to think that children shouldn't spend all day

[mum80]

baking to raise money for school. This is junior school children.

Call Ofsted!

Fuck Ofsted, call ROBOCOP. He won't put up with this BS.

How can it take an entire afternoon to learn to cook a potato? Did you have to watch it in the oven for an hour and a half?

We spent an hour and a half doing theory (yes) and then an hour baking it. We had a break somewhere in between because it really knackers you out doing jacket potatoes.

DD is in Y5 and once a fortnight she spends a whole afternoon baking/cooking, and the alternate afternoons doing woodwork. Not even any money being raised from it either.

Can't see the problem tbh.

They should be spending all day doing edumacational stuff though. This is the fault of the ConDems.

At my school every Christmas they did a party for the old people, they sang carols, did plays and we provided a buffy! I was always picked to help make the food! Now I love cooking. And yes we had to calculate, communicate, work as a team.

YABU

Ha Bupcakes, thats nothing. I once spent a DOUBLE lesson in secondary school learning how to make TOAST!

I was classed as a 'bright' child so could us the grill on the oven, but some had to use a toaster. I shit you not!

Ah fuck

I started that reply then went in the bath

It's a wind up

Baking im shocked and stunned BAKING TO RAISE FUNDS its disgraceful

I dread to think how long it would take the kids of today to make toast/jacket spuds/crumblies what with all the risk assessments they'd have to do each time they needed to pick up a utensil/use hot water/fart.

Ok fair play. I am obv being silly. Can of course see educational benefits of baking. Just though "all day" was a little exceessive.

Was that a buffy as in the vampire slayer storm?

I too remember a whole period in secondary devoted to making a baked potato.

IN THE MICROWAVE.

Mmmmm cake......

Poor OP.

Your school had microwaves?

Very lah-di-dah!

Ds 2 was supposed to cook today. He refused. Bloody delinquent.

Tell Gove - that joyless out trout will snuff out the fun in a heartbeat.

He is like a modern day Cromwell.

Good old op. Took it on the chin. I like her style.

Scrambled egg on toast. Half an hour on theory, an hour to make it, an hour to scrub the burnt egg off the bottom of the pot. Happy, happy times.

I'm shocked and saddened by this blatant misuse of free childcare.

mum80 - it was all day, yes? But how often do they get to do extended cooking? DD does in effect a day's work every single month, 1.5-2 days every half term.

I'm so ENRAGED I might fart.

I would be very happy for my child to spend a day baking at school

I learned to make Bakewell tarts at school. Didn't bloody work. Tried to make one today and it was shit. Stupid school.