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How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 1. The base recipe was a good one, but when we took out the sugar it tasted yuck. 2. I liked grating the carrot for the muffin, but when we cooked them, it felt like something was missing as it didn't taste like carrot cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The science experiments that we did with dancing raisins and blow up the balloon with vinegar and baking soda. The students made a connection with what happens when using baking soad or raising agents in baking.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That they know they can bake without lots of sugar. That they can reduce the amount of sugar and the product still bakes well. Do not over mix the batter.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? A little, but I think it would have worked better at the beginning of the year when the students were more engaged.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? They can make a simple muffin recipe using 4 ingredients and then innovate on them.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 70%

How keen were your students to try healthy alternatives in baking at the start of this kit?

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? We did discuss healthier alternatives, however the students felt that if they didn't want to use them they wouldn't.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Rising costs of healthier options, not being able to cook at home (someone else cooks), taste is really important and their tastebuds are really trained to crave sweet food.

“This was an interesting kit. The students were happy to make the base recipe muffins, but as soon as we had to substitute the sugar they were not happy! They did not like the taste or texture of the vege cakes at all. We did talk about over-mixing the batter as this made the batter quite dense when it cooked., and the 3rd attempts were much less dense, however they still did not like the 'sugar free' versions. We used beetroot, kumara, stewed apples and pears, bananas, potato and carrot. There was much discussion about what we could do to improve the recipe and they all lead back to using sugar, so we tried with a less amount of sugar and they were happy with this mix. Some of the stdeunts tried the recipe at home and they all agreed that there were better muffin recipes that had the taste, texture and smell that they preferred. It was an interesting series of lessons.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them It was so much fun. We never get to cook. I hadn’t thought about using different ingredients like me did before.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Trialing and reflecting and the. Trying again.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? There are ways we can make things yummy and healthy.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Great, went well with our Food for Thought programme

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Sharing knowledge, some have tested different things at home.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 90%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Linked in to our wider health curriculum learning. Link to school celebrations-school breakfasts and shared morning teas. How can we use healthier options at these?

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? None

“What a great idea for a kit. Fun, hands on and great learning across different curriculum areas.”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them No thanks- I don't like chick peas. (same child after blind tasting,) this one is nice. Another student after trying each version - yummy, delicious!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having the tins of veg for the students to see. It put them all off until they blind tasted each version

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Try a bit before deciding what you think it will taste like.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Moderately. All of my students are Very High needs so it's tricky to gauge the impact. It is great to see them trying new stuff.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? We always send home some of the results of our food tech. Difficult to gauge opinion.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 100%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Encouraging Whanau to try different recipes

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Special needs, Whanau choice

“We finally got to make our versions of the veggie cakes. We have 5 students but for one reason and another, every time we should have done baking, 2 were absent. The three that ended up making the cakes love any sort of baking. The fantastic results were brilliant because our students were encouraged to try a little bit of each version. First they tried the plain cakes. No clear winner. Then we asked them to choose different toppings. Chocolate sauce was the outright winner. I am looking forward to trying other versions of this next year when all of our students are in class.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The food is yum! I enjoyed making food that was healthy but still delicious

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? the cans of food and voucher helped me buy some of the items needed as we needed to make a few batches

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? the knowledge of food modification

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? it showed them that making small changes can have a big impact on your health

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? passing this knowledge on

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 80%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? promote healthier eating

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? what is provided from the family

“My students really enjoyed this kit and it linked so well to our inquiry on health and wellbeing and making modifications for food”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I didn't know you could put veges in a cake", "Next time we can use the veges from our school garden"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Everyone can have a go

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That cakes can be made relatively healthy.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Fairly effective but I think many of my learners would still be hesitant to make a cake with veges if they got to choose!

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? That our kai can be easily adapted to be healthier.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 80%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Providing healthier options.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Price of healthy foods.

“This cake worked really well for my class. They loved having a go with all the different ingredients.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them The vege cupcake was actually really yummy. I am going to make this recipe at home now too

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The voucher

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That healthy can mean delicious too.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very successful, many tried something they would otherwise have never tried and were pleasantly surprised

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Advocate for healthier alternatives when baking

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 90%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Sharing healthier alternatives with whānau

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of healthier food

“My students loved being able to apply their knowledge of science and maths and then be rewarded with a yummy product at the end. Many students were also pleasantly surprised with the taste after using the substitutes. It was an activity that students were chatting about long after it was over”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We loved coming up with new ideas, it made us feel like a chef.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having a range of options

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Making health food can be easy and cheap.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Was good

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? There are easy ways to make simple food healthy you don't need to complicate it.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 50%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? We do Garden to table at our school and this was great to make links with.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? dietry requiments

“It was great to get all the ingredients including a voucher. My children love anything with food so this was a hit. This kit started lots of conversation .”

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Posted 1 year ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them I can't even taste the beetroot. I like how the vegetables all mixed in and the cake turned out like a normal cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The cake recipe cards.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Healthier options to some of our favourite foods

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Excellent

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Using healthier options to create 'food in disguise'.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 60%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? The students shared the recipes with their whānau. We had a chocolate cake bake off the next term

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? What is in the pantry

“This pack meets the brief of the title. It taught the students about using vegetables in cooking as healthier substitutes. For some of the students who thought they hated vegetables, they were pleasantly surprised by how the vegetables couldn't even be tasted.”

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