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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 I loved making the cakes, most tasted yummy - Gemma I enjoyed making the cakes, but some of my cakes failed.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Physically making the cakes - showed the children how different ingredients effected the baking

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How we can make healthier choices

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Great, we tied this in with Food for thought so we learnt how to read labels too

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? How to make healthier choices.

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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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What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of living prices for groceries/

“Loved making these cakes!”

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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 working out the different amounts of stuff we needed to make the cupcakes. I liked baking with my teacher and my friends.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The weighing machine and learning about measuring ingredients out and learning how different foods can be used to make tasty kai.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Wanting to experiment more. They are inspired to cook other things. We got our own little oven for our classroom to do extra cooking.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Learning about new foods, and how they tasted before and after cooking them.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Showing their whānau that you can make yummy kai out of almost anything and it doesn't have to cost heaps.

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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? sharing what they learned at home and making the cupcakes for their own whanau.

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

“This has been a fun activity for my students. They have enjoyed being able to experiment and learn about various ways to make a cake without loads of sugar.”

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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 THIS IS FUN. I REALLY ENJOYED THE BAKING

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The apple, because it was something the students were familiar and they had ready access to

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That you can bake using healthy alternatives

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? As I was only working with a small group it was very effective.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? That you can bake using healthy alternatives

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 30%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Knowledge taken back into the home

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost and knowledge

“Students loved this interactive activity. It brought about lots of discussion around healthy alternatives and the science of baking. I used this kit as an LSC with a junior class and highly recommend it.”

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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 Loved the baking component and freedom to change the recipe.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The scientific components at the start.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The fun they had in trial and error.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? They definitely learnt how to adapt recipes.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? How to make small adjustments to a recipe to improve the health benefits.

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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? Children were all excited to take their learning home to cook at home

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

“Really engaging introduction into the scientific concepts. Well organised and detailed planning and resources.”

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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 fun seeing how the cake changed. I liked getting to cook my own food.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? electric scales - could be used for so many other things in the classroom outside this kit. the review sheets also helped kids arrange their thinking really well.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? On it's own, just excitement and some awareness of sugar, fat etc. Combined with other classroom learning, it was quite powerful for some.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Pretty good in the short term. Lots of conversations happening around morning tea and lunch. However this did start to wear off in the long term.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Just having the confidence to make things at home and experiment a little with the recipes.

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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? It was good to build their confidence in making things themselves. I heard from some whānau who said their kids had come home and tried something similar at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? cost, whānau knowledge, exposure to what they can eat/buy

“The kids were really pumped about this and keen to get amongst. It tied in really well with our sessions with the Heart Foundation around healthy eating and looking into what is actually in food. It was a lot of heavier thinking for my class which went over the heads of some of them - but they loved getting back into the kitchen.”

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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 that vegetables could make things taste like this." "I'm going to see what vegetables I can find at home and try this with my brother."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The printouts where all children got a copy. It was easy for all to follow and saved me time as a teacher.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Hopefully the benefits of vegetables and how easy they are to use!

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? The health benefits of vegetables and how you can easily make adaptations to recipes.

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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? Promotion of vegetables and healthy alternatives

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

“This was a fantastic, hugely engaging kit. The children loved experimenting with different vegetable combinations to create sakes. From a teacher's point of view, the resources were great, easy to follow and to implement in the classroom.”

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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, look what happens to the egg when I mix it" - totally blew me away as they had never experienced it before!! "Im going to make a cake with my Mum this weekend, she got one of those packets from New World"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Using cupcakes containers, rather than one large one as many different options were made available.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? The love of experiemtning with different foods in cooking. Our next one is vegetable stir fry.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? I think it has made an impact on the tamariki as they were in control of their cooking experience.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? That you can cook with food at home and not buy takeaways as much - one of their comments.

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What percentage of your students were familiar with tinned veges/fruit from use at home? 30%

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How can the learning in the kit go beyond the classroom to improve whānau wellbeing? Reducing takeaway consumption - tamariki keen to experiemtn with cooking at home (if they are allowed)

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of food - having the funds to purchase product from the supermarket - we are now growing more veges at school with this class to see how that helps.

“Tamariki loved experimenting with the various methods they could mix and cook the ingredients. They and I were too busy to take photos which is a real shame - probably the biggest "down" over the whole challenge.”

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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 Apple made the cake nice and I want to make them at home with mum. I'm going to have healthy cakes now because I can take out the sugar.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe review cards because they focused the students in on the aspects of the cakes.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That 40g of baking powder and 20g of baking soda won't make big yummy cakes. It will make a big reaction and then fall and taste gross.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Average. They know and understand when talking about it but it didn't have an impact on what they are eating.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? That they don't need all of the sugar in baking.

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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? Students could take home examples and share their learning with their parents.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? The easiness of packets of food for in lunch boxes.

“This was an engaging activity the students enjoyed.”

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Posted 1 year ago