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Health day - year 10

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Jux · 02/07/2013 11:29

Anyone had experience of this?

Apparently at dd's school at some point during the day the boys will have a workshop on male health, while at the same time the girls will do make up . Moreover, the girls have to bring in their own make up. What is it about? (They have a separate workshop on skin care so it's not that, either.)

I am a bit annoyed, to say the least, that the girls don't seem to be doing female health - cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, how to check their breasts etc etc.

It may be that dd has misunderstood, but that seems unlikely.

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AnythingNotEverything · 02/07/2013 11:37

WTF?!

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Jux · 02/07/2013 11:45

Yep.

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tungthai · 02/07/2013 12:10

Could it part of Applied Science? I did GCSE Applied Science and I remember a module on make-up. I have no idea why it was deemed necessary but the lesson included one of my classmates demonstrating how to apply make up. I think the boys were present but I'm not 100% certain.

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Jux · 02/07/2013 17:27

No it's not. It's a whole day of health related stuff including classes on STIs, alcohol, drugs etc, but includes yoga, pilates, and this other stuff.

I've actually spoken to the organiser ow, and I am the first parent to complain in 15 years

All the girls do skin care and make up while the boys do male health however. Apparently this is because the nurse who comes to talk to them about skin care doesn't do stuff about anything else. Seems odd to me. The teacher says he'll think about it for the future though.

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ISingSoprano · 02/07/2013 18:49

The rest of the day sounds great - maybe it's just an attempt at a light hearted session to balance the other grittier stuff.

Casey · 02/07/2013 18:56

Having seen too many oompa loompa teenage girls and beautiful young girls with perfect skin trowelling stuff on by the bucketload; I think giving them some info on proper make-up is a great idea and should be on the curriculum in every school. (Along with education on a variety of health issues, etc.)

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Jux · 02/07/2013 20:37

ISingSoprano, I wondered about that, but thought that I would then end up asking if the boys got to play the biscuit game as a bit of male light hearted relief!

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englishteacher78 · 05/07/2013 07:18

Seems odd. I teach at a boys school and our equivalent day consists of four serious modules a delivered in a light-hearted, where appropriate, way.
Make-up for year 10 girls sounds ridiculous. I know I'm a grump but I'd be complaining as a teacher - they'd be better off in lessons (or as you say doing women's health).

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Jux · 05/07/2013 08:27

Thanks, englishteacher. I've been feeling a bit meh since I spoke to the teacher who organises it all. I do appreciate his hard work, and I realise that they get whoever they can for free, and that make up is a bit of light-hearted fun (but it's not for dd). No one has complained about it in 15 years. And that surprises me too.

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