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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? - Maths: statistical graphing on diff vegetables/fruit Writing- listing, writing about fav fruits/veges

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Baking: Being able to use our grown produce to bake

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? -Trying new foods, keen to try different vegetables/fruit at home and school. - Being aware of why we need to eat these

“My students really enjoyed this unit, However the timing of the holidays made it hard to keep the plants alive.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Literacy - Writing about each stage of the process, about making a secret club. Maths - measuring Inquiry - Service - kindness, growing veges for others, helping cooking at home

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Inquiry - sustainability Growing a school garden, helping

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Great for discussing new vegetables they hadn't heard of before.

“Excellent kit, My students loved being a part of the Little Garden League. They were really hooked in from the start. They enjoyed watching their seedlings grow and it gave them a real sense of responsibility and fitted in well with our theme of service - growing food for others, being kind to their plants etc”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? science - plants writing - about how to grow plants, codes, letters maths - measuring growth, volume when watering

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? we did experiments with different growing things.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We had kids try new vegetables for the first time. They reported they didn’t like it but tried new things, so that’s positive. Their knowledge of fruits and vegetable definitely grew, especially with the alliteration of vegetable names. We came up with ou

“We loved the Little Garden Kit. The secrecy built excitement and interest. The secret codes were fabulous and we even wrote our own secret codes using LGL symbols to another LGL class at another school. It led us to lots of learning in plants, growing and life cycles.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Used the coding exercises which relates to our digital curriculum. Promoted different activities such as; imaginative writing using pictures of vegetables as prompts. Also, spelling lists with vegetable names.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? I would use the kit in future to: get the students to develop plans with vegetables which included planning of ways to use them in meals. Also, detailed learning about how to garden and companion plant vegetables in the students home gardens.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Absolutely! It sparked fantastic class conversations about healthy food and recognition of vegetables and how we may use them.

“This was a fantastic kit to use with my classroom. It introduced some children to vegetables they had never heard of before! The children were most excited about watching their seedlings grow. Having the club, with the pledge and badge gave the whole kit and extra appeal for the students.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Science Link Maths Link (measurement) English link (writing and Reading)

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Importance of Healthy Eating Eating a balanced meal Food Pyramid

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We did a science focus on how plants grow so linked it the Little Garden Kit They all learnt the requirements of what living plants need to grow and the importance of eating healthily

“This Kit is just amazing. My Year2 class loved watching the plants grow each day and loved to make predictions on which plants would grow first.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths - measuring water for planting. Reading instructions. Code breaking technology - folding the envelope. Finding veg jokes.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Reading and following recipes for cooking veges grown. F

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students have added new veges to their vocabulary and are always checking my lunchbox to make sure I have a healthy lunch.

“My class really enjoyed the anticipation of opening the box. They loved the code breakers and they still love playing the veg card game. We enjoyed planting the seeds and watching them grow. The students had some wonderful ideas for how to entice people to try new vegs. Well resourced and very much appreciated.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? wasnt able to implement this much due to the second lock down

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? non awesome programme that is fun.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? it help students learn a variety of vegetables that are available. It helped students to understand the process of how a vegetable starts from a seed and grows. The hands on activity was very effective they enjoyed it and would talk about how their vegeta

“Great way of engaging students in how the earth can provide for us. How we can be caretakers of the land and how fresh vegetables can help us with energy to learn at school.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We are learning about animals in Term 4 so the kit gave the students the opportunity make links to food chains and discuss the animals that eat plants and those that eat meat.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? One of the students brought in his own little garden plants from home to share with the class as he was so engaged with the planting activity. We have set up the little garden near the entrance to our classroom and the children enjoy going up to it during

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It is helping the students to become more aware of the different varieties of vegetables that are available and making them curious tasting them when they are ready.

“The children in Room 8 all enjoyed watching the seedlings grow and are fascinated by the changes to the height of the plants every day. I am impressed that the seedlings have been so hardy as they are thriving in the classroom even if we forget to water them every day.”

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