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Home Economics 2012 GCSE Practicals

cmccrossan209 — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:22:25 +0000

HE students visit Mourne Seafood

M Feron — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:24:36 +0000

GCSE Home Economics Practical Arrangements

M Feron — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:12:50 +0000

Teacher: Mrs McCrossan

Date	Time	Teacher	Pupils
Fri 3rd Feb	p3-8	CMC	C.HoustonA.MurrayR.HughesS.Cowan S. Kelly
Mon 13th Feb	p1-6	CMC	H. SingletonC.RobinsonK.McGuiganN.McComb B.Lambon
Tues 28th Feb	p1-6	CMC	R.McVeighA.HoustonA.GlackinO.Casey O.Campbell
Fri 2nd Mar	p5-10	CMC	D. TinnenyB.McCloskeyA.LaveryJ.Hookings C.Dunlop

Teacher: Mrs Evans

31st Jan 2012 Periods 1-6	8th Feb 2012 Periods 5-10	14th Feb 2012 Periods 3-8	29th Feb Periods 5 – 10
Amy Dean	Ruairí Patterson	Niall Kelly	Alex McC
Natasha Mulholland	JJ O’Reilly	Megan Bradley	Patricia Cowan
Louise Shearer	Alex Patterson	Amaia Moore	Caití Connolly
Madeleine Magee	Kate Wilson	Emer Murray	Ciaran Foster
Anna Browne	Holly Dalton	Megan Coll	Niamh McCreery

Year 9 design new breakfast cereals in Home Economics

cmccrossan209 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:01:00 +0000

Home Economics Trip to Loughry College.

cmccrossan209 — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:04:59 +0000

Home Economics Revision

cmccrossan209 — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:57:34 +0000

Year 8 assessment

The end of year assessment will be as set out in pupils topic/unit booklet;

oral assessment – 10 marks
written coursework project – 40 marks
practical cookery exam – 50 marks

there will be no end of year written test but there will be a file inspection of all year 8 work which needs to be kept for Year 9.

Year 9 assessment

The end of year assessment will be as set out in pupils topic/unit booklet;

oral assessment – 10 marks
written coursework project – 30 marks
practical cookery exam – 60 marks
end of year exam – 50 marks

exam topics;

calcium,osteoporosis
NSP/dietary fibre
CHD , types of fats, saturated, poly, omega 3
pregnancy,folic acid, breastfeeding
babies/children, weaning
teenagers, anaemia
breakfasts
CHD, typres of fat

year 10

The end of year assessment will be as set out in pupils topic/unit booklet;

written coursework project - 35 marks
practical cookery exam – 40 marks
exam – 55 marks

Exam topics;

culture & food customs
religous beliefs – kosher, hala; etc..
ethical beliefs – organic, fair trade etc..
food poisoning
food hygiene
sale of goods act
calcium/ osteoporosis
cereals and cereal products

Home Economics GCSE 2011

cmccrossan209 — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:34:15 +0000

Two Pupils to represent Northern Ireland in ‘ITV’s Britain’s Best Dish’

cmccrossan209 — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:42:51 +0000

Anna Browne and Madeleine Magee, two Year 11 students, have successfully completed auditions and interviews to represent Northern Ireland in the ITV programme Britain’s Best Dish. They will travel to London on 12th March for filming. They will then enter the elimination rounds and meet the famous judges, Mark Nicholas, John Burton Race, Ed Baines and JIlly Goolden. We wish them every success! Their recipes can be found on the Home Economics site.

Home Economics

cmccrossan209 — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:58:19 +0000

GCSE pupils celebrate success in GCSE Home Economics. Katie Campbell and Amy Cormick receive awards for both achieving the highest candidate and top mark. Laura McAllister receives the Culinary Cup for the best practcal skills and her success in winning the Futurechef cookery competition.

Halloween Cookery in Home Economics

cmccrossan209 — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:57:17 +0000

Mrs Evans and Year 12 students marked halloween by making novelty foods on the theme of ghosts, ghouls and withches.