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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 Children surprised that they couldn't taste some vegetables + loved practicing their weighing skills

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The measuring and knowing cause and effect

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Cooking- the kids loved everything about the cooking process

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? We had a deep discussion around healthy foods and the implications of this on our bodies.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Some children wanted to take home the sheets and make their own versions.

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

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

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How inspired were your students to try healthy alternatives to backing after using the kit?

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Some children wanted to go home and make their own versions which as a result the rest of the family will try and appreciate.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Money/ income/ time consuming

“The children loved this kit! They enjoyed the science behind it, the weighing (learning about cause and effect) and of course the eating. Many were surprised that they liked their cake! I think they were expecting it to be bland or taste of vegetables. I did find I had to use a bit of class consumables to pay for the food we needed (particularly eggs). However, I would love to do this kit again :)”

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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 so loved this. I couldn't taste the difference really.' 'I like how we got to choose which ingredient to change out to see if it worked.'

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The science behind the baking was so en pointe with our Inquiry 'Matter Matters' and the students could see this clearly. They loved being hands-on and creative with their thinking and that they got to eat their experiments at the end too!

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Baking has so many levels of learning - measuring, fractions, science, fair testing, procedural writing, health.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The discussion around sugar was a highlight and the disbelief that putting veges in cakes could taste pretty good.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? That sugar can be replaced by vegetables and still taste okay. Some of the students went home and recreated these with their families.

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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? It could be used as an introduction to Healthy Eating options - the students could have a shared lunch where they invite whānau in to share their healthy eating - could incorporate with the Garden to Table initiative.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost, education, time.

“This kit was excellent and fitted in well with our Science Unit on Matter. The students loved the opportunity to test their 'experiments' and although they didn't all work out, the process was a lot of fun and highlighted the science beautifully, along with the bonus of encouraging healthy eating.”

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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 liked watching the ingredients cook and bubble. And the cakes were sort of nice I think. I preferred the hummus on bread. And I think we should eat more vegetables in our food.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The ingredients and the measuring scales was also really helplful when we studied mass and weight.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? To be adventurous with food. To try new things.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The kids enjoyed trying new foods.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? When you make your own food - you have more control over what goes into your body.

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

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Students can share their learning with their whanau.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Language barriers - a lot of the students are from migrant and refugee families.

“The students enjoyed making vegetable cakes. Though they found the tastes to be bit bland. I found out from other teachers that the best combo was either savoury or sweet. The kids sort of went off on their own ideas and asked to make hummus using one of the cans. Which we did. They all loved the hummus on bread.”

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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 think about all the veges I could hide in my smoothies now" "Beetroot is actually yum"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Finding different ways of hiding the veges in the cakes. Because they had to work together and be persistent in the trials.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Mostly a mind shift on how veges can be tasty and to just give them a go even if it isn't inside of a cake

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It lead to lots of korero about our healthy school lunches and how we could create our own healthy lunch one day or recipe books for their whanau

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Encourage healthy eating where possible. Take home the fruit in schools to help their whanau

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

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Recipe books, whanau in class helping, hold whanau workshops

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Poverty, lack of knowledge around healthy kai/portion sizes

“My tamariki really enjoyed their vegetable cake learning experiences. I especially love how it integrated into so many areas of the curriculum. I probably didn't give my self enough time to do it justice with reports and conferences etc. But hei aha. These are the things that kids remember from school. Thank you School Kit!”

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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 enjoyed the outcome. Yummy.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? simple tasks

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Memories of an enjoyable day that had a food outcome

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Potatoes can be yummy

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? A recipe to share with family

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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? Leads to senior school technology

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Parent purchasing power

“This experience allowed the students the opportunity to apply knowledge to a practical experience.”

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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 Students were hilarious trying chickpeas for the first time! Student's minds were pretty blown about how much sugar is in regular food items, and were interested to learn about alternatives to sugar in their own lives.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The teacher resources are extensive, which is much appreciated as all the hard work and background knowledge is prepared.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? I think it has opened their minds to sugar content in everyday items. It also just highlighed how fun it is to cook food.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very effective. It had students questioning their own lunchboxes.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Students' can feed back to their families about what everyday food items have high sugar content and what can be replacements for them.

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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? Students can take their knowledge back to whānau and be ambassadors in their own families.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Taste. They just love sweet treats, and are so used to them already by the time they are in school.

“Room 22 had lots of fun being scientists in the kitchen. We had mixed results which made for great teaching points and reflection, and we enjoyed the tasty ones. Students are asking to keep this going, so we might have to have a few more attempts. Thanks for this amazing educational and fun kit!”

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them #1 - I really liked trying out the recipes, I felt like a taste tester. #2 - I felt like someone on masterchef trying to make yummy food with different ingredients.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Everything, it was great to have some basic baking supplies as we often tend to spend a lot of our own money on the classroom.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The knowledge about the impact of different foods and that there are no good or bad foods, just food and that we can eat in moderation.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? We had students who had no idea the difference between a fruit and a vegetable so they would come to school and tell us what was in their fridges and how many of each they had. It became a competiton.

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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? We considered making a baking alternatives cookbook but unfortunately we ran out of time. We think this would have been helpful for parents to see that it can be achieved.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Time poor parents, lack of $$, dietary restrictions and food aversions

“Our class really enjoyed this experience. It was great for them to understand what goes into their food and the different roles ingredients have in baking.”

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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 J "I haven't really done any baking before, I didn't like the beetroot one. I would try the apple slices cake again" M "Measuring the ingredients was cook - I like the tase testing and rating all the different cakes"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The makeup of the ingredients and showing the weight of each part that it takes to make a cake.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They are extremely engaged in baking & science now. They have asked if we can do the same thing with other foods i.e. donuts & cookies.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? The students didn't love the beetroot cake or chickpea one so while they recognise they can make substitutes, I don't think there will be any grand changes any time soon!

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? A lot have them have asked to have apple slices at home as a snack. They are more involved in at home food prep and making their own lunches.

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

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? I would love to do a parent evening sharing our investigations and seeing what it could do to change the way we think about baking/treat food and see if there's a possibility that we could change out from packet food to prepared food

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of living, time to prep, independence level of students.

“Our class really enjoyed this unit. It was our first proper go at baking - we integrated it with a volume unit in maths and had at look at the chemistry of a cake! We have just built a brand new kitchen at school and we were the first class to get to use the space.”

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