The catering and hospitality course offered at GBHS is a taster course for boys who are interested in or want to know more about what is involved in a career in hospitality. The course is timetabled as a double block four times a week for the school year and involves theory and practical lessons.
Most of the units offered are at level two and are done through the Hospitality Standards Institute, which is the industry training organisation. In a typical year the students would cover units in food safety, knives, salads, grilling, food preservation, boiling, roasting, fruit and vegetables, table setting and basic table service. The course offers about 35 level two credits.
Class sizes are kept to around sixteen students with a high percentage of the boys choosing to go on to apprenticeships and tertiary qualifications at institutions like the Pacific Hotel Management School in Taranaki. The school maintains close links to local hospitality businesses.
Through this course the students will develop life skills as well as some basic commercial kitchen and front of house skills, possible career paths from this course are chef, waiter, barman, concierge, hotel manager, baker, butcher and many other food, hospitality or tourism related industries.