This is the first lesson in the series, ‘Food and the Future’. It looks at some of the diets that people used to eat in the past, comparing these to the ‘Eatwell Plate’ and students’ own diets. It describes and compares Stone Age, Roman, Elizabethan and Post WW2 Ration diets and includes both a sorting exercise and a task in which students have to justify how they would rank their own diet alongside these examples.

This presentation was designed to be used with Year 12 students who were beginning to think about Post-18 choices and the possibility of studying at university. It gets students to think about their aspirations and to create ambitious, realistic and ‘insurance’ pathways to motivate them in their studies at Key Stage 5.

This resource was created for a one-hour revision session I had with the entire year group that was sitting Preparation for Working Life that same afternoon. This syllabus still runs until June 2019 so there are a couple more opportunities to sit the examination. There are examples of questions from all the different sections of the paper here and the answers are provided for the shorter questions.