Year 4 – Design and Technology – Making a healthy soup

Year 4 children have enjoyed learning about healthy foods, a balanced and varied diet and seasonality. They sampled different types of soups (packet, tinned, fresh, condensed) and found about their main ingredients and how healthy they were. Next, they learned about foods that are reared, grown and caught and seasonality. They used this knowledge to design their own healthy soup, using the Eatwell Guide to support them in their choices. As a class, the children designed a soup and then learned and practised cutting skills in preparing the ingredients and cooking it. The final part of the process was the tasting and the evaluation. The children suggested ways to ‘finish’ the soup and considered whether it met the design brief.

What The Student Says

I used the bridge grip when I cut the leeks. They had a strong smell and made my eyes water! 4SM child

I think some onions on top of the soup would make it look better and make it taste better! 4SM child

Our soup was healthy because it wasn't processed, all the things in it were fresh. 4SM child

What knowledge and skills have been developed?

Knowledge:
• understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
• prepare and cook a savoury dish using a range of cooking techniques
• understand seasonality and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed.

Skills:
• Prepare ingredients in different ways – knife, peeler.
• Carry out research.
• Design for an intended user.
• Use simple finishing techniques suitable for the product they are creating.
• Evaluate their product by discussing how well it works in relation to the purpose and the user and whether it
meets design criteria.

What the Teacher says

The children used some excellent language when sampling the different soups and were very knowledgeable about the rules of hygiene and safety. Their own soup designs followed the design brief and were tailored to their intended user. Many were very creative and included some lovely finishing ideas such as croutons and swirls of cream and sprinkles of pepper! The children loved cutting the vegetables and adding the ingredients to the pan. It was a delight to hear the evaluations of the soup, which had mixed reviews!

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