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Curriculum

Hospitality and Catering

Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact

About the subject

Hospitality and Catering introduces students to the food and hospitality industries through practical work, industry knowledge and vocational assessment. Students develop technical competence, organisation and professional standards.

About the Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact

Intent

Understand the structure and operation of the hospitality and catering industry.
Apply food safety, hygiene and safe working practices.
Plan, prepare, cook and present dishes to an appropriate standard.
Develop knowledge of nutrition, customer needs and menu planning.
Prepare students for the current vocational qualification.

Implementation

Learning is planned from students’ assessed starting points and reviewed as they make progress.
Lessons follow Kickstart’s lesson pathway: Learning Intention, Remember, Learn, Practise and Review.
Teachers use adaptive teaching, modelling, scaffolding, retrieval and regular checking for understanding.
Literacy, vocabulary and communication are taught explicitly within the subject.
Assessment information is used to address gaps, adjust teaching and make qualification-entry decisions.
Students complete practical tasks, written assignments and controlled or internally assessed work in line with awarding-body requirements.

Impact

Students build knowledge and skills from their individual starting points.
Work, assessment evidence and student voice demonstrate increasing confidence and independence.
Students are prepared appropriately for accredited assessment and their next stage of education, employment or training.
Progress is considered alongside engagement, attendance, resilience and readiness to learn.

Enrichment

Opportunities may include employer encounters, catering events, workplace visits, practical briefs, enterprise and contact with colleges or training providers.

Careers

Careers learning in this subject contributes to Kickstart’s wider careers programme and the Gatsby Benchmarks. Through our work with Future Focus, students receive individual support to explore suitable pathways, make applications and prepare for a positive post-16 transition. The subject supports progression into catering, professional cookery, hotels, events, food production, front-of-house work, customer service and apprenticeships.