HOME ECONOMICS

HIGHLIGHTS

• Purpose-built Food and Fabric Technology rooms are well equipped with a wide range of modern equipment.
• To ensure a continuous, coherent Home Economics experience, strong links are established with Prep and Junior Schools.
• Twice each session pupils take part in a charity fund raising exercise to ensure an understanding of large-scale food preparation and quality assurance requirements.
• Form VI pupils prepare a picnic, held in the beautiful school grounds, for themselves and Prep I pupils to celebrate the end of the SQA examinations.
• Pupils are encouraged to use their imagination and creativity to produce items which challenge their skills and enhance their enjoyment of the subject.

Japanese Foreign Exchange
Teddy Bears' Picnic
Ready Steady Cook
Prep 1 Make Pizzas
Prep 2 Make Pancakes
Children in Need

Form I
Personal Presentation
Quilted Cushions
Sewing on Buttons

Junior 1
The Tree of Life
RibbonWeaving/Mini Cushions

Prep 4
Easter Projects

Prep 3
Easter Projects
Captain's Catch of the Day

Fabric Lunch Club

COURSE INFORMATION

Age 5-14

In a relaxed, enjoyable but disciplined environment, Home Economics makes a major contribution to the Technology and Health aspects of Environmental Studies within the 5-14 framework.
Traditionally, Home Economics has been responsible for the development of practical, sensory, creative and manipulative skills. While these skills continue to be important, the following, less obvious transferable skills are also developed:
Problem solving
Ergonomics
Investigating
Interpreting
Evaluating Information
Presenting Solutions

The course includes:
· Applied healthy eating
· Food hygiene and kitchen safety
· Basic food preparation techniques
· Technological innovations
· Introduction to textiles
· Basic fabric skills and the use of sewing machines
· 'Design and make' projects in both food and fabric

Form 1 Food Technology
Junior 2 Food Technology

Form VI Student Survival Course

This course was specially designed for Dollar Academy pupils to ensure that they have the necessary knowledge and skills to take care of themselves on leaving school. Pupils will develop responsible attitudes to, and apply basic practical knowledge of food-hygiene, kitchen safety, and healthy-eating while developing the skills required to prepare a variety of dishes. The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) Elementary Food Hygiene Certificate will be offered as an optional part of the course.

Form VI Survival Cookery