Do you think sharing a birthday cake in school breaks healthy eating rules? London, Oct 17 (ANI): A Brit schoolgirl is said to have been banned from dishing out slices of her birthday cake in class by the headteacher because it broke healthy eating rules.
Olivia Morris, 9, had brought the homemade chocolate cake her great gran made into school to share with fellow pupils, but was left stunned when she was not allowed to serve it, as it did not comply with new guidelines.
Outraged great gran Eileen Morris, 79, slammed the school ruling, and branded the ban "absolute nonsense"."I have baked and lovingly sent countless cakes to school over the years when my family have celebrated a birthday and now to be told my cakes must be discouraged because they are not healthy eating has left me stunned," ….
"It is absolute nonsense. I understand the need to teach children healthy eating but surely a birthday cake is a special treat."Sharing a cake with your friends on your birthday is a lovely old tradition and for children to be told it falls foul of healthy eating rules is beyond belief," she stated.
"But the head teacher told Rebecca, ‘I don’t know how to tell you this but we cannot accept the cake’. "The headteacher said they had been informed they could not accept cakes for the children in future because it did not comply with healthy eating rules.
But headteacher Heather Green said that the rule had been put into place to promote healthy eating. "We love enjoying the birthdays of our pupils and we celebrate them both in class and in assemblies," Green said. "At the same time however we are really working hard to promote healthy eating and lifestyles among our pupils through Healthy Schools and other projects. "It is a tricky balance not to give a mixed message to pupils if we say to them ‘be healthy and eat healthily at school’ but at the same time we say ‘bring in your cakes and buns to celebrate all our different events’.
it does not break healthy eating rules
healthy eating is eating a low amount of fat and sugar not cutting it out together
shame on the headmistress she really does not understand what healthy eating is all about
she should concentrate on teaching students from what little knowledge she does have References :
I worked in a school which was very extreme. Basically everything the school cooked was wholemeal including pizza. No white bread. Cakes and biscuits were sugar free so tasted horrid. Everything was salt and season free. Not even pepper.
So a lot turned to sandwiches except this didn’t work out much better as any biscuits, anything with chocolate in, sweets, pizza, sausage rolls etc were banned. At one point, rice cakes were! Ridiculous much?
This lead to children actually eating more sweets and junk as their parents would treat them more after school. It was pretty dire.
I don’t agree in it and believe that moderation should be taught.
I had to deal with a six year old who was in tears and refusing to have a burger because she had learnt at school that burgers are bad and will make you fat. The poor girl was terrified of being "fat". References : Sweet Fish actually has a point in regards to Jamie Oliver, he wanted standards bought up but people have took it too far and have forgotten about moderation.
Sweet fish, cuppa tea? Or something stronger?
You shouldn’t judge me in regards to my views to the BNP and my question on Englishness which was genuine because I didn’t really understand it myself.
Golddigger: good point BUT children cook at school and I can tell you their hygeine is pretty gross. One child sneezed (snot and all) into a cake they were making at a school I worked with, the teacher was like "oh it doesn’t matter". Mank!
It’s the triumph knell of food dictator Jamie Oliver. References : that’s two lefties agreeing with me in the space of half an hour.. what the hell am i doing wrong? I need a drink..
joshing … cup of tea i mean yup… I’m not a BNP supporter or voter by the way.
i think it goes to the extreme level when a childsbreak is scrutinised by the teacher and a fuss is made yet the child goes to get her school lunch which i pay £ 11 per week for and when asked what did you have for lunch im told i had spaghetti bolognaise but without the bolognaise in other words she ate just the spaghetti and that was all i asked her the following day what did you have she said she had sweetcorn and stuffing she told the dinner lady she dint want anything else were is the healthy goodness in that rubbish References :
How can we expect our children to grow up as responsible adults when we have such idiots controlling the schools? What needs to be done is to remove all vending machines from schools. I know more than one child that is addicted to Mountain Dew soda. The old rule of everything in moderation is still the key and not being able to celebrate a birthday for a child is just cruel. References :
That headteacher does not know the diference between healthy school dinners and the lovely happy birthday being celebrated by a pupil- not everyday lunch time is it! Just think Faith if we were starving those rules would just vanish overnight! I’m glad the grandmother spoke out-she has many years of common sense! References :
I don’t agree with it breaking healthy eating rules however I might be more sympathetic if the reason was Health and Safety.
