In Design Technology, Year 6 have been developing their cookery skills.
We started off by recalling all of the cooking that the class had done at school in previous years and also about what we like to cook at home with and for their families.

Next, we learned all about today’s ‘hero ingredient’ which is salmon and how it is sourced. We created storyboards to describe how salmon progresses from  ‘Farm to Fork’.

We learned about the importance of health and safety in cooking, including how to avoid cross contamination and what a balanced diet involves.  

With our learning partners, we then created  our recipe using these ingredients: salmon fillets, new potatoes, red peppers, onions, lemons, olive oil, salt, pepper and rocket. We had to decide how we wanted to prepare our potatoes, and whether we were roasting the lemons, peppers and onions, steaming them in with the salmon or serving them as a raw salad.

We had lots of opportunities to practice the learning power of ‘Reciprocity’ and all of the pairs were able to work together harmoniously, helping each other as well as compromising when necessary. 

We had a great time preparing all of the food ourselves, taking care to follow the recipe sensibly and safely. We also loved eating what we had prepared and didn’t have much appetite left for our lunch afterwards!

We were all really pleased with how our meals turned out and hopefully will be able to use our cooking skills at home in the future. 

39 comments on “Design Technology: Come Dine with Me!

  1. Florence Y3🌈 says:

    I can’t wait to do this when I’m in Year 6, it looks so fun!

  2. Ooh! Looks delicious year 6 can I have some please?

  3. The food looks yummy 🙂

  4. ‘O’ Nice

  5. What great D.T. work Year 6! Your salmon dishes looked very tasty when I popped in to see you, and a big well done for working reciprocally 🙂

  6. Catherine Yr6 says:

    I loved this cooking DT !!! The food we made was delicious and I am definitely going to cook this dish at home. Thank you to all the teachers who made this possible.

  7. It was so Fun. I liked doing the cooking with my partner for a change!

  8. Alexandra Y3 says:

    This looks so fun and yummy 😋! Great cooking y6!

  9. It was super fun and I learned how to make a very nice presentation. I also learned how fun it is to cook and I will try cook for my family one day.

  10. I really enjoyed cooking and learned how make salmon and where they come from.
    I cooked it on Saturday.

  11. 😍hollirose says:

    i had lots of fun i learnt cross contamination. icooked it for my family💕🤣love the photos

  12. MILA YEAR 6 says:

    It was so fun to cook . BUT I LIKE MY HOME MADE VERSION BETTER. I was actually shock it tasted good. I loved the potato chips the most.

  13. I loved this lesson and I learned about cross contamination. I cooked this at home and it was delicious.

  14. The food was so yummy. I loved cooking it and the salmon was really tasty as we cooked it with lemon and onions.

  15. The best part of the DT was eating the salmon wich was really good.

  16. I really loved cooking a salmon. It was delicious. In the weekend I cooked salmons for my family which they loved. I hope we do this more often in the future.

  17. When we were cooking it was so fun. I learned that you can’t add to much ingredients on the salmon.

  18. I really enjoyed cooking the salmon because it ended up being very delicious. I hope we make other meals like this in the future.

  19. I had a lot of fun, and I and going to make it this week for my family =)

  20. I really enjoyed doing the chopping and seasoning everything! It was a deliciouse meal and I am thinking of cooking it for my family.

  21. I was so fun and TASTY! I especially loved the salmon.

  22. I had so much fun making the salmon and I learnt to not add to much salt.

  23. I loved to make the salmon my favourite part was cutting the potatoes i loved eating it and it was really nice I learned a lot of new things.

  24. This was so much fun , we all loved cooking the salmon.

  25. I learned so much about cooking and I had just as much fun.

  26. I had lots of fun cooking. The most challenging bit was cutting the onion without crying.

  27. I loved making the meal and moving all the foods to a certain side. Also, cutting the onions really make you cry! Overall, the salmon tasted really good😜

  28. I had a lot of fun cooking the salmon. It actually turned out to taste amazing , even though I thought it would taste awful!!

  29. It was a lot of fun and I really loved this project. The worse part about it was that we had to chop onions and I was sort of crying because of it. But other than that this was really fun and yummy!😍

  30. I loved the dish I made and it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fun!

  31. I loved this DT lesson I had so much fun! But the only bad thing is that I couldn’t stop crying because of the onions!

  32. The food was so good

  33. It was so fun making a dish and it was delicious. I loved cutting the potatoes and they tasted good. I learnt a lot from this lesson.

  34. I love to cook so it was an awesome opportunity to be able to cook in school especially because the food was delicious.

  35. It was very fun and the food was delicious.

  36. It was really fun chopping the vegetables even if the onions make your eyes water. I DID NOT KNOW IT WOULD TASTE SO GOOD! If I could do it again I would season the salmon more.

  37. It was a lot of fun and I really loved this project. The worse part about it was that we had to chop onions and I was sort of crying because of it. But other than that this was really fun and yummy!!

  38. Wow year 6!What a fun way to learn how to cook!!I wish I could try some!

  39. SO yummy, I Want some!

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