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About the Course:
This particular specification aims to allow students to demonstrate creativity, with making of food product a vital feature of their experience, allowing candidates to be prepared for higher level courses and the world of work.
- During this course you will have the opportunity to:
Be involved in making decisions, consider sustainability and combine skills with knowledge and understanding in order to design and make quality food products
- Explore ways in which aesthetic, technical, economic, environmental, ethical and social dimensions interact to shape designing and making
- Analyse existing products and produce practical solutions to needs, wants and opportunities, recognising their impact on quality of life
- Develop decision-making skills through individual and collaborative working
- Understand that designing and making reflect and influence cultures and societies, and that products have an impact on lifestyle
- Develop skills of creativity and critical analysis through making links between the principles of good design, existing solutions and technological knowledge.
What type of student would suit this course:
- Need to be able to think, with an open mind about a variety of design situations
- Need to be able to record and discuss ideas through drawings and notes
- Need to have good practical skills, i.e. have completed KS3 practical food assignments
- Need to be able to recognise good design and recognise and reject those of lesser value
- Need to be confident and effective users of ICT. Where appropriate, opportunities will be given to use ICT in order to further study of CAM, data handling, and word processing.
The examination board in this subject is: AQA. Their website is: aqa.org.uk
The levels of award available to you in this subject are:
This scheme of assessment is not tiered, covering all of the ability range grades from A*–G.
Candidates achieving less than the minimum mark for Grade G will be ungraded
Candidates who gain Grades D–G will have achieved an award at Foundation Level 1
Candidates who gain Grades A*–C will have achieved an award at Intermediate Level 2
The assessment for this subject is:
Unit title and description |
Assessment and duration |
Full course Weighting |
Unit 45451: Written paper in
2 sections
Section A – A design question based on a context supplied by the exam board.
Section B – Questions based on coverage of specification content.
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2 hours Written examination
120 marks
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40% of final marks
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Unit 45452: Design and making practice
A single design and make activity from a list of tasks set by the exam board.
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Approx 45 hour Controlled assessment
90 marks
Assessed through a 20 page A3 design folder including photographs and ICT evidence.
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60% of final marks
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If you would like more information about this subject you should see Mrs G Showell or Ms L Benton
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