Year 12 – Food Design

[Industry and Entrepreneurial Solutions]

Length: Full Year (20 SACE credits)
Contact: Technologies Leader

Precluded Combination – Students cannot enrol in both Food Design and Metal Technology at Stage 2.

Recommended Background
No prerequisites.

Satisfactory completion of Stage 1 Food Design is recommended. Those with no experience will be supported through the basics.

Course Description
Stage 2 Food Design students will be designing a café or restaurant that is entrepreneurial in thinking and meets industry standards. Students will design the type of café or restaurant they focus on as it will be the foundation for their folio of work over the length of the course.

Students will develop and demonstrate skills in designing and producing menu items for their café or restaurant based around their design brief. The course allows students to have a choice in the food they produce and by the end of the course they will have designed and served a range of starters, main courses and desserts. Students will demonstrate their culinary skills through various skills tasks and document their learning and design thinking in their folio of work.

Assessment
Student achievement is assessed against the relevant Performance Standards outlined for the Design, Technology & Engineering SACE subject, with A+ to E- Grades used for reporting purposes.

School-based Assessment:

  • Two Specialised Skills Tasks (20%): Students show evidence of and evaluate a series of practical skill development tasks. (Consists of 1200 words written or equivalent in multimodal form)
  • Design Process (Folio) and Solution (50%): This may be a major design product or a series of up to 3 smaller design tasks. Students must show evidence of the design process in which they showcase and evaluate their product. (Consists of 3000 words written or equivalent in multimodal form).

External Assessment:
Resource Study (30%): Comprises of the following 2 parts:

  • Part One: Resource Investigation
  • Part Two: Issue Study.

The Resource Study consists of 2000 words written or equivalent presented in multimodal form.