Cake Fridays Are Staff Wellbeing… Really? #103
Cake Fridays are often called “staff wellbeing” in schools, but are they really?
In this episode I’m talking about the culture we’ve created around food in staff rooms: Friday cakes as a reward for surviving the week, being told you’re “good” for saying no, the judgement that comes with bringing nutritious food from home, and why women in particular seem to have so much to say about what other women are eating.
I also share what people didn’t see when I was the teacher turning up with my Tupperware and salads. From the outside, it looked like I had nutrition figured out, while behind closed…
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