Cookery lessons will now be compulsory for English schoolchildren. This follows six years of campaigning by Jamie Oliver to have the subject included in the curriculum. From September all pupils aged 11-14 will be taught to cook for at least an hour a week.
This follows last September's introduction of 'Jamie's Home Cooking Skills BTEC', a qualification equivalent to half a GCSE. The course is written like one of Oliver's cookbooks, with modules called 'Pasta La Vista Baby, and 'Stewpendous'.
There are currently 5,000 pupils taking the BTEC, a figure which is expected to increase dramatically when cookery becomes part of the curriculum lower down the school. Oliver hopes the move will help to combat obesity in children by teaching them to cook and eat healthily. Hopefully, our cookery school will do the same.
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