Oriel High School
Maidenbower Lane
Maidenbower
Crawley RH10 7XW
Headteacher: Philip Stack BSc MA NPQH
Deputy Headteachers: Helen Everitt BSc NPQH | Neil Yeo BSc NPQH
Academic year 2013/2014
Dear Parents and Carers
Re: Ingredients required for Food Technology this carousel rotation
Key Stage 3 students study Design and Technology for five periods a fortnight on a carousel system and work with
many different materials and technologies across the different Design and Technology disciplines. Over the course of
this carousel rotation, your son/daughter will be studying Food Technology as part of their Design and Technology
curriculum.
Students are expected to bring in their own ingredients for Food Technology practical lessons. I hope by writing you
this letter, this will allow for advance planning when purchasing the necessary ingredients, maybe taking advantage of
special offers when you see them available in the shops.
There will be five practical lessons this carousel rotation and the ingredients required for each practical are detailed
below. Dates for the practical lessons are also listed, however, although every effort is made to ensure these dates
are met, due to unforeseen circumstances these may have to change. If they do, your son/daughter’s Food
Technology teacher will inform them of the new date using their planner in the usual way.
Practical 1
Fresh Fruit Salad
Practical 2
Very Berry Compote
This practical outcome will be
frozen in school to be used in
your son/daughters own
designed Healthy Fruit
Dessert. Please send them
to school with a suitable
container.
Ingredients required
1 orange you can segment
1 small carton of fruit juice - any flavour
Choose up to three different fruits from:
5 strawberries
1 small apple
1 banana
1 pear
A handful of grapes
10 raspberries
1 kiwi fruit
or other fresh fruits
Date required
300g fresh or frozen fruit
30g sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
Choose one or two from:
Strawberries
Blueberries
Raspberries
Apples
Pears
Pears
Plums
Cherries
Nectarines
Mango
Alternatively you could use a bag of frozen fruit,
mixed summer fruit or forest fruits.
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Telephone: 01293 880350 | Facsimile: 01293 880351
Student Absence Telephone: 01293 880363 (24 hours)
Email: [email protected] | Website: www.oriel.w-sussex.sch.uk
Practical 3
Easy Fairy Cakes
Two fairy cakes will be frozen
in school to be used in your
son/daughters own designed
Healthy Fruit Dessert.
Please send them to school
with a small sandwich bag to
freeze them in.
100g Butter or Margarine - avoid low fat or calorie
reduced spreads
100g Caster Sugar
100g Self raising flour
2 Eggs
12 paper cup cake cases
1 tsp vanilla essence
Practical 4
Own designed
Healthy Fruity Dessert
The ingredients for this practical lesson will be
decided by your son/daughter once they have
completed their final design for their own Healthy
Fruit Dessert. In school we already have their
Very Berry Compote and two Fairy Cakes that
have been frozen to be used in their Healthy
Fruity Dessert.
Practical 5
Oaty Biscuits
80g Butter
80g Demerara sugar – or any sugar you have
80g Self-raising flour
80g Porridge oats
30g Raisins – optional
In addition to this letter, ingredients required for Food Technology practical lessons will be noted as a homework entry
in your son/daughter’s planner and are also available via the school website. A copy of this letter can also be
downloaded from the school’s website at www.oriel.w-sussex.sch.uk/design-technology.
You may be aware that the school receives additional funding for students in receipt of free school meals. As such,
the school can provide ingredients for these students, with no cost to parents. However, we are aware that some
parents may still wish to provide ingredients for their son/daughter, and as we do not wish to purchase ingredients
unnecessarily, we would ask that you complete and return the attached reply slip if you would like the school to
provide all the necessary ingredients for your son/daughter. Please return the slip to your son/daughter’s Design and
Technology teacher as soon as possible. If we do not receive a reply slip, we will assume that you will be providing
ingredients as listed above.
Should you have any further questions regarding Food Technology this carousel rotation, please contact your
son/daughter’s Design and Technology teacher in the first instance. Finally may I remind you to send your
son/daughter to school with a suitable container that they can take their practical work home in.
Yours sincerely
Mr K MacDonald
Subject Leader
Design and Technology
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Student ____________________________
Mentor group ________
Teacher _________________
I am in receipt of free school meals and I would like the school to provide ingredients for my son/daughter.
Parent/Carer _____________________________
Date _____________________
Telephone: 01293 880350 | Facsimile: 01293 880351
Student Absence Telephone: 01293 880363 (24 hours)
Email: [email protected] | Website: www.oriel.w-sussex.sch.uk