GCSE Food and Nutrition
Mae disgrifiad y cymhwyster yn Saesneg yn unig, gan ei fod wedi ei gymryd o fanyleb Saesneg CBAC.
Learners type objective, short and extended answers in an on-screen examination worth 40%, then complete two written assessments: a food science investigation built around a hypothesis, and a researched, planned and evaluated cooking task, both needing analysis, justification and precise sensory description. Numeracy is applied throughout: weighing and measuring, key temperatures, scaling and adapting recipe quantities, calculating energy and nutritional values, timing a plan of work, and presenting results in tables and charts. The single biggest thing Key Stage 3 should build is the fair-test habit: change one variable, measure and record the results in a table or chart, and write a conclusion that uses the evidence.
- Corff dyfarnu
- CBAC
- Lefel
- Level 1 and Level 2
- Addysgu gyntaf
- Medi 2025
- Faint o waith llythrennedd
- Uchel
- Faint o waith rhifedd
- Canolig
- Manyleb
- Agor y fanyleb
Sut mae'r cymhwyster hwn yn cael ei asesu
- Unit 1: Principles of Food and Nutrition: Digital examination 1 hour 30 minutes, 40%, 80 marks
- Unit 2: Food Investigation: Non-examination assessment, 8 hours, 20%, 40 marks, set by WJEC, marked by the centre and moderated by WJEC
- Unit 3: Food and Nutrition in Action: Non-examination assessment, 12 hours, 40%, 80 marks, set by WJEC, marked by the centre and moderated by WJEC
Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Perthnasoedd yn y system rif
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Scaling and adapting recipe quantities
Learners must select and adapt recipes for a single outcome or a number of outcomes, change ingredient quantities to meet an audience's needs, and treat quantities as a variable in experiments.
Rhifedd: Cyfrifiad, Perthnasoedd yn y system rif, Cymhwysedd strategol, Dealltwriaeth gysyniadol
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils halve a recipe for four muffins to make two, and double it to make eight, writing the new quantities in a table.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils scale a soup recipe for four people up to serve a class of 30 using ratio, and round the quantities sensibly for weighing.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils reduce the sugar in a cake recipe by 25% and the fat by 20% using multipliers, then bake and compare the result with the original.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 2, 2.2.2, page 20; Unit 3, 3.3.1 and 3.3.3, page 24
“suggest changes to ingredients and quantities to meet the needs of the audience”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu defnyddio cymhareb a chyfran i gyfrifo meintiau.
Rwy'n gallu haneru rhifau 3-digid yng nghyd-destun rhif, arian a mesuriadau.
Rwy'n gallu ddefnyddio dealltwriaeth o gywerthoedd ffracsiynau, degolion a chanrannau syml, e.e. dod o hyd i 25% o 60cm a gwybod bod hyn yn cyfateb i ¼ o 60cm.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu defnyddio cymarebau a chyfrannau gan gynnwys graddfeydd map.
Rwy'n gallu cyfrifo cynnydd neu ostyngiad canrannol.
Rwy'n gallu defnyddio dulliau effeithlon i luosi a rhannu rhifau cyfan a degolion, gan gynnwys degolion megis 0.6 neu 0.06.
Cam cynnydd 5
Rwy'n gallu defnyddio lluosyddion fel dull effeithlon wrth weithio gyda chanrannau, e.e. lluosi ag 1.2 i gynyddu swm 20%.
Rwy'n gallu adnabod, modelu a chymhwyso'r strwythurau a syniadau mathemategol wrth wraidd problemau, er mwyn eu fformiwleiddio a'u datrys.
Rwy'n gallu dehongli atebion o fewn cyd-destun y broblem ac ystyried a yw atebion, gan gynnwys dangosyddion cyfrifiannell, analog a digidol, yn synhwyrol.
Da gwybod
- Unit 1 is typed on screen, not handwritten: "Digital examination: 1 hour 30 minutes" (Summary of assessment, page 5) and "Assessment type: Digital Examination" (Unit 1, page 11).
- The specification does not mention marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar, and states no calculator rule for the examination: "The Assessment Pack will include all detailed information relating to assessment." (Assessment, page 27).
- AO3, analyse and evaluate, is 20% of the qualification, with 10% in the Unit 1 examination, 5% in Unit 2 and 5% in Unit 3 (Assessment objectives, page 27).
- Nutritional calculation carries different weight by unit: Unit 1 learners "should know how to calculate energy and nutritional values in food" (1.2.3, page 13), but in Unit 3 learners need only be aware of "how to calculate the nutritional value in a food outcome" (3.3.3, page 24).
- Both written assessments are time limited: Unit 2 "will take 8 hours to complete" and Unit 3 "will take 12 hours to complete", and each "could be completed in several sittings" (Arrangements for non-examination assessment, page 28). No word limits are stated.
- Costing and budgeting are not named in the specification. Money appears only through "socio-economic influences" on food choice (1.3.3, page 14; 3.1.1, page 22).
- Charts and star diagrams are listed with "such as", which the specification says "indicates that the specified content is for guidance only" (How to read the amplification, page 11).
Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill
Food investigations use the same fair-test, variables and results-table skills as The Sciences, and recipe scaling and percentage of reference intake overlap with Mathematics and Numeracy.
Ffynhonnell: WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition specification, Version 2, February 2025, teaching from 2025, for award from 2027 (© WJEC CBAC Ltd. 2024).