GCSE: Food & Science Practical Skills

This day is divided into two three hour practical workshops. 

Practical: Extended Meat and Fish – Simon Gray

• Brushing up on the more complex skills – filleting round fish and chicken
• Improving attainment by extending your students repertoire of dishes
• Useful teaching strategies to minimize common mistakes
• Managing one hour lessons and the longer practical exam

Practical: Fun Food Science – Joe Mann

• Fun practical food science activities to create engagement and interest in the classroom:
• Top tips, tricks, techniques, starters and plenaries to engage and motivate all students
• Engaging investigations of functional and chemical properties of food brought to life and put into a practical context to keep students on task
• Resources to use and adapt for your science practical’s to suit all ability students

A more detailed programme and updates will be emailed regularly in the autumn if you sign up for the newsletter www.foodteacherscentre.co.uk

How to Book – and queries

 For further information about this event please contact SIMON GRAY on Simon.Gray@foodteacherscentre.co.uk  or call on  07766 222262

Tickets must be booked and paid in advance, so that we can cater for you properly.  To make this easy we use Eventbrite to automate the bookings via credit card and cheque.You receive your ticket by email, with full VAT invoice. 

PLEASE NOTE your booking confirmation and ticket will be emailed to both the food teacher and person purchasing.  If you do not receive your ticket it is most commonly caused by typing your email address incorrectly, or it is in your SPAM folder.  Please check your booking carefully.

Why the food teacher’s email address is so important

Please supply a direct email address for the food teacher. It is VERY important that your school finance manager supplies your full name and PERSONAL- SCHOOL email so that we are able to send you joining instructions and further details.  If we only receive the ‘school office’ email address, we have found in the past that this delays information getting to you or information is not passed on.   We will be contacting you with final details and joining instructions

If you have any queries, please ask via Eventbrite messaging, and leave your phone number or email so that we can contact you easily. 

Terms and conditions

1.  Once booked, if you cannot come – we will try our best to refund you.  You can send someone else, but you may not get a refund unless we can resell your ticket
2. The draft programme might be subject to change, for example, speakers can be ill. We would always endeavor to run the day as advertised.

What do people say about our events?

I would definitely attend this event again and would recommend it to others, very valuable experience and it didn’t matter that it took up part of the weekend.

It was the first relevant course I have been on for years!!!.......Brilliant

Fantastic overall, highly motivating speakers.

It is the first event of this kind I have attended specifically aimed at Food Technology teachers, I think the community that has grown is unique and I feel lucky to be part of it and also to have got a place on the event

About the Food Teachers Centre

Better food teaching

FOOD TEACHER CENTRE is a UK based self-help group founded by Louise T Davies in 2013 and supported by experienced associates. It provides a platform to exchange best practice, give advice and support to less experienced teachers, answering practical concerns and keeping them abreast of the latest curriculum changes. A one-stop shop for like-minded professionals who seek help and information.  It is free to take part and is facilitated through a closed on-line group, safeguarding the conversations of the teaching staff. This pro-active group has nearly 3,000 food teachers taking part. 

The idea of a 'Teacher's Centre' is a response to the lack of local and national specialist support and diminishing Continuing Professional Development with the demise of local authority advisers ASTs, lead practitioners and supporting organisations.

The Centre utilises new technologies, not requiring a physical space in new times, but providing the same high quality service that our traditional teachers centres were recognised for.

The Food Teachers Centre is a place of

• creative and innovative ideas and action
• practical solutions
• learning and sharing 

Join Closed groupwww.facebook.com/groups/foodteachers

 LIKE public pagewww.facebook.com/foodteacherscentreuk

 Visit website www.foodteacherscentre.co.uk

 Food Teachers Centre hosts regional and national events reaching around 2,000 secondary food teachers each year, works with all the major government agencies (Ofsted, Department for Education, School Food Plan) and partnering with key industry representatives (Agriculture Horticulture Development Board, Chilled Food Association, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Springboard UK). To promote its aim of better food teaching.

 Our team offers a range of consultancy services at a national, local authority and school level: 

• creating and writing new teaching resources for food education
• helping local authorities plan training events
• providing speakers and workshop leaders
• working alongside teachers to improve exam results or teaching 

If you need some help with any aspect of food education and think that we may be able to help you, please feel free to contact us at info@foodteacherscentre.co.uk

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