S3 Home Economics Report Comments (Scotland)

Home economics covers practical food skills and a growing range of dishes, food safety and hygiene, nutrition and healthy eating, food choices, labelling and sustainability, designing and making food or textile items to a brief where taught, and planning, managing time and evaluating dishes.

Below are 13 sample sentences for S3: two strengths and one next step for each of the 4 comment levels (Secure / Consolidating / Developing / Beginning), plus a tip for families. They are a small selection from the 288 home economics sentences in the full pack. Copy one, then add a detail only you know about the student.

Jump to: Secure · Consolidating · Developing · Beginning · Writing tips

Student name Pronouns

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Secure S

Strengths

[Name] analyses the influences on consumer choice, including advertising, the environment, social justice and food security, and presents a balanced, well-argued view.
After each practical, [Name] identifies the main nutrients the dish contains and explains how it could fit into a balanced diet.

Next steps:

[Name]'s next challenge is to develop a product for a stated need, such as a high-fibre snack, through several trials, recording each change and its result.

Consolidating C

Strengths

Advertising, price and concern for the environment are among the influences on shoppers that [Name] can describe and discuss sensibly.
After cooking, [Name] can identify the main nutrients in the dish and often links them correctly to their functions in the body.

Next steps:

Practising dovetailing (fitting tasks together so no time is wasted) in time plans would help [Name] manage longer practicals.

Developing D

Strengths

[Name] can describe how advertising and price influence what people buy and, with some guidance, is starting to weigh up wider issues such as the environment.
With a nutrition chart to refer to, [Name] can identify some of the main nutrients in a dish made in class.

Next steps:

Adapting a familiar recipe for one dietary need, such as a vegetarian diet, with a worked example, will help [Name] prepare for more detailed briefs.

Beginning B

Strengths

Sentence starters help [Name] begin to describe how advertising can influence the foods people choose to buy.
Each dish made in class contains different nutrients, and [Name] is starting to name one with help from a chart.

Next steps:

[Name] could look at two food adverts with the teacher and say, with a sentence starter, what each one wants people to do.

Support at home

Planning a meal around leftovers or ingredients that need using up, and asking your child for ideas, puts learning about food waste into practice.

How to write home economics comments for S3

In S3, describe how the pupil plans and adapts dishes, for example to a brief, a budget or a dietary need, and manages time across a longer practical. Target the planning or the making, whichever is less secure.
Comment on evaluation: does the pupil use sensory testing and the brief to judge a dish and suggest improvements? A next step such as giving a reason for each improvement is clear.
Note understanding of food choices, such as reading labels, food miles or reducing food waste, and whether the pupil applies it to their own recipes. This pairs well with a home tip about cooking together.

Watch out: Avoid comments about a pupil's own diet, weight or eating habits, and avoid judging only how the finished dish looks. Describe the skills and knowledge shown, such as safe knife work or explaining what a nutrient does.

The four levels describe how secure, accurate and independent the learning is in what has been taught, never a CfE level. Secure suits detailed, accurate work applied to unfamiliar tasks; Consolidating suits a sound grasp with occasional guidance; Developing suits sometimes, or with a model or worked example; Beginning names what is starting to show and the support that helps. Show the level through the work rather than writing the level word.

What Home Economics covers

In these comments, home economics covers these behaviours:

prepares and cooks dishes using a growing range of practical skills
works safely and hygienically with food and equipment
understands nutrition, healthy eating and dietary needs
considers food choices, labelling, sustainability and where food comes from
plans, manages time and evaluates dishes, including textile and design tasks where taught

More Scottish secondary subjects comments

How these sentences were made, and what has been checked: About these comments.