Food.

Year 7.
Students develop knife skills, learn safety in the kitchen and improve their awareness and knowledge of healthy eating. Fruit salad, stir fry, sandwich design and cake modifications among other practical sessions.

Year 8.
Students extend skills and knowledge of healthy eating to incorporate healthy diet, biscuits bread and sauces.

Year 9.
Students focus on the 2012 Olympics, foods from around the world and  multicultural foodsincluding soups, stuffed vegetables, pasta dishes curry and hand-made burger modifications.

Year 10 and 11.
Students follow the new AQA specification for food technology developing and extending skills in the kitchen through to an exam board set task that pulls experiences together in a 60% coursework project with a 40% final exam.

Catering.

Year 10 and 11.
Students follow the WJEC exam board New Specification GCSE
This option is relatively new at St Benedict's that allows students the opportunity for a more practical based approach to GCSE spreading the coursework over years 10 and 11 with assessed practical lessons the option of work experience and a 40% final exam.