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Cooking and nutrition: Come dine with me
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ARCHIVED Year 6: Cooking and nutrition: Come dine with me

Developing a three-course menu focused on three key ingredients as part of a paired challenge to develop the best class recipes.

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Find a suitable recipe for their course.
  • Record the relevant ingredients and equipment needed.
  • Follow a recipe, including using the correct quantities of each ingredient.
  • Write a recipe, explaining the process taken.
  • Explain where certain key foods come from before they appear on the supermarket shelf.

Suggested prior learning

ARCHIVED Year 5: Cooking and nutrition: What could be healthier?

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Three ingredients; three courses

To research and design a three-course meal
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Lesson 2: To start…

To prepare a meal using a recipe; To understand where their food comes from; To write up a recipe*
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Lesson 3: The main course

To prepare a meal using a recipe; To understand where their food comes from; To write up a recipe*
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Lesson 4: Dessert

To prepare a meal using a recipe; To understand where their food comes from; To write up a recipe*
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Key skills

  • Writing a recipe, explaining
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Key knowledge

  • To know that ‘flavour’
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Key vocabulary

equipment

flavours

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Cross-curricular opportunities

Science

‘Pupils should be taught to:

  • recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function’

See National curriculum - Science key stages 1 and 2.

 

RSE & PSHE

‘Pupils should know:

  • the principles of planning and preparing a range of healthy meals.’

See PSHE Association Programme of Study.

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