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  • General

    FOOD TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

    Welcome to the Food Technology and Nutrition Department

    From here you will find links to specific course pages, as well as general course information for each different subject offered. 


    Tertiary Education and Careers options in Nutrition - information from the NZ Nutrition Society

    • Year 9 Food Technology - Hangarau kai

      In Year 9 students may choose to study Food Technology - this is one of the Technology option choices. Yr9 FDT is a one semester course (approximately 2 terms). There are 5 classes over the two-week timetable, and on average, students have practical lessons once a week. Students are required to bring some of their own ingredients for these lessons.

      In the first unit of Food Technology, students cover some very fundamental topics and concepts such as preparing food safely, food preparation skills and basic nutrition, as well as establishing a sound understanding of the Technology Cycle and the concepts and terminology associated with this. This ensures all students have a sound skills and knowledge base prior to the next focus units.

      In the next units students work on specific technology tasks, working through the technological process. This involves the students being creative and trialling their own original ideas for solutions to an 'issue'.  Outcomes will include a variety of recipes using a specific kitchen 'gadget'.

      Log in to the Yr9 Food Technology course page to find out specific information.

    • Year 10 Food Technology  -  Hangarau kai 

      Year 10 Food Technology is a full year option subject. The course covers a wide variety of topics throughout the year, with practical work once a week on average. Topics covered include food hygiene, technology focus units and cultural foods.

      This course provides a solid foundation for further study in Food and Nutrition OR Food Technology at Levels 1, 2 & 3 NCEA.

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    What is Senior Food and Nutrition all about ??

    • What is senior Food and Nutrition all about File

      What is Senior Food and Nutrition all about 


      This information sheet outlines the courses available in Yr 11, 12 and 13 with a focus on nutrition. This subject is worthwhile taking for everyone, no matter what career you are looking toward for your future. The concepts covered are relevant for all people in their everyday lives !!

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    Year 11 Food and Nutrition - kai hauora

    Year 11 Food and Nutrition is a Level 1 NCEA course.

    In this course, students will learn about healthy eating for teenagers and how to keep food safe and free of food poisoning. They will investigate foods from other countries, analyse societal influences on food choice and well being, and learn  how to read and make sense of all that information on food labels and packets.

    Students will cook healthy meals and gain valuable practical life skills to set themselves up well in their first flat.

    11FDN is a full Achievement Standard course offering internal and external credits.

    This course leads to 12FDN and 13FDN (which is UE approved) and to a possible career in dietetics, sports nutrition, food technology or in the hospitality industry.

     

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    Year 12 Food and Nutrition - kai hauora

    Year 12 Food and Nutrition is a Level 2 NCEA course.

              

    This is a full Achievement Standard course offering both internal and external credits. This course leads into 13FDN (which is UE approved) and into a possible career in dietetics, sports nutrition, nutrition related fields, food and nutrition teaching, food technology etc.

    Students will learn about sports nutrition; how families in NZ are struggling to feed themselves enough nutritious food and reasons for this; they will investigate a range of sustainable food-related practices and evaluate these, and take a critical look at the influence the media has on food and healthy eating in NZ. 

    Each week students will cook foods relevant to these topics and learn to challenge and question current thinking on nutrition.

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    Year 13 Food and Nutrition - kai hauora

     

     

    Year 13 Food and Nutrition is a Level 3 NCEA course

    13FDN is UE approved and offers a full Achievement Standard Course made up of internal and external credits.

    Students will learn about some of the big issues surrounding food today eg: food miles, over-consumption of energy-dense foods, the influence of media and advertising on our food choices, and the influence of multinational food corporations on our food choices etc. They will learn to think critically about the foods we have available, the foods they choose to eat, and be able to justify their own food choices and the food choices of others.

    Authentic practical lessons are an important component of this course, although the assessment emphasis is on the academic aspects.

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    "Burnside Kitchen Rules - BKR" Videos

    Check these out to find out about our practical Foods rooms routines and procedures you are expected to follow smile  

    Then do the quiz at the end and show your teacher when you get 100% !!!!!  (take a screen shot, or photo on your phone etc etc)

    Thanks to the awesome Yr9 FDT students from 2012 who assisted in the production of these !!

    • BKR Practical Competency Quiz

      BKR Practical Competency Quiz

      This quiz needs to be completed and 100% correct to attain your BKR Practical Competency. Please click on the link above to take this quiz.

      Once you have achieved 100%, you need to show evidence of this to your teacher (you could 'snip' an image of your score and name from the results page & email it to your teacher, take a photo of the screen with your phone camera to show them etc) 

    • WORKSTATION SET UP



    • At the beginning of EACH practical lesson, you need to set up a workstation per pair. The table should first be sanitised using the Sanitiser (pink) spray OR wiped with the microfibre cloth, an underboard cloth should be wet, wrung out and placed on the table, and an appropriate chopping board for your practical should be placed on top. A large knife should be collected from the trolley and placed above the chopping board. And finally, the unit rubbish bucket / scrap bowl should be placed in a central position as in the photograph above.