Health and Wellbeing

1. Health and Wellbeing HFT department

2. National Courses in HFT • National 5Practical Cookery • Firstly it is no longer known as Hospitality – now called Practical Cookery • Pupils should be aiming to attend all lessons so that they don’t miss out on cookery demonstrations and practical cookery practices as well as the theory work

3. Health & Wellbeing - HFT • National 5 Practical Cookery (continued) • The course award is broken down as follows: • 25% Written Exam (1 hour) • 62 % Practical Cookery exam (cook a set three course meal in 2 hours 20 minutes) • 13% timeplan, service details and equipment list (1 hour 45mins) • All of these are carried out under exam conditions

4. What can pupils & parents/carers do to help? • Pupils should be encouraged as much as possible to cook at home practising the skills and recipes they are following in school • Pupils should be practising past paper questions and exam style questions which will be supplied by their teacher or can be found on the SQA website • Pupils need to make sure they understand how to answer different questions depending on the different command words e.g. Explain, describe, evaluate • Ask teacher for help!

5. Health & Food Technology (HFT) • Assessment: • 60 marks • completed in SQA exam diet • one hour and 50 minutes exam • Assignment: • 60 marks • completed under supervision and control in class • Sent to SQA for external marking

6. HFT (continued) • Assignment • Start a food product development assignment after prelims • Extremely important that pupils keep to deadlines put in place by the teacher • This counts for half of the overall grade

7. HFT (continued) • Exam • Pupils should be practising past paper questions and exam style questions which will be issued by teacher or can be found on the SQA website • Pupils need to make sure they understand how to answer different questions depending on the different command words e.g. Explain, describe, evaluate.

8. What can pupils and parents/carers do? • Pupils should read over notes/ PP slides/ Handouts • Look at websites/you tube channels for various organisations that help protect the consumer, offer nutrition and health information or offer sustainability information e.g. Fairtrade, British nutrition foundation, Food standards Scotland, NHS website • Teacher will refer to these in lessons • Ask for help!

9. Early Learning and Childcare (ECC) • Currently presenting pupils at National 5 and National 4 levels • Early Education and Childcare is an introductory qualification that will help learners to understand some of the demands and responsibilities of working in the early education and childcare sector

10. ECC (continued) • Cover basic issues in each area and begin to develop relevant skills such as team working skills and helping to plan play experiences • Pupils also develop transferable employability skills, including: • an understanding of the workplace and the employee’s responsibilities (eg time-keeping, appearance, customer care) • self-evaluation skills • positive attitude to learning • flexible approaches to solving problems • adaptability and positive attitude to change

11. ECC (continued) Assessment To achieve a pass pupils must pass the following 3 units plus one other optional unit: • Development and Wellbeing of Children and Young People • Play in Early Learning and Childcare • Working in Early Learning and Childcare