Thankyou to Joe for his passionate piece on food education for my book.
Check out his full article on this link. Important how he shows the value of teaching young people how to cook.
Category: food and nutrition
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Louise Davies Food Teachers Centre
Read Louise’s post about her work with the Food Teachers Centre which supports food teachers in their work.
IMPORTANT STUFF!
Gov report suggests food lessons should be called Food and Nutrition. That’s 5 name changes since I started teaching!
Read Louise’s post on this link
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What is cookery called now?
Government report 5/11/25 says – We recommend renaming ‘Cooking and Nutrition’ as ‘Food and Nutrition’
In 1970s my subject changed names 5 times!
Story from I taught them to cook is on this link.
Curriculum and Assessment Review says that students should have a grounding in practical cooking skills. They should also understand food hygiene and sustainability.
The focus should be on cooking healthy, nutritious meals.
Download the report on this link – go to p70
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