Food and Catering Studies

The Food studies department at Sawyers Hall is extremely well resourced with two state of the art food rooms.
It is a subject in which students can achieve regardless of ability. It’s a subject in which all can take part and become creative.

All students in key stage 3 study the subject and then have the chance to choose Hospitality and Catering at key stage 4 for study at GCSE level.

What students have said about the subject?

“It’s not just cooking”

“I have really enjoyed learning different aspects of hospitality and catering”

“Its great you get to be creative in food”

Across all the key stages the students have the chance to take part in activities and competitions within the department.

Key stage 2

Within the school year we run a number of taster classes (lets make cooking fun!!) when year 5 and 6 get a chance to come and use the facilities. Pizza, cake making are just some of the activities we have done.
We try to get the year 7 students involved by assisting in the lessons.

Food safety foundation certificate

Students in year 10 complete 6 hours of e learning study to gain basic foundation training in food safety. On successful completion of the programme students achieve a personalised certificate featuring the RIPH logo.
This helps students to grain part time jobs in catering as by law all food handlers need to be trained in food safety.

Future chef

Future chef is run by springboard charitable trust and forms part of its high profile national schools programme. It is designed to help students learn about food and is based on a nationwide, four staged competition. Each year we run a school based heat were all years compete against each other for the school trophy (the Hedley Walter cup). The winner then goes off and competes at a local heat.

Active kids get cooking

The food awards are supported by Sainsbury’s. They are design to run along the school curriculum. Students gain collectable certificates which show off their food knowledge awards run from bronze in year 7 to platinum in year 11.
These are run in lessons or in a after school food club.

Community links
Have made links in the community at Montbazon court care home run by East living.
This is a 26 flat site with on site care staff. The students have been able to use the fully equipped industrial kitchen and dinning room to run functions for the residents.
This is great for key stage 4 gcse students studying hospitality and catering.