Cookery in Schools
Well surprise, surprise after removing all the school home economics departments (cookery classrooms) and decimating the trained staff who pleaded with Government and Opposition to save cookery from extinction in the curriculum we have an announcement cooking is back. It is criminal that politicians can continue to ruin our schools in this way, ignoring the professionals and parents who fought hard with teachers to retain cookery lessons. I feel bad that yet again I need to complain about government past and present but having been in education for many years now unlike many parents I can remember how things were and how badly we have been served. Many older people will still be cooking the dishes they learnt at school and still remembering the food values we were taught. To come up with this idea they have spent thousands and thousands of pounds with the School Food Trust many people headed by Prue Leith on an exorbitant salary to tell us the sensible people what we know, our children spend a significant part of their life in school all the quality time Monday to Friday we the parents want them to have an all round education to fit them for adult life and of course it includes learning to cook.
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You are so right I still make butterscotch flan which I learnt at school even though I am not the worlds greatest cook. I try to involve my children in cooking but cannot get them to focus in the way the would at school, hopefully this will work but for how long before another change.
Exactly how long before another change. Makes you wonder why a bit more thought is not being put in up front before implementations
The cookery lessons in my sons secondary school are very different from my days. It is Health and Safety one step to far I feel as even with teacher guidance they are not even allowed put the cold food into the oven
Home Economists across the country salute you! The Institute of Home Economics campaigned strongly to retain Home Economics on the national curriculum. But unwisely the government felt it better to remove the subject from the National Curriculum in 1987. Teachers had to retrain or perhaps move to teaching, the ill-thought out food technology; how to make a pizza for sale commmercially and design the box to put it in.
And we wonder our young people do not understand the basics of food and nutrition.
Who is going to oversee the reintroduction into the classroom and ensure that it is universally taught?
Sue, London
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