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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 didn't think that you could include vegetables in cake. It tasted better than I expected." "I want to try more recipes like this at home."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? I am sure that students will now have a clear memory of baking using ingredients that they might not normally consider.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? There is always a healthier option to consider when it comes to the food they consume.

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? Some students were keen to trial the recipes at home and I feel as if they will keep looking for healthier alternatives

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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? Children have some tools to go home and question certain food options.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost. Education of parents

“What a great kit! Easy to follow and clear links to Healthy Active Living. Students were engaged and some minds may be changed with respect to cooking "sweet things" and vegetables!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them 'I didn't think you could use veges in baking but you couldn't taste them at all!' 'Do you think this is what mum does when she bakes at home?' 'I think veges add a better texture to the baking'.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Canned foods - that canned food can be as healthy and useful as 'real' vegetables

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Experimentation - sometimes things work and taste better than others

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Great conversations around 5+ a day and what that might look like

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Simple recipes, canned fruit and veges can be used to add health benefits and taste nice

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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 had students bring in 'vegetable and fruit' based baking for shared kai

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Easier for ākonga to make their lunch with packaged food, cost of fresh food at the moment

“This was the best school kit to launch! The vegetables really added impact when I introduced the kit to the class and asked what they thought it was about! Heaps of learning and discussion and lots of awesome combinations to then adapt and try themselves.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them Angela: When you use vegetables it can make food taste good as an ingredient, not just yuck. Sam: I learned to work in a team. I learnt that I can bake things muself not just buy them from countdown, baking it myself is better. Tim: it was