The Design & Technology Department

KS5 Design and Technology: Technology

Exam Board: AQA

Why study Food Technology?
Our lifestyles are rapidly changing. Our demand for interesting places to eat out and high quality ‘ready prepared’products to eat at home has resulted in the food industry is one of the biggest growth industries in the UK.

Studying Food Technology to A level will equip you to be part of this growth. The specification has been designed to
encourage candidates to take a broad view of design and technology, and food science and nutrition, to develop their capacity to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relations between designs, materials, manufacture and marketing.

What will you study?

Year 12 (AS)
Unit 1 – FOOD 1 - Materials, Components and Application
Unit 2 – FOOD 2 - Learning Through Designing and Making - A written (or electronic) design portfolio with manufactured outcome(s.)
The coursework may take a number of forms: a single design-and-make project, two smaller projects or a
portfolio of work. The coursework requires approximately 50 hours of guided study.

Year 13 (A2)
Unit 3 – FOOD 3 - Design and Manufacture
Unit 4 – FOOD 4 - Designing and Making Practice. This is a coursework portfoliowhich requires amanufactured outcome. Candidates submit evidence of a single, substantial designing and making activity. This may be produced as a written (or electronic) design folder.

Method of assessment
Unit 1 - this is tested by 2 hour written paper worth 50%of AS, 25% of A Level
Unit 2 – an internally assessed portfolio and practical project. 50% of AS, 25% of A Level.
Unit 3 – this is tested by 2 hourwritten paperworth 25% of the A Level.
Unit 4 – The coursework portfolio and practical outcome is also internally assessed and worth 25% of the A Level

Future prospects
An A level in Food Technology will make it easier to follow a university course in subjects such as Food Technology, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health Nutrition, Animal Nutrition, also Catering and Hospitality.
The type of careers which you could follow include: food designers, people to develop new products, managers for
producing the products, people to market them, demonstrators working with food, food writers, hotel management, catering management, nutritionist, dieticians, animal nutritionist.