeting The Nutritional Needs of Specific Groups You will investigate the specific needs of different groups; planning and cooking dishes to meet their nutritional requirements. This unit has both internal and external assessments which are weighted equally and worth 50% of the Diploma. YEAR 13 Ensuring Food Is Safe To Eat and experimenting to solve food production problems In Year 13 you will study 2 units both of which have a controlled assessment worth 25% each of the total marks. One unit focuses on food hygiene and safety and the other on an industry based scenario of a food production fault.

Classroom based

Year 12 - Practical Design and make coursework worth 25%, Exam paper - Meeting the needs of specific groups 25% Year 13 - Controlled assessment - Ensuring food is safe to eat - 25% Controlled assessment - Experimenting to solve food production problems - 25%

The course opens the opportunity for employment in the food sector from hospitality to retail as well as providing the underpinning knowledge for degree level study in Nutrition, Public Health, Dietetics, Food Science and Technology.