New national curriculum published – cooking is compulsory

17 Sep 2013

For the first time ever, practical cookery is compulsory for children up to Year 9 in the new national curriculum just published by the Department for Education. The new curriculum lays out the importance of ‘instilling a love of cooking’ in pupils from a young age. The requirement for cookery lessons will come into effect in 2014.

You can read the new national curriculum on the Department for Education website, as well as the summary response to the July-August 2013 consultation.