Introduction

Our purpose built Food/Fabric rooms are well equipped with a good range of modern equipment.

Teaching Staff

Mrs. Liz Perepelytz

Mrs. Liz Steele

Learning Assistant

Mrs. Karen McColl                                                                

Aims

• To provide pupils with opportunities for personal fulfillment using creative, sensory and manipulative skill.
• To provide them with a sound basis of knowledge and skills which will equip them to deal with the practical issues of life.
• To develop skills relating to the critical and informed choice of resources to develop a Healthy Lifestyle within a sustainable environment.
• To equip pupils with organisational and management skills.
• To help pupils to acquire knowledge and understanding of the physical needs of individuals in the home and the wider community.
• To promote values such as co-operation to others in school and the wider community.

Courses offered seek to promote the subject as relevant to all pupils and take account of young people’s developing maturity and independence and are equally relevant to both boys and girls.  Today’s society needs people who have developed essential ‘life skills’ and who can cooperate in shared endeavours, who are imaginative and creative and who understand the physical and emotional needs of their fellow beings.  Home Economics makes a valuable contribution to the development of these skills and attributes and also makes a significant contribution to pupils’ personal and social development, particularly in the area of Health Education.