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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Empower students with scientific by learning factors needs to grow plants. mathematical skills by counting, shapes, colours etc. Health, learning what's in the plants they planted that makes them strong.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Learning gardening, landscaping or food science.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Motivate them to consume what they grey. Encourage them to grow their own vegetables because it is fun.

“The kit was a handy and helpful resource to have in an new entrant class. The students had fun in planting their own little garden. They took responsibility of watering and caring it.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Decoding the messages/ reading and writing Science with learning about plants and how they grow.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Using the food for cooking. learning how to tend the gardens at school as well.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children are keen to see how the plants grow and how they can eat them afterwards.

“This was such a fun way to introduce gardening for our children. They loved the secret messages and getting the chance to grow the plant.s”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? N/a

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Can be built into our planning at the beginning of the year as I now know more about the process etc

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students talked about trying at least one new veg/fruit.

“Students were engaged and interested in the process of growing and caring for there seeds. Next time I would send the seedlings home earlier as we had school holidays just after they started to sprout.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Our reading programme has been based around this for the last three week. In maths we have covered statistics and measurement and time. Science has included lifecycles, germination, and many other areas of the living world strand. Writing, we have written

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This is an area that can be expanded on in many ways. It would be wonderful if as a staff we sat down and made learning progressions from yr1-yr6, with explicit learning opportunities and outcomes for the children.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? it has given us a platform to have in depth discussions about what we eat, what we should eat and why. This has lead to statistical information gathering. Children seeing what other children are eating and what they like is a fantastic motivator for tryin

“We were lucky enough to receive a kit at the very end of Term 3, as we were on the wait list. This term we have started our little gardens. This has been an incredibly engaging programme for all of the students. In particular it has captured the attention of a student with autism. All of her learning over the past 3 weeks has been around our little garden inquiry. She has written instructions, measured, and read an enormous amount about the care for plants, and the science of plants.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? I was hoping that we would get to taking daily photos of the growth cycle and then writing weekly diary entries about the growth of the plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? In future I think there could be clearer instructions for the teachers - my job share teacher and the student teacher who were running it didn't find the instructions particularly useful. I think having students design and build spaces to transfer the lit

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? As stated the kit went mouldy very quickly and was disposed of before the students had the opportunity to fully engage with it.

“Unfortunately as it arrived during lockdown the plans that we had had previously around the use of the little garden had to be changed due to the new circumstances. This meant that it was run by a student teacher and my job share teacher and they did not have the same buy in that I had when I registered. The kit also went very mouldy very quickly, and unfortunately the decision was made to dispose of the little garden by the other teacher and the student teacher before the class had been able to fully engage with it.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Science - exploring how things grow. Insects in the soil to help. Multiple Writing opportunities. Maths measurement and number. Art we drew vege- people to decorate our club.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Cooking the vegetable and tasting Art drawing our grown veges look at textures. Maths measurement statistics etc.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? I have notice children bringing more vegetables in their lunches and talking more about what is good for you .

“The children In my class were very engaged and worked collaboratively to discuss and plant and nurture their seedlings. The materials you sent were perfect for my age level. They were excited to see the growth, especially after the weekend. We have now planted the seedlings in a school garden and they love going and helping to weed and water. They loved the badges and letterbox (which we will recycle Into a Room 2 letterbox ) That have learnt about a variety of new vegetables and it will be interesting to see them taste them once they have grown. Thank you for your wonderful resources and for providing a great learning experience for our tamariki.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Great for writing tasks

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We are going to progress further and have a vegetable tasting in class as a writing prompt

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Several of my class were keen to try new vegetables the have never tasted before

“Great resources, and online support. My class have enjoyed watching the plants grow.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We used maths to measure our seedlings and to compare the tallest, shortest etc. We used science to find out about the life cycle of some of the vegetables and the germination of the seeds. We used written language to fill in the application forms for the

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? When our vegetables grow sufficiently so we can harvest them we will be reading and following recipes to make a meal which utilises the vegetables. This will also allow for more recount writing and measurement opportunities.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children learnt the names of some new vegetables and herbs e.g. borage and were more willing to try new foods when they were reminded of their pledge.

“The unit was engaging and the children learnt about the importance of eating vegetables for health. They also learnt to sow seeds, look after the seedlings and try new foods. This fitted in well with our new school lunches which are requiring children to try foods that are new to some of them. Some things to change for next time would be the very tricky letterbox. It would have been far easier to cut it out if perhaps the cut lines were perforated or perhaps include it in the contents of the box already pre-cut. I know some of the other teachers gave up on making the box due to the difficulty in cutting such thick card, especially the slots for the tabs to fit into. The tray for the seedlings was great at first but over time it developed highly dangerous black mould. Please do not use this material again for anything which is likely to be near moisture. The risk to health is not worth the savings to the environment by using this material. The badges, pledge cards, sepia ";photograph"; and matching game certainly captured the children's interest and were easy to use.”

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