Creatives Corner aims to produce lessons and activities that are fun, engaging and inclusive. To show a committment in supporting teachers to achieve the ideal work-life balance, we also provide a range of free and paid for resources that will help support heads of department and teachers with administrative tasks, such as planning and marking.
Creatives Corner aims to produce lessons and activities that are fun, engaging and inclusive. To show a committment in supporting teachers to achieve the ideal work-life balance, we also provide a range of free and paid for resources that will help support heads of department and teachers with administrative tasks, such as planning and marking.
**Explore the Flavors of the World! **
This exciting 1-hour lesson introduces students to global cuisines and the cultural significance of food. Perfect for Key Stage 3 & 4 Food Technology, this resource is designed to kickstart an 18-week course on international food traditions.
Lesson Overview:
Starter Task: A matching exercise to spark curiosity about world cuisines.
Main Activity: Group work using detailed fact sheets on England, Nigeria, Pakistan, Italy, Mexico, and Poland, covering key ingredients, traditional dishes, and eating customs.
Discussion & Collaboration: Students explore how climate, geography, and history shape national cuisines.
Review & Reflection: Two higher-order thinking questions to consolidate learning and encourage deeper analysis.
What’s Included?
Fully editable PowerPoint slides
6 Country Fact Sheets with key food insights
Discussion Questions & Review Tasks
Printable materials for group work and class discussion
Learning Outcomes:
Understand how food reflects cultural identity and traditions
Identify key ingredients and dishes from different global cuisines
Analyse how geography and climate influence food choices
Ideal for Food Technology, Food & Nutrition, Hospitality & Catering, and cross-curricular learning in Geography and Cultural Studies.
*Download now and bring global flavors into your classroom! *
This lesson is the second lesson in introducing students to an assignment brief.
The first lesson can be found here.
The third lesson can be found here.
This lesson uses past cooking recipes (Pea and Mint Soup, Macaroni Cheese and Chilli con Carne), allowing students to explore the nutrients in each dish as well as identify the cooking methods applied.
This is a scaffolded lesson slide 6 (I do), slide 7 (we do), slide 8 (you do).
Learning Objectives:
To be able to recall a range of cooking methods.
To be able to describe what happens to food ingredients when cooking methods applied.
By then end of the lesson students should have a clear idea of how to complete this task to gain full marks.
This bundle provides you with the first half term of lessons for the Hospitality and Catering Technical Award.
Included in this bundle:
Introduction to Hospitality and Catering
Lesson 1 - Food Related Ill Health: Bacteria
Lesson 2 - Understanding the importance of nutrition: Vitamins
Lesson 3 - Food safety legislations
Lesson 4 - Food safety legislations (Part2)
Lesson 5 - Understanding the importance of nutrition: Minerals
Lesson 6 - Practical: Pea and Mint Soup
Lesson 7 - Understanding the importance of nutrition: Fats 1
Lesson 8 - Understanding the importance of nutrition: Carbohydrates 1
Lesson 9 - Understanding the importance of nutrition: Carbohydrates 2
Lesson 10 - Practical: Macaroni Cheese
Lessons are provided in the Microsoft PowerPoint format
Exam Style Starters
Mini Plenaries and Plenaries
Timers
Learning activities
Homework tasks
This is a 1 hour lesson on allergies and intolerances, mainly allergies.
This lesson could be part of a 2 hour lesson also.
Part of the NEW WJEC Hospitality and Catering Technical Award as well as any other food preparation and nutrition course.
**Learning Objective: **
To be able to recall different allergens.
To understand the importance of avoiding cross contamination of allergens.
To be able to adapt a recipe for customers who have allergies and food intolerances.
Included:
Starter and Plenary
Automated Dates Embedded to PPT
Scenario based activity
Case Study
Challenge Task
PDF Resources
Timers
This is a 1 hour lesson on cross contamination.
Could be used as part of the NEW WJEC Hospitality and Catering course as well as any other food preparation and nutrition course.
**Learning Objective: **
To be able to identify different types of cross contamination.
To state the key temperatures of food safety.
To identify ways to prevent cross contamination.
