Scottish café

The pupils will learn more about local foods. They will find out about traditional Scottish dishes and their ingredients, will find out about the types of local produce available and the advantages to using locally produced food. They will then run a Scottish-themed cafe, serving traditional Scottish fayre.

Broad Outcomes of learning

• Subject knowledge about Scottish food, preparation and serving gained and enhanced
• Enterprising skills – application of knowledge in a real situation by the running of the cafe and through demonstrating the type of produce to be sourced
• Develop employability skills through communication, planning, organisation, time management, researching, sourcing, co-operating, contributing
• Learners take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about the dishes to be produced
• Learners have developed enterprising skills identified as 4 capacities of CfE

Relevance to curriculum

• Supports CfE Health and Wellbeing
• Supports numeracy
• Supports Home Economics course
• Can be used as a cross curricular project
• Relevant to Health Promoting Schools
• Enhances employability skills and citizenship learning
• Places learning into a local context