I’m sure the great granny is a wonderful cook, but imagine if she wasn’t hygienic? Dirty hands, cig in mouth, unclean work tops, I wouldn’t quite like my child eating the cake in that circumstance, would you? References :
They did this at my daughter’s school. Our headteacher was particularly conscientious about healthy eating – where the kids were concerned, anyway. She would go through their lunch boxes and confiscate things she considered unhealthy – a biscuit or a cake bar. But across the room the "healthy eating" school lunch children were being given puddings and cakes as part of their dinner.
She banned birthday celebrations and yet, would buy in cakes and sweets for the teaching staff which it was a member of staff’s birthday.
And this was before Jamie Oliver hit the headlines.
Personally, I think there are more important things than being a food nazi. Like having fun. I do believe that obesity is a problem, but I do not see how the occasional slice of cake can be a problem.
If there are thirty children in the classroom, at the most that could be 30 slices of cake a year. Take away the birthdays that fall in the holidays or the kids or the parents that can’t be bothered. You’re down to about 15 slices of cake a year.
Is that such a problem? References :
Ridiculous. At my daughter’s nursery they have a little picnic outside for every birthday and parents receive a party bag with bubbles, a little book, tiny piece of cake and a small toy. References :
The headmistress, and her healthy eating rules are both insane in this instance.
It may well be appropriate to ensure that meals provided by the school are healthy, but the addition of an occasional cake, specially in celebration of a child’s birthday would not have any significant impact. I think even Jamie Oliver would agree with that.
And what a missed opportunity to encourage and teach the values of celebration, and of sharing, and of caring for others. References :
This is the problem of our current education system — they don’t EDUCATE, they POLICE. It is easier for them to set up a rule and prohibit anything might be dangous on school ground than actually teach students to understand right and wrong.
In California, public schools have similar bans — candy bars, sodas, plastic knifes…, etc. are all off the school ground. References :
Do you think sharing a birthday cake in school breaks healthy eating rules?
London, Oct 17 (ANI): A Brit schoolgirl is said to have been banned from dishing out slices of her birthday cake in class by the headteacher because it broke healthy eating rules.
Olivia Morris, 9, had brought the homemade chocolate cake her great gran made into school to share with fellow pupils, but was left stunned when she was not allowed to serve it, as it did not comply with new guidelines.
Outraged great gran Eileen Morris, 79, slammed the school ruling, and branded the ban "absolute nonsense"."I have baked and lovingly sent countless cakes to school over the years when my family have celebrated a birthday and now to be told my cakes must be discouraged because they are not healthy eating has left me stunned," ….
"It is absolute nonsense. I understand the need to teach children healthy eating but surely a birthday cake is a special treat."Sharing a cake with your friends on your birthday is a lovely old tradition and for children to be told it falls foul of healthy eating rules is beyond belief," she stated.
"But the head teacher told Rebecca, ‘I don’t know how to tell you this but we cannot accept the cake’. "The headteacher said they had been informed they could not accept cakes for the children in future because it did not comply with healthy eating rules.
But headteacher Heather Green said that the rule had been put into place to promote healthy eating. "We love enjoying the birthdays of our pupils and we celebrate them both in class and in assemblies," Green said. "At the same time however we are really working hard to promote healthy eating and lifestyles among our pupils through Healthy Schools and other projects. "It is a tricky balance not to give a mixed message to pupils if we say to them ‘be healthy and eat healthily at school’ but at the same time we say ‘bring in your cakes and buns to celebrate all our different events’.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20091017/882/twl-brit-girl-s-b-day-cake-banned-in-cla.html
it does not break healthy eating rules
healthy eating is eating a low amount of fat and sugar not cutting it out together
shame on the headmistress she really does not understand what healthy eating is all about
she should concentrate on teaching students from what little knowledge she does have
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That’s just stupid! Cake can be "enjoyed as part of a health balanced diet"
- as stated on packaging here in the UK.
I tell you if someone with half a brain got some power in this country . . . .
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I worked in a school which was very extreme. Basically everything the school cooked was wholemeal including pizza. No white bread. Cakes and biscuits were sugar free so tasted horrid. Everything was salt and season free. Not even pepper.
So a lot turned to sandwiches except this didn’t work out much better as any biscuits, anything with chocolate in, sweets, pizza, sausage rolls etc were banned. At one point, rice cakes were! Ridiculous much?
This lead to children actually eating more sweets and junk as their parents would treat them more after school. It was pretty dire.
