Stars in call for primary school cookery classes

FAMOUS names from the world of food, Dame Prue Leith, Delia Smith and Stanley Tucci, are backing a call to get children cooking at primary school.

- JENNY GARNSWORTHY

> Dame Prue Leith joins Year 1 and 2 pupils at St Clement & St James Primary School in West London for a cookery lesson

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The trio are taking their campaign to parliament today, as they argue that hands-on cooking lessons lead to significant improvements in pupils’ cooking and key life skills, as well as their understanding of healthy eating.

They are calling on the Government to do more to get children cooking as soon as they start school at the age of four by having access to regular practical cookery lessons.

They said that since cooking facilities were removed from schools, hands-on cookery has been infrequent and is only squeezed in when time allows.