Food Tech Contribution

[SequinsandStilettos]

If your DC is in a secondary that asks for a contribution as opposed to taking in ingredients, how much are you asked to pay and how often?

No email sent or any details given at all, just found a Parent Pay request for £15.00.

I am aware not all children will be paying, but if they were that would be £2655.

DC has cooked once so far - baguette pizza.

Will the £15 cover the whole year or will it be per term? What does your school do?

Even if it is termly I think £15 for ingredients and no hassle sounds like a bargain. (Sorry, possibly not helpful.)

Just paid £15 per child (twins) for y 7

I agree, £15 for a term sounds like a bargain. Plus you avoid the hassle.

It's a good idea in a lot of ways as it avoids parents buying a bag of flour for their child to use 100g and then the rest go to waste (if they don't usually have flour in - just as an example).

£15 would be a bargain. (My child did Food Tech until year 11) and spent much more than £15 per term.

I wish DDs school did this, I've paid well over £15 for her cooking stuff so far. Not to mention the mad dash to the supermarket after work. She does this class on half termly rotation with other subjects like Art, textiles and performing arts

In year 7 my son did a term each of DT, art and Food Tech

Or in our case

• couscous
• strong flour
• yeast
• cinnamon sticks

Then there is the transporting 50ml of milk, and a raw egg or a tablespoon of golden syrup. I bought various useful pots which worked really well until DD left them somewhere at school and they got thrown away.

We have to send the ingredients in.
They cost much more than £15 a term and it’s a pain in the arse remembering and buying a small enough amount and then transporting it
I would much rather send money

I think mine was £26, but definitely worth it to avoid the weekly last minute panic

We pay £15 and it's brilliant! No more chasing after ingredients at the last minute.

It also covers woodwork and metal work too so not just food, all of the DT curriculum

I am aware not all children will be paying, but if they were that would be £2655. aye, bunch of thieving scammers!

£12.50 per year for food.
£25 in y7 to cover DT for Y7/8/9.
They do one term of food, one term of DT and one Textiles a year.
Bargain.

It was £15 per term when I was at school.i. 2006, so that sounds like a bargain to me.

Saying that we don't pay for ingredients as cost of the school day is supposed to be free for all.

That would be worth every penny.

The number of times I had to buy a packet of something they used not much of to produce something that our family wasn't tremendously keen on eating! In fact, having 3 children 3 years apart meant often I had to buy 3 lots of things as it then sat in the cupboard until the next one needed it-and then to find it was out of date so I had to buy it again.

And it's actually better for those who can't afford it, as it's less obvious they haven't got the ingredients assuming the school uses PP or something to fund those who can't pay. I was sending dd in with double the ingredients for a friend of hers who should have had hers funded by the school but was too embarrassed to ask.

So far mine has made pitta pizza and cheesy pasta. (And fruit salad but that lesson was cancelled for her class as its a Monday so they were 2 lessons behind the others)

Thats the whole class buying a pack of pittas each, a tube of tomato puree each, pack of bacon each, pot of cream cheese each... wish we just paid a one off donation! We would expect to have to bring in their own paint or wood or chemicals...

Thats wouldn't expect to bring in chemicals etc, not would!

Sounds a bargain to me. Well worth paying.