Examination Board: WJEC Level 1/2 Vocational Award in Hospitality and Catering (Technical Award)
WJEC Qualification Code 5409
The course focuses on all aspects of the hospitality and catering industry, which includes hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, pubs and bars, leisure parks, stadia, nightclubs, contract caterers, food service operators, entertainment and visitor attractions. The employment offered by these outlets includes waiting staff, receptionists, catering assistants, chefs, hotel managers, bar managers and food technologists.
Students gain knowledge and understanding of hospitality provision, catering provision, catering providers; how hospitality and catering providers operate; the working conditions of the industry; health and safety; food safety; contributing factors that ensure success of a business, including overheads, VAT, seasonality and sustainability.
The course delivers a broad balanced curriculum, in engaging lessons, which promotes an interest in hospitality and catering. All students develop many transferable skills: problem solving, organisation management, time management, planning and communication.
Students can be awarded one of 8 grades:
Level 2 Distinction*, Level 2 Distinction; Level 2 Merit; Level 2 Pass;
Level 1 Distinction*; Level 1 Distinction; Level 1 Merit; Level 1 Pass
In our curriculum we aim to:
- Explore the food industry and the top-down workings of catering establishments
- Give students confidence to work with different foods and ingredients and to understand the differing results of their choices.
- Allow students to discover ways to develop their creativity in order to satisfy the needs of the consumer
- Encourage a life-long interest in the subject of food and a greater appreciation of food based decisions that have helped shape the world around us.
- Foster a deeper understanding of sustainability and the responsibility of everyone to enhance the longevity of the planet, and combat the damage of the past.
D&T Hospitality & Catering is a popular subject at KS4 because it allows students to work in a different environment and in a more professional way than some of the GCSE subjects. Students develop the knowledge and skills that can be applied to individual and team work.
Some analytical skills are cross curricular, meaning they can support the learning in other subjects. The department understands the need to embrace traditional hand skills alongside more modern technology.
The next steps for students who succeed in Hospitality & Catering includes studying in further education, enrol on an apprenticeship or take up work within the broad spectrum of food related opportunities, both in this country and abroad.
