School in Britain

School in Britain

A school day in Britain usually begins at 8:45 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. and Students go to school from Monday to Friday but not on Saturday. Often students do sports or attend after school clubs immediately after school for an hour or two and then they go home around 5:30 p.m. The day is long and so lunch is an important break in the school day. In primary school, children use lunch tickets which their parents for in advance. For dessert students can eat an apple pie with custard or a choice of fruit or yogurt. Oliver, a famous celebrity chef started a big campaign in Britain to eliminate fast food from school dinner menus. He helped to change attitudes to food and now more school menus have healthy choices, including the important recommended daily allowance of fresh fruit and vegetables.
In 2005 a lot of children in america were overweight. Experts and doctors say that they risk serious health problems and they often suffer from depression. They are result of lack of physical activity of physical activity but genetics play an important role in the weight. Our society is very sedentary and children watch more than two ours television every they or the used to spend their time playing video games. Parents should cut down fat and calories in their diet and children should not eat while they watch TV and they have to do more sports. Today we spend a lot of times playing and watching TV because there to many programs and there aren't good sports.