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Year 10

Curriculum Map

This curriculum map provides an overview of the hospitality and catering journey students will experience throughout the academic year. It outlines the sequence of theoretical knowledge, food preparation techniques, and practical assessments designed to monitor and support student progress. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge progressively, with each unit providing the foundation for future learning, ensuring all students develop an understanding of the hospitality industry, nutritional knowledge, and practical catering skills appropriate to their age and stage.

Half Term Unit(s) of Work Key Assessments
Autumn 1 Unit 2 - Project 1 - Blue Parrot Cafe 
  • Task 1a - Analysis of the brief  
  • Task 1a Understanding the importance of nutrition. 
  • Task 1b How cooking methods can impact on nutritional value
  • Organoleptic / Evaluation techniques 
  • Weekly practical’s 
Dish relevant to brief and customer – link portion control/presentation and nutrients. 
Unit 1 - Health and safety in hospitality and catering provision. 
Food safety 
Sensory analysis 
Cooking methods – impacts on nutrients
Understanding and knowledge of:
  • Health and safety in hospitality and catering provision
  • Food safety 
Autumn 2 Unit 2 - Project 2 - Bistro 
  • Task 1a & task 1b - retrieval and developing 
  • Task 2a Menu Factors 
  • Task 2b - Time Plan  
  • Weekly practical’s 
Dish relevant to brief and customer – link portion control/presentation and nutrients. 
Time Plan 
Menu Factors – Environment / Seasonality 
Unit 1 
  • Food related causes of ill health 
  • Symptoms and signs of food-induced ill health 
  • Preventative control measures of food-induced ill health 
  • The environmental health officer (EHO) 
Understanding and knowledge of:
  • Food related causes of ill health 
  • Symptoms and signs of food-induced ill health 
  • Preventative control measures of food-induced ill health 
  • The environmental health officer (EHO) 
Spring 1 & Spring 2 Unit 2 - Project 3 - Italian 
  • Task 1a & task 1b - retrieval and mastery 
  • Task 2a Menu Factors - retrieval
  • Task 2b - Time Plan - retrieval 
  • Task 4a - Evaluation of dishes 
  • Weekly practical’s 
Dish relevant to brief and customer – link portion control/presentation and nutrients. 
Evaluation – review of dishes & overall performance 

Spring 2 - March Work Experience 


Unit 1 – Hospitality & Catering Provision 
How hospitality and catering providers operate.
 

Understanding and knowledge of:
  • Hospitality & Catering Providers
  • Working in the industry 
  • Working conditions 
  • Successful factors for catering provisions 
  • Operations 
  • Customer requirements 
  • Meeting specific needs 
Summer 1 & Summer 2

Summer 1 & 2 Project 4 - IVYBROOKE BRIEF Mock Assessment - LAST TERM 

  • Task 1a & task 1b - retrieval and mastery 
  • Task 2a Menu Factors - retrieval and mastery 
  • Task 2b - Time Plan - retrieval and mastery 
  • Task 3 - Practical assessment - skills assessment - retrieval and mastery 
  • Task 4a - Evaluation of dishes - retrieval and mastery 
  • Task 4b - Analysis of performance - retrieval and mastery 
Time Plan
Mock practical exam 
Evaluation 
Unit 1 – mock exam paper from previous year