Use FileMaker Pro software to analyse and create food labels

Terry Rowland teaches health and food technology at Linlithgow Academy. In today’s session, some of her S2 students cook a dish they have created themselves, carry out a nutritional analysis and produce a food label for it. This is part of a national project called Taste of Success, which gives pupils the brief to create a main course dish that is low in salt and uses seasonal Scottish vegetables.

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Teacher profile

Terry Rowland has been teaching for 29 years in three different schools. She has been at Linlithgow Academy for the past 17 years and teaches home economics to S1-S6 pupils. 

Terry gained four modules in computing from the Scottish Vocational Education Council (now SQA) and attended several local authority in-service ICT training courses in the early days. Like many teachers, Terry has also spent a lot of time developing her ICT skills on her own. 

Terry uses ICT fairly regularly in her teaching. She uses computer-aided design (CAD) embroidery in fashion and textiles, database software and digital imagery for health and food technology and digital video to create training programmes and as a teaching tool. 

Linlithgow Academy is situated in Linlithgow in West Lothian and is a modern three-storey building. There are 1200 pupils in the school, 43 of whom have free school lunches; 30 are recorded as having special educational needs. There are five pupils with English as a second language. 

The school has 400 computers connected in a local network, and one dedicated ICT room. There is an ICT coordinator, but this is not a full-time post. The school’s culture encourages the use of ICT equipment throughout the curriculum to support effective learning and teaching. 

Some ICT training is available for staff from West Lothian Council Education Services.