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Mikey10 said:
Aside from the Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE which has been running for years, and BTEC Food Science and Nutrition?
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0.35% of GCSE entries in the last 2 years were Food and Nutrition based GCSEs apparently ....... so perhaps 4% of all students taking exams. The courses are there but few people take them.

Should be in PSHE or some such.
 
Mikey10 said:
Aside from the Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE which has been running for years, and BTEC Food Science and Nutrition?
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Cool for those whonwant a sports science degree or career in a similar field.
There is no doubt in my mind that there is not enough to prepare kids for life in terms of food skills and budgeting for life.
 
Grays_1890 said:
Cool for those whonwant a sports science degree or career in a similar field.
There is no doubt in my mind that there is not enough to prepare kids for life in terms of food skills and budgeting for life.
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Someone mentioned PSHE, I don’t see how there isn’t just a basic life skills course. Teach kids about cooking and nutrition, teach them about interest rates and mortgages, teach them how things to do with money work. There’s likely numerous other things too, pop it in there with some basic first aid and chances are a few might complain it’s boring due to young minds, but I bet they appreciate it more when they’re older than they do some of the older parts of maths and the like that most never use outside of a GCSE exam room.
 
Grays_1890 said:
Cool for those whonwant a sports science degree or career in a similar field.
There is no doubt in my mind that there is not enough to prepare kids for life in terms of food skills and budgeting for life.
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Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE is exactly what you describe. The BTEC is a more advanced version. It’s nothing to do with Sports Science.

Also, is there anything left that parents are expected to take responsibility for?

Rafa87 said:
Someone mentioned PSHE, I don’t see how there isn’t just a basic life skills course. Teach kids about cooking and nutrition, teach them about interest rates and mortgages, teach them how things to do with money work. There’s likely numerous other things too, pop it in there with some basic first aid and chances are a few might complain it’s boring due to young minds, but I bet they appreciate it more when they’re older than they do some of the older parts of maths and the like that most never use outside of a GCSE exam room.
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Have you any idea how crowded the curriculum already is? Not to mention teachers now being expected to act as everything from social workers to mental health specialists.
 
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Mikey10 said:
Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE is exactly what you describe. The BTEC is a more advanced version. It’s nothing to do with Sports Science.
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But its often sold as a pre requisite of that and also, if I am not mistaken, its an "option" not something thats sold in to kids as a guidance for life regardless, unless I am wrong there?
 
Mikey10 said:
See my comments above about how crowded the curriculum is.
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I don't disagree mate, but I think that pressure also comes from an archaic view to education and the idea that all kids are going to be academically focused the same, just on different scales of learning and aptitude.

I don't want pressure on teachers I want the pressure off those teachers with a pathway for kids who are clearly not on the same path as others but would benefit from a year or two years of what will prepare them for life without making them feel that failure in testing means they are viewed as at a disadvantage when they leave school.

Yes it would be MASS reform, but I am passionate about it as an idea, also knowing its not a perfect idea.
 
Mikey10 said:
Aside from the Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE which has been running for years, and BTEC Food Science and Nutrition?
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Give me the numbers for the former being taken as an option (even if their school offers it) and the latter is a 4 year under graduate course ...hardly doing big numbers.

This is under life skills along with the criminallly absent personal finance I keep banging on about
 
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Mikey10 said:
Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE is exactly what you describe. The BTEC is a more advanced version. It’s nothing to do with Sports Science.

Also, is there anything left that parents are expected to take responsibility for?



Have you any idea how crowded the curriculum already is? Not to mention teachers now being expected to act as everything from social workers to mental health specialists.
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Absolutely, and I also think you make a good point about parents needing to take more responsibility with some topics as well.

There are surely some subjects that are currently in the curriculum though which could make way for more modern day life skills? I think this is one of those things where perhaps I’m a bit behind the times, but there’s numerous things I was taught in school which I’ve never ever used in adult life and can’t see a need for, for most people, in the modern world. I think perhaps I’m talking more my ideal if the entire curriculum was reviewed as to what really needs to be in there.
 
Mikey10 said:
Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE is exactly what you describe. The BTEC is a more advanced version. It’s nothing to do with Sports Science.

Also, is there anything left that parents are expected to take responsibility for?



Have you any idea how crowded the curriculum already is? Not to mention teachers now being expected to act as everything from social workers to mental health specialists.
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This is an enormous issue. Teachers (like a couple of other public sector jobs) are expected to be professionals in (as you say) mental health and social work. All for relative peanuts. It is pathetic. Something serious needs to be done, and for me, that would be to invest in a wave of fresh, young social workers and mental health experts via increased educational funding and improved levels of compensation. If in 5-7 years time we had a wave of young people to take on such rolls, perhaps we could progress as a society?

Short-term with regards to health and nutrition? Hire someone like Beckham or pros still playing (Kane would be excellent) to present filmed talks on how 'cool' it is to fuel and exercise properly and where it can take you. Disburse this stuff via social media platforms too. Make it cool. Get players who resonate with social media audiences and subscribers to do this work. It could really help...
 
Rafa87 said:
Absolutely, and I also think you make a good point about parents needing to take more responsibility with some topics as well.

There are surely some subjects that are currently in the curriculum though which could make way for more modern day life skills? I think this is one of those things where perhaps I’m a bit behind the times, but there’s numerous things I was taught in school which I’ve never ever used in adult life and can’t see a need for, for most people, in the modern world. I think perhaps I’m talking more my ideal if the entire curriculum was reviewed as to what really needs to be in there.
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I think maths and languages could probably be reduced - they are the ones that seem to have most replaced by technology in recent decades (languages is more imminent than current but real babel fishes arent far off).

I dont think religion should be taught in schools. It could perhaps be a small strand of sociology.
 
thfcsteff said:
Short-term with regards to health and nutrition? Hire someone like Beckham or pros still playing (Kane would be excellent) to present filmed talks on how 'cool' it is to fuel and exercise properly and where it can take you. Disburse this stuff via social media platforms too. Make it cool. Get players who resonate with social media audiences and subscribers to do this work. It could really help...
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Just ban or heavily tax ultra processed foods. Except the corporate lobby puppetmasters would never allow it
 
thfcsteff said:
This is an enormous issue. Teachers (like a couple of other public sector jobs) are expected to be professionals in (as you say) mental health and social work. All for relative peanuts. It is pathetic. Something serious needs to be done, and for me, that would be to invest in a wave of fresh, young social workers and mental health experts via increased educational funding and improved levels of compensation. If in 5-7 years time we had a wave of young people to take on such rolls, perhaps we could progress as a society?
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Tremendous post.
 
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