イギリス学校訪問後日談

2010.09.27

教職大学院の小松教授と大学院生たちの訪問団が9月15日(水)に訪問したPetersfield CE Primary School のAmanda 校長先生から、日英の学校給食の違いや似ていることなどについての校内ニュースに書かれた記事の原稿が送られてきました。

  1. 似ている点
    • 健康で安全な食材の提供や食育の重視
    • 子ども達が喜んで、楽しく食べられる学校給食の工夫

  2. 違う点
    • イギリスは弁当を持参しても良い
    • 給食指導といった教師の関わりはなく、食堂での支援員が食事の世話をする
    • ほとんどの学校はランチルームがあり、教室でランチを食べることはない
    • 日本の方が指導的機能が強く、配膳や後片付けなども児童が自主的に行うケースが多い


Amanda校長先生は、以前に日本の学校を訪問した時に上のように感じられたようです。学校規模の大きさにも驚かれていました。

以下、その英文です。

Japanese Visitors Delighted by the Standard of Cambridge Catering!

Petersfield School in Orwell, a small rural Primary School of 120 pupils serving five Cambridgeshire villages, hosted a group of 12 high profile Japanese graduate students and lecturer visitors from Tokyo' Tamagawa university in mid September. They had come to look at aspects of the school's provision in many areas, not only in curricular development, but PSHCE and healthy eating too. They enquired closely into what was meant here by Healthy School status.
The students were delighted by the work Petersfield school was doing on SEAL- the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning, and thoroughly enjoyed their lunchtime in the school hall, where the CCS team did them proud.
The Headteacher, Amanda Tuck said, “The students were seriously impressed by the quality and quantity of wholesome food on offer and were particularly pleased with the salad bar and the choices available. They particularly liked the jacket potatoes with various fillings, and many stayed on in the lunch hall and talked at length to pupils who had packed lunches about their food choices. They couldn't understand why everyone wasn't taking advantage of the great CCS food on offer.”
The Japanese schools serve lunches in classes and the students eat on their wooden desk tops. They clear up after the meal as part of their daily routine before cleaning the school. Japanese parents are very concerned, as are ours, that school food should be nutritious and well cooked from locally sourced materials- Indeed the greatest number of hits on Japanese school web-sites are from parents who want to know what their children will be eating in school each day. In Japan all children in their (much )larger schools of 600 pupils eat school meals. They are very well planned and almost always cooked on the premises.