Professional Cookery Diploma - Level 2

You’ll build on what you learned at Level 1, extending your cooking skills into more complex foods such as desserts, sauces and meat dishes. You’ll boost your employability by learning how to deal with different workplace scenarios, making you more prepared for work in the challenging kitchen environment.

With an emphasis on practical based assignments in our Le Cordon Vert training restaurant or Eat Central Social Space and tutor guidance the course will enable you to further advance your skills.

You will start to expand you skills into the preparation and creation of desserts and basked goods as well as learning more complex recipes. You will learn how to assess and deal with a variety of workplace scenarios designed to prepare you for every eventuality that you may come across in the working environment.

You will learn how to prepare and cook.

• Stocks, Soups and Sauces
• Fruit and Vegetables
• Meat and Poultry
• Pasta and Rice
• Fish and Shellfish
• Hot and Cold Deserts
• Biscuits, Cakes and Sponges.

All our tutors have worked in the professional catering industry prior to going into teaching. It is the knowledge and skills that they have gained during this time that they are eager to share with their students.

All students are required to wear chef whites when working in the kitchens.

Every learner at Central Sussex College who is under 19 will undertake a personal Study Programme designed to develop them academically, practically and personally. Study Programmes contain 3 essential elements:

• Subject Course – Vocational or chosen Academic subject, usually studied for 12 – 16 hours a week.
• English and Maths – Every learner will work towards Level 2 English and Maths (C grade equivalent). Learners who have achieved a Grade C will extend their English and Maths.
• 3E – Our own brand of specific entrepreneurship, enterprise and employability training.

You will have specific time in your timetable for each of the three elements above and you will be expected to attend all elements throughout the year. Study programmes are designed to help you meet your maximum potential and progress to the next level of study of into work.

Central Sussex College is committed to providing you with guidance and support to help you make the most of your potential and achieve your goals! We offer an exciting range of academic qualifications, vocational subjects and apprenticeships – based at excellent facilities in Crawley, Haywards Heath, East Grinstead and Horsham. We have something for everyone – so whether you are just leaving school and looking to study for a BTEC or A Levels, are looking to retrain and gain new skills or take your studies further with professional qualification or higher level training at our University Centre, Central Sussex College can cater for you.