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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 Olive-I loved the cakes as they were soft and bubbly. I hated the apple as I don't like it cook. I liked learning that you can change the amount of sugar in a cake. Kobe- Baking is fun. I liked baking. We got to mix the ingredients and see how it rose. I hated the chickpeas.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The chickpeas were an interesting choice and got them thinking! The bubbles and doing several batches of cakes allowed them to see science in baking.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They have talked about cooking since and when they go to enviro club they have continued to talk about the components of baking

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It got them thinking about what vegetables they liked and didn't like. We also added in extra vegetables from the school garden which the students picked and collected.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Why vegetables are important and how they can still taste yummy.

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

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? they can go home and talk about it. They also shared some cupcakes with their family

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost, lack of being able to influence family diet (no control over what mum, dad etc buy)

“Fantastic kit that got the students excited about the science behind baking. They enjoyed the 'bubble concepts' though several found the idea of different vegetables in their cake difficult so we adapted the vegetables.”

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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 like baking, I do it more at home with my mum.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The instructions were clear, and the little cards

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Love of baking!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? This sparked a bake off in our class, students used it to then design their own bakery menu.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Kids are talking more about healthy food choices

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 40%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Not sure

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Finances, it’s expensive! Also I think a lot of parents don’t know what to put in lunch box

“My students loved making their cakes and enjoyed the 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 The kids were very excited, sadly I left the school before we could make it.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Pick different combinations chart.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Cakes can be just as delicious made with veggies.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Initial conversations were promising.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Make your own healthy treats.

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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? Encourage kids to bake healthy food at home

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost, high poverty area, location, nearest shop 30 mins away 0

“I moved schools and left the kit behind, sadly I didn't get to use it with the kids.”

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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 learnt how to hide vegetables in baking so my younger brother would eat it. I learnt that you can make good baking with healthy food and less sugar.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The variety of vegetables and fruit that were specified that could be swapped out to provide the moisture and taste in baked goods.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Eating healthier isn't too hard and you don't have to deprive yourself and fruit and veg are quite nice.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very. See above comment

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? As above. Hopefully encouraging whānau to make better choices.

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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? As above re making better choices at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Ease, busy lives outside of school, working parents

“What a fantastic kit to engage students with science, food tech, maths and essential life skills. I found that there needed to be a lot of scaffolding to help children with skills we take for granted like using measuring spoons, scales and cups. They were really engaged and mixing up the children so there were varying abilities in each group actually was really successful so they could discuss and learn from each other - the ones who weren't great with straight maths did well with the practical side of cooking etc. Overall, it's been one of my favourite kits and was awesome to use at the end of the year when it is hard to keep children as engaged as earlier on in the school year.”

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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 think I would like corn in cakes but it was yummy! I'm going to ask my mum if I can do some cooking.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The explanation poster as it was easy to understand.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That healthy eating can be yummy!

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? Most children didn't think you could make yummy food with vegetables.

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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? Children took photos and shared them with their whanau.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Either cost of lack of knowledge from parents.

“Our students were excited to experiment with food! The kit was easy to follow and extremely engaging for our learners. They could explain their findings with their peers and adults. Many children tried food that they were sure they didn't like.”

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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 Not recorded - sorry

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All were helpful and different students used them in different ways

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Has inspired them to pursue this as part of a passion project

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It helped somewhat

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Cooking using substitutes

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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 can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Our ākonga have been trying different recipes at home

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? None really , they are well supported in this aspect at home

“Our ākonga loved exploring how they could use the ingredients. Lots of trial and error involved. Has inspired some to pursue this as a theme for a passion project”

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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 Wow! I didn't know that veges can be a cake - Yr 4 boy. I never liked beetroot before but now it's yum!! girl year 5 It's nice until you know its got veges in it and its not a real cake - boy year 4

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? beetroot was a new experience for many of our tamariki and chickpeas was very much a new experience for all of our children

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How things are not always as it seems. They were amazed to try the cake and then find out the ingrediants. It was really hard for the bakers to stay quiet. A real test

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? We need to do it again and continue the journey of working out what is good and what we need to think about more. We need to develop the curiosity that has been begun with this kit.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Just the sharing of the experience and the recipes. The tamariki found it hard to convince our parents to give it a go at home. For many the ingrediants are not readily available.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 20%

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? We did follow up writing and inquiry which was shared with whanau

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? cost of vegetables and awareness of what can be done.

“The look on the faces of tamariki when they worked out what was in their delicious cakes. Making a vegetable cake created a lot of doubt, discussion, wonder, and then amazement. Once they worked through those emotions there was adventure and willingness to try other ideas.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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 The children were able to talk about different ways to sweeten baking. They were also able to talk about how to make a cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The hands on aspect of the kit.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Thinking about what they are putting in their body.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was a bit effective. It is hard to change habits when it is only promoted in the classroom and not outside of school.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Discussion around healthier eating.

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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 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? It can begin discussions around healthy habits with whānau.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? The cost of living

“This was a fun and exciting kit. It was a bit messy but the kids had a blast.”

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Posted 1 year ago