Our lower school recipes were perfect for a sunny day today. Lemon cheesecake, orange polenta cakes and fruit smoothies. Well done everyone! #speed and accuracy #HPL@HPLEDU

Meatballs with a ‘hidden vegetable’ herby tomato sauce was made this morning as Year 9 worked with speed and accuracy to demonstrate impressive knife skills. #automaticity #HPL@HPLEDU

Year 11 use logical thinking when planning their investigations to develop relevant hypotheses. #HPL@HPLEDU

Year 7 discover there is a lot more to fruit salad than meets the eye. Knife skills, cost, portion size, nutritional value and even environmental impact where all discussed this afternoon. But which did they prefer, home-made or shop bought? #HPL@HPLedu

Year 8 collect and collate data this morning to compare the success of different cake making methods. #HPL@HPLedu

As we are all considering the effects our shopping and eating habits may have on the environment, Year 9 have been investigating plant based protein sources as alternatives to meat. #HPL@HPLedu

Year 7 had to be creative and enterprising today to work out how to prepare such enormous apples! Delicious crumbles using seasonal fruit. Well done everyone! #HPL@HPLEDU

Year 9 putting theory into practice this week by remembering food safety rules when preparing raw meat. #HPL@HPLedu

We are already thinking about Christmas in HE this week. Year 8 have been making and freezing shortcrust pastry and planning how they will put a creative spin on standard mince pies. #HPL@HPLEDU

Wonderful results tonight at our Beacon challenge. Cooking up a storm with ingredients that may otherwise have been thrown away to highlight the growing issue of food waste in the UK. #HPL@HPLEDU

Great to see such creativity and risk taking from our year 9’s today, producing a beautiful range of decorated Christmas cakes in an hour! #HPL #Hpledu

Using different types of pastry to make Christmas nibbles at our Duke of Edinburgh cookery club last night. Well done everyone!

Year 8 perfecting their kneading technique and learning about the functions of the ingredients used to make bread. We have yet to decide if the ‘French fold’ or the ‘two hand stretch’ will produce the best results! #HPL@HPLedu

Just a small selection of the wonderful dishes produced this week by Year 11 as they prepare for their practical assessments. Well done everyone! #speed and accuracy #HPL@HPLEDU

Year 9 have been considering why a vegan diet may be the key to future food sustainability. We have been tasting a range of products and making our own plant based dishes. Not surprisingly, our vegan chocolate brownies proved to be most popular! #HPL@HPLEDU

Year 7 demonstrated impressive knife skills this afternoon to create delicious layered pasta salads. #speed and accuracy #HPL@HPLEDU

Year 11 are demonstrating commendable perseverance as they complete the final stages of NEA2. Some fantastic dishes were prepared during the three-hour practical assessment. Well done, everyone!#HPL@HPLEDU

Getting ideas from existing products is always a useful and enjoyable way to start a design task. Year 8 disassemble cereal bars as they plan their own recipes. #agile #HPL@HPLEDU

Super bean burgers made by Year 7 this week. The girls came up with some great ideas for modifying the basic ingredients and presenting the results in an imaginative way #creating #HPL@HPLEDU

Christmas cooking in the Food and Nutrition department this week. Well done, everyone!