[Cherie]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

This surprises me Ammi. Are you sure that Domestic Science is taught in ALL schools?

It's called Food Tech now, it is an option for GCSE though not compulsory, and is not on the curriculum in all secondary schools, food hygiene can be taught at home if I had the choice of my child learning a foreign language or Food Tech I know which one I would want them to choose

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by Cherie

It's called Food Tech now, it is an option for GCSE though not compulsory, and is not on the curriculum in all secondary schools, food hygiene can be taught at home if I had the choice of my child learning a foreign language or Food Tech I know which one I would want them to choose

Yeh it was called food tech when I was at school. once we hit year 10 though we could drop it if we wanted.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Yeh it was called food tech when I was at school. once we hit year 10 though we could drop it if we wanted.

Did boys have to attend this class too Kyle? If so did you 'drop out'? And did most of the girls?

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Did boys have to attend this class too Kyle? If so did you 'drop out'? And did most of the girls?

Yeh, both genders had to do it at my school. I'm not sure what the gender ratio was after our options as I didn't pick it but I personally never knew any lads who picked it. We mostly did P.E and woodwork.

I think it was useful though while we had it. Making stuff to bring home to your mum and dad to try was actually really nice.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Yeh, both genders had to do it at my school. I'm not sure what the gender ratio was after our options as I didn't pick it but I personally never knew any lads who picked it. We mostly did P.E and woodwork.

I think it was useful though while we had it. Making stuff to bring home to your mum and dad to try was actually really nice.

Thanks for this Kyle. Very interesting. (and I love the insight into 'Little Kyle' taking the biscuits and buns he'd baked home to mum and dad and feeling good about it - I remember doing and feeling exactly the same. Innocence and simplicity - it's a shame life eventually fecks us all up.)

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Yeh, both genders had to do it at my school. I'm not sure what the gender ratio was after our options as I didn't pick it but I personally never knew any lads who picked it. We mostly did P.E and woodwork.

I think it was useful though while we had it. Making stuff to bring home to your mum and dad to try was actually really nice.

Our school was extremely sexist and girls never had the option of woodwork, and lads didn't get the option of food tech

[RichardG]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Yeh, both genders had to do it at my school. I'm not sure what the gender ratio was after our options as I didn't pick it but I personally never knew any lads who picked it. We mostly did P.E and woodwork.

I think it was useful though while we had it. Making stuff to bring home to your mum and dad to try was actually really nice.

Our teacher used to eat our food. We would take it out of the oven and stick it in the fridge, then at the end of the day when we had to pick it up to take it home it was half eaten almost every time.

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Our school was extremely sexist and girls never had the option of woodwork, and lads didn't get the option of food tech

Sounds really unfair that. Would you have wanted to do woodwork if you had the chance? What about health and social care? Was that restricted to just the girls?

Originally Posted by RichardG

Our teacher used to eat our food. We would take it out of the oven and stick it in the fridge, then at the end of the day when we had to pick it up to take it home it was half eaten almost every time.

Haha seriously?

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Sounds really unfair that. Would you have wanted to do woodwork if you had the chance? What about health and social care? Was that restricted to just the girls?

Nah I was never into woodwork but a few of my mates were and proper kicked off when they were told they couldnt do it for GCSE and they had to drop it for yr10

We never did health and social care

[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...