Year 9 Overview
Child Development: Part One ‘The Family’ Section.
- The Family
- Roles within the Family
- Planning a Family
- Reproduction
- Contraception
- Pre-conceptual Care
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s)
- Genetic Counselling
- Conception: the Start of a new life
- The Baby’s Support System
- Development of the Foetus During Pregnancy
- Multiple Pregnancies
- Pregnancy
- Antenatal Care
- Testing During pregnancy
- Screening and Diagnostic Tests
- Problems During Pregnancy
- A Healthy Diet During Pregnancy
- A Healthy Lifestyle During Pregnancy
- Planning the Birth
- The Birth
- Types of Pain Relief
- Technology and Medical Assistance During Birth
- Preparation for the Baby
Curriculum
Year 9 Overview
Product Design.
Students will complete a mini GCSE style project based on storage solutions.
Students will expand their working knowledge of workshop machinery including the safe operation and use of the wood lathe.
Food Technology: Multicultural Project
The knowledge, understanding and confidence to cook meals at home
An understanding of how to economise when planning a meal
An ability to transfer skills learned to different recipes
An ability to inspire others by transferring that knowledge
- Research on countries and their cultural differences
- Analyse equipment from around the world
- Practical projects include (British bake off, Christmas project, Easter project and outlet project based around a chosen country)
Year 10 overview
Child Development: Part Two ‘Care of the Child’ and Controlled Assessment (Research Task worth 20% of final overall grade).
- The New Born Baby
- Handling a New Born Baby
- Special Care Babies
- Post-Natal Care
- A Healthy Diet
- Breast-feeding
- Bottle feeding
- Weaning
- Feeding Older babies and young children
- Influences on food choices
- Junk food and Labelling
- Food related Problems
- Bath time
- Nappies
- Toilet Training
- Safety
- Preventing Accidents
- Safety Outdoors
- Clothing and footwear
- Childcare Provision
- Child Health
- Infectious Diseases
- Childhood Ailments
- Care of the Sick Child
- First Aid
Year 10 overview
Product Design:
Students will be introduced to the range of board set tasks and will choose an appropriate design task.
Students will be started on the design folio and will cover the following sections:
Design Brief
Mood board / design inspiration
Initial secondary research such as looking at the work of famous designers.
Primary research including researching and selecting an appropriate Target Market Group (TMG)
Looking at existing products
Product Disassembly and anthropometric research
TMG questionnaire and analysis
Ergonomic research
Material Research
Initial ideas
Annotated ideas
Food Technology
Practical
Pastry project
Cook chill project
Christmas project
Easter baking
Outlet cooking (multicultural theme)
Coursework
Questionnaire
Graphs
Product analysis
Target market
Plans and organisation
Specifications
Smart foods
Special diets
Year 11 overview
Child Development: Part Three ‘Development of the Child’ and a Controlled Assessment Child Study (study of a child aged 0-5 years over a number of 4 visits worth 40% of overall grade).
- Understanding Development
- Physical Growth
- Looking at Physical Development
- Encouraging Physical Development
- Intellectual Development
- What is Cognitive Development?
- Language and Communication
- Reading, Drawing and Writing
- Social and Emotional Development
- Self-image and Self-Esteem
- Behaviour
- An Overview of Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Social Development
- Play
- Toys and Other Playthings
- Books
- Television, Videos, DVD’s and computers
- Special Children
- Special Children and their Families
- Toys and Play for Children
Product Design
Year 11 overview
Students will complete their Design Folio and complete the manufacture of their chosen design.
From May onwards students will concentrate on revision and preparation for their written paper.
Food Technology
Practical
Multicultural project this is based around one country. Each student will cook between 6-10 products.
Modification exam: each pupil will modify four elements of one particular product. These modifications will include four changes.
Final practical exam: pupils will create and present a final course to be served in a restaurant.
Coursework
- Functions of ingredients
- Manufacturing specification
- Survey and evaluation
- Research plan
- Write ups for initial cooks
- 8 drawing with annotation
- Development write ups 1-4
- Final design (3D drawing)
- Stages of manufacture for final cook
- Specifications and comparisons
- Final write up