Included:
Starter and Plenary
Automated Dates Embedded to PPT
Questioning questions included
4 Activities
Challenge Task
PDF Resources
Timers
This Booklet includes worksheets and a practical record sheet for the following lessons:
Food safety: The 4Cs, Bacteria and Hygiene
Healthy Snacks: Product Analysis / Apple and Berry Crumble Demonstration
Practical: Apple and Berry Crumble
Knife Cutting Skills, Weighing and Measuring
Yeast Experiement
Practical: Bread Dough
Practical: Bread Dough
Enzymic Browning
We teach students as part of a carousel, in which they are with us for 1.5 terms. This booklet is for the first 1/3 of the carousel.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Pakistani Cuisine
This engaging and informative lesson introduces students to the culture, flavours, and ingredients of Pakistani cuisine. It builds upon prior knowledge of English and Nigerian cuisine to develop cultural understanding and culinary awareness.
Includes:
Starter task (deeper-thinking on food & culture)
Keyword and definition: Cuisine
Interactive spice-smelling activity and “Guess the Ingredient†game
Discussion of popular dishes (Biryani, Chicken Karahi, Samosas)
Nutritional breakdown of common ingredients
Lesson 2: Baked Samosas Practical
A hands-on cooking lesson where students prepare and bake their own samosas, as a group, using a spiced vegetable filling and homemade pastry. The lesson links practical skills to nutrition and reinforces cultural understanding.
Learning Objectives:
To be able to identify the nutritional needs of people at different life stages
To know which foods people can/cannot eat when they are on a special diet or have a medical condition.
This 2 hour lesson introduces students to the different life stages covered in the WJEC Hospitality and Catering Technical Award. Student will complete a mindmap, that details the activities each lifestage carry out daily and the nutrients needed to support them in these activites.
The second half of the lesson focuses on introducing students to the medical conditions that influence diet.
Included:
Starter, mini plenaries and Plenary
PDF Resources
Timers
This informative, one-hour lesson dives into the essential topic of fats, helping students recognise different sources of fats and understand their functions within the human body. Through clear explanations and an engaging game, students will be introduced to the importance of fats, including energy provision, nutrient absorption, and insulation. The lesson concludes with an exam-style question as a plenary to reinforce learning and assess understanding.
Learning Objectives:
Identify different types of fat
Understand the function of fat in the human diet
Ideal for KS3 and KS4 food science and nutrition classes, this resource includes complete presentation slides, and a worksheet for the starter task. Designed to meet curriculum standards, it provides all you need for an engaging, informative introduction session on fats in the diet.
This 2 hour lesson is the third lesson in introducing students to the Unit 2 assignment.
The first lesson can be found here.
The second lesson can be found here.
This lesson requires students to use their own chosen dishes from this assessment.
Learning Objective:
To be able to discuss environmental issues that affect the choice of dishes on a menu
Includes:
Timers
Sentence Starters
Scenario Cards
Questioning
You can find a bundle on the environmental factors of menu planning here.
This is a 1 hour lesson based on students exploring seasonal foods.
Could be used as part of the NEW WJEC Hospitality and Catering course as well as any other food preparation and nutrition course.
**Learning Objective: **
To be able to define seasonal foods
To be able to explain the benefits of seasonal foods
To be able to produce a recipe for each season, that includes seasonal ingredients
Included:
Starter, mini plenary (based on the keyword) and Plenary
Automated Dates Embedded to PPT
3 Activities
Challenge Task
PDF Resources
Timers
This lesson aims to introduce students in Year 10 to Unit 2 of the WJEC Hospitality and Catering Assignment Brief.
The brief created is fictional and requires students to identify the nutrients in their chosen dishes and explain how it meets the nutritional needs of the customer.
Students are provided with 3 different example answers in which they should use the assessors mark scheme (from the WJEC Portal) to mark the example pieces.
Students will work with the teacher to write their own answer, and will then complete the second dish as homework, which should be marked by teacher before the next lesson.
*Does not include sentence starters - sold separately
This is a 1 hour lesson on cereals.
