Cookery classes to be compulsory

[Chezzie]

Cookery lessons are to be compulsory in England's secondary schools for children aged 11 to 14.

Pupils will learn to cook for an hour a week for one term. Poorer pupils' ingredients will be subsidised.

Cookery is a ministerial "expectation" but, as an optional part of the design and technology curriculum, is not currently taught in all schools.

The move is part of the strategy to tackle obesity, as experts believe 1m children will be obese in a decade.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families says that about 85% of secondary schools do offer cookery in some form.

More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7200949.stm

Im in Wales and I hope they follow suit as I would like my girls to have compulsory cooking. We have started cooking at home, basics like cakes and cookies etc...I loved cookery in school as its not ALL about cooking and you learn basic health and hygiene and food types ect.