I spoke briefly at a Food Growing in Schools Task Force conference the other day, offering a summary of the day. I'll not trouble you with what I said, though you can see a few presenters' PPts here, other than to recall the piece of whimsy with which I ended. This was that, at the 11th hour, a messenger would come hot-bottom on a Boris Bike from the DfE, and burst into the room waving a piece of paper which said:
- Sorry about all that nonsense about academies and nutritional standards; we'll fix it.
- We fully accept all the Task Force recommendations, and will throw our weight behind them.
- We understand that food growing in schools has to be fully integrated with what's taught, and this will feature in the revised national curriculum.
- Mr Gove's new mantra is 'Every school a food growing school'.
Ah, well!
Had this actually come into being, I'd have suggested a competition for the next day's Daily Mail headline (p. 19, probably) announcing this. My (winning) entry would have been the title of this post.
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