Hazards in the Kitchen

• kitchen interactive scene
• worksheet for pupils with additional support needs

Display the kitchen interactive on the whiteboard.

• pupils identify food safety hazards on the kitchen interactive
• allow some time to discuss as a whole class the consequences of these hazards
• split pupils up into small groups
• each group is allocated one of the food safety hazards and must come up with a short drama that shows:
  • what happened to cause the hazard
  • what the hazard is
  • what the consequences of the hazard might be
  • what could have been differently to ensure safety.
• pupils come together after allocated time to watch each group’s drama.
• if possible, each group could put their dramas together as a sequence and present it to another class or at an assembly.

Expressive Arts – Drama

The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) offers secondary schools in Scotland the opportunity to become registered with the Institute to deliver some of the REHIS qualifications – see www.rehis.com/community-training   for information on the REHIS Schools Food Hygiene Initiative contact REHIS.

DO – Does the group’s performance demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of kitchen hazards and how to prevent them?

Consider CfE Benchmarks, for example:

• Identifies ways to reduce the risks of food poisoning, for example reheating food until piping hot, safe food storage, different coloured chopping boards.

Adaptations for pupils with additional support needs

• some children with ASN may find an open-ended drama task very difficult
• another way of achieving the learning intentions for this lesson while encouraging pupils to be creative in their thinking could be with the use of comic strips
• using the accompanying sheet (photocopied onto A3), pupils draw comic strip-style pictures before and after each hazard showing what might have caused it and what the consequence of it might be
• pupils could then make an alternative comic strip starting with their picture of what happened first and adding on to it what should have been done

Challenge

• groups could create a script for their performance
• explore the use of other drama conventions such as the use of mime, voice over or freeze frame