It could be used as part of the NEW WJEC Hospitality and Catering course as well as any other food preparation and nutrition course.
This lesson is KS3 Friendly.
**Learning Objective: **
To learn about different groups of commodities.
To know how different commodities are used.
To know how to store commodities correctly.
Included:
Starter and Plenary
Automated Dates Embedded to PPT
6 Engaging Activities
1 Bonus Question
PDF Resources
Timers
This is a 2 hour lesson on the role and responsibility of Environmental Health Officers and could be used as part of the NEW WJEC Hospitality and Catering Technical award
**Learning Objective: **
To be able to describe the role of the Environmental Health Officer
To be able to state what Environmental Health officers look for during an inspection
To be able to identify the responsibilities of an environmental health officer
Included:
Exam paper based Starter and Plenary
Automated Dates Embedded to PPT
Questioning questions included
Scenario based activites
PPT Resources
Timers
UPDATED - 12/12/24
This engaging lesson introduces students to the world of dairy, focusing on milk and its many forms. Through interactive activities, students will learn to identify a variety of dairy foods and understand the unique nutritional benefits they offer. This resource includes a detailed presentation, worksheets, and activities to reinforce learning. Suitable for KS3 and KS4, this lesson helps students develop a deeper understanding of the role of dairy in a balanced diet, including key nutrients like calcium, protein, and vitamins.
Learning Objectives:
Identify different types of dairy foods
Understand the nutritional value of dairy products
Ideal for supporting lessons on nutrition and food science, this resource aligns with curriculum standards and provides clear objectives, activities, and assessment tools to ensure a comprehensive learning experience.
This 1 hour lesson continues from part 1, where the term HACCP has been introduced.
Students can be given homework prior to this lesson to find out what a HACCP is - which will support with the starter.
This lesson forms as a masterclass in how to complete a HACCP form. Throughout the course, students are asked to complete a HACCP form for their practicals completed.
**Learning Objectives: **
To be able to explain what a HACCP is used for
To effectively identify hazards and critical control points for a Pea and Mint Soup Recipe.
Suitable to teach as part of the NEW WJEC Hospitality and Catering (Technical) Course
Included:
Exam style starter, mini plenary and exit pass
2 learning activities
PDF Resources
Timers
Note instructions
Part 1 includes content on:
Food Safety Act 1990
Food Hygiene Regulations
Part 2 includes content on:
HACCP
Part 3 included content on:
Food Labelling Regulations
This lesson is helps to prepare students for the Unit 2, controlled assessment, for students studying the WJEC Level 1/2 Award in Hospitality and Catering.
This lesson also includes a how to guide, for the costing sheet.
This lesson requires students to have access to a PC/Chromebook.
Learning Objective:
To be able to discuss how costs affect the choice of dishes on a menu
Includes:
Timers
Excel Costing Sheet
How to guide - Costing Sheet
Lesson resources
Teachers Notes
You can find a bundle on the environmental factors of menu planning here.
This 1 hour lesson is taught to Yr7 to introduce them to Health, Safety and Hygiene.
This lesson contain 6 learning activities, to encourage engagement as well as help to keep up pace during the lesson.
The booklet for this lesson can be found here.
To be used along side the NEW WJEC Hospitality and Catering Technical Award
This practical lesson includes:
Recipe Sheet
Mis en place checklist
PPT with Mis en Place Timer
This recipe is medium to complex skill.
Recipe is suitable 1 student.
I have not included the practical record form as I use a Google Form of which students complete online after the practical.
This 2 hour lesson contains a variety of lesson activities that keep the class engaged.
**Learning Objectives: **
To be able to identify laws and regulations related to food safety.
To be able to explain the basic rules and responsibilities of hospitality and catering employers and employees in food safety.
Suitable to teach as part of the NEW WJEC Hospitality and Catering (Technical) Course
Included:
Exam style starter, mini plenary and exit pass
5 learning activities
PDF Resources
Timers
Note instructions
Part 1 includes content on:
Food Safety Act 1990
Food Hygiene Regulations
Part 2 includes content on:
HACCP
Part 3 included content on:
Food Labelling Regulations