I don’t agree in it and believe that moderation should be taught.
I had to deal with a six year old who was in tears and refusing to have a burger because she had learnt at school that burgers are bad and will make you fat. The poor girl was terrified of being "fat".
References :
Sweet Fish actually has a point in regards to Jamie Oliver, he wanted standards bought up but people have took it too far and have forgotten about moderation.
Sweet fish, cuppa tea? Or something stronger?
You shouldn’t judge me in regards to my views to the BNP and my question on Englishness which was genuine because I didn’t really understand it myself.
Golddigger: good point BUT children cook at school and I can tell you their hygeine is pretty gross. One child sneezed (snot and all) into a cake they were making at a school I worked with, the teacher was like "oh it doesn’t matter". Mank!
It’s the triumph knell of food dictator Jamie Oliver.
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that’s two lefties agreeing with me in the space of half an hour.. what the hell am i doing wrong? I need a drink..
joshing … cup of tea i mean yup… I’m not a BNP supporter or voter by the way.
i think that granny should have stormed the staff room to see how many cakes and biscuits were in there !
i can guarantee that all uk staff rooms have a large stock of unhealthy food
the world has gone mad
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i think it goes to the extreme level when a childsbreak is scrutinised by the teacher and a fuss is made yet the child goes to get her school lunch which i pay £ 11 per week for and when asked what did you have for lunch im told i had spaghetti bolognaise but without the bolognaise in other words she ate just the spaghetti and that was all i asked her the following day what did you have she said she had sweetcorn and stuffing she told the dinner lady she dint want anything else were is the healthy goodness in that rubbish
References :
How can we expect our children to grow up as responsible adults when we have such idiots controlling the schools? What needs to be done is to remove all vending machines from schools. I know more than one child that is addicted to Mountain Dew soda. The old rule of everything in moderation is still the key and not being able to celebrate a birthday for a child is just cruel.
References :
The headmistress is barking….If you can’t eat cake on your birthday, then when can you? I like the idea of kids sharing a cake….
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That headteacher does not know the diference between healthy school dinners and the lovely happy birthday being celebrated by a pupil- not everyday lunch time is it! Just think Faith if we were starving those rules would just vanish overnight! I’m glad the grandmother spoke out-she has many years of common sense!
References :
I don’t agree with it breaking healthy eating rules however I might be more sympathetic if the reason was Health and Safety.
I’m sure the great granny is a wonderful cook, but imagine if she wasn’t hygienic? Dirty hands, cig in mouth, unclean work tops, I wouldn’t quite like my child eating the cake in that circumstance, would you?
References :
They did this at my daughter’s school. Our headteacher was particularly conscientious about healthy eating – where the kids were concerned, anyway. She would go through their lunch boxes and confiscate things she considered unhealthy – a biscuit or a cake bar. But across the room the "healthy eating" school lunch children were being given puddings and cakes as part of their dinner.
She banned birthday celebrations and yet, would buy in cakes and sweets for the teaching staff which it was a member of staff’s birthday.
And this was before Jamie Oliver hit the headlines.
Personally, I think there are more important things than being a food nazi. Like having fun. I do believe that obesity is a problem, but I do not see how the occasional slice of cake can be a problem.
If there are thirty children in the classroom, at the most that could be 30 slices of cake a year. Take away the birthdays that fall in the holidays or the kids or the parents that can’t be bothered. You’re down to about 15 slices of cake a year.
Is that such a problem?
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Ridiculous. At my daughter’s nursery they have a little picnic outside for every birthday and parents receive a party bag with bubbles, a little book, tiny piece of cake and a small toy.
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No, it just shows "jobs-worth" stupidity
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The headmistress, and her healthy eating rules are both insane in this instance.
It may well be appropriate to ensure that meals provided by the school are healthy, but the addition of an occasional cake, specially in celebration of a child’s birthday would not have any significant impact. I think even Jamie Oliver would agree with that.
And what a missed opportunity to encourage and teach the values of celebration, and of sharing, and of caring for others.
References :
This is the problem of our current education system — they don’t EDUCATE, they POLICE. It is easier for them to set up a rule and prohibit anything might be dangous on school ground than actually teach students to understand right and wrong.
In California, public schools have similar bans — candy bars, sodas, plastic knifes…, etc. are all off the school ground.
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We have too many bloody head teacher of this ilk
Have you noticed that its invariably women head teachers that make up these silly rules
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Yet another poke in the eye from the nanny state.
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