Level 2 Food Technology
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Miss S. Brooks.
Food Technology helps students to acquire the skills and knowledge used in the field of Nutrition, Dietetics, Food Technology, Food Science, Product Design and Hospitality.
The course has three main areas of learning:
PROCESSING and PROTOTYPE: Students learn a range of processing techniques to process an advanced food product. These include testing, trialling, skill development, ingredient manipulation and health and safety.
BRIEF and CONCEPTUAL: Students explore contexts to determine an issue, need or opportunity. Research, idea generation and development is carried out to decide a creative solution to the issue. Students will interact with a range of stakeholders.
Course content: Students will complete 3 projects during the year including:
Bellissimo: Students will design and produce a pasta product for a supermarket.
Edible Art: Students will research, design, develop and produce a canape for an Art Gallery showing using current artist inspiration.
NOTE: AS 91356 and 91357 are also used in 12DET therefore it is not advisable to take 12FTE and 12DET
Students with known food allergies will need to discuss with the HOD an action plan for managing this in class before taking part in any practical lessons.
Recommended Prior Learning
Completion of Year 11 Food Technology or with permission from the HOD.
Course Costs and Equipment/ Stationery requirements
We are requesting a voluntary payment of $110 to go towards running a high quality course with a good range of ingredients to enhance the practical experience for students in the Food Technology programme. We believe that students really value the learning enhancements that this payment provides.
It is strongly advised that students have their own container weekly for practical lessons.
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Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Processing Technologies 2.60 - Implement advanced procedures to process a specified product
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Generic Technology 2.1 - Undertake brief development to address an issue
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Generic Technology 2.3 - Develop a conceptual design for an outcome
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Generic Technology 2.4 - Undertake effective development to make and trial a prototype
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We aim to enable every student to have the course that they prefer, however, some courses have limited places or pre-requisits that may restrict the student's choice.