Topics covered in Senior Phase:

• Childcare looks at the development of children and the needs of the childcare industry.
• Practical Cookery Skills looks at the skills required for professional cookery linking it to health and sustainability.
• Craft Baking looks at the skills required to go into the professional baking sector cover a wide range of bakery skills.
• Practical Cake Craft looks at the professional cake craft industry from the baking and design process and asks pupils for high skills linked to cake design work.

Skills for Work in Hospitality, which looks at the Hospitality industry as a whole including events management.

Pathways in Home Economics at Dalkeith HS:

Completion of the S3 BGE practical skills courses would be desirable to give you a strong understanding of our senior courses.

Most of our courses can be accessed at any level.

Practical Cake Craft does ask for more skills from you, for example, a good art or design background would help support you.

Practical Cookery

• HNC/HND Professional Cookery at College
• Apprenticeship as a Chef in in Hospitality
• A career in the Hospitality Industry

NPA 4 Bakery

• NPA 4 Bakery (In school)
• NPA 5 bakery (In College)
• NC Bakery (In College)
• A Career as a professional baker and apprenticeship

Practical Cookery

• College or University to do various Hospitality Qualifications
• Apprenticeships in Cake Craft or Hospitality
• University to study food at degree level

Early Learning Childcare

• Higher Childcare and Development at college
• Apprenticeships in childcare
• University and college level Nursey teaching, primary teaching

Skills for Work Hospitality

• HNC/HND college level Skills for Work Hospitality
• Careers in Hospitality e.g. front of house, kitchen, cafes, and management.
• The course covers all areas of the Hospitality Industry
• University to study in areas of the Hospitality Industry