[Ammi]

..yeah as Cherie said, Kirk..it's called food technology now and it's not compulsory for GCSE, which many subjects obviously aren't because it would be impossible for every one of them to be...and although it may not be in the curriculum of every secondary school, there are many subjects expanded on and other extra subjects which aren't available at primary level, like drama for instance and that can assist children with low confidence very much indeed...also in the schools that I know and in my area..?...food technology also expands into other subject..like for instance, in Geography the foods of countries studied will be prepared by the children and all food preparation hygiene applied...also in Maths because of the weighing of ingredients part obviously and science in experimenting reactions in certain ingredient combinations ...so there is in many schools quite a bit of focus on it generally...as there is in all parts of hygiene...

..anyway as Cherie also said with languages...different children will be drawn to different subjects to consider at GCSE level and it's great that they have the choices that they do...