I seem to be in a minority here. At middle school in the 80s, we had 4h/week of "arts and crafts" which varied term to term, but broadly it was Home Ec (basically cookery and needlwork), Art (both painting and sculpture) and Woodwork/Metalwork (it takes a teacher with nerves of steel to let 10-year-old loose on a bandsaw). Girls and boys were expected to do the same.

I did also spend a year in France when I was 10-11, and we had some serious cookery classes at school there. I remember being told off for cracking an egg on the side of the bowl, and shown how to crack it with a knife to give you a perfect shell for separating, and minimising the possibility of getting fragments in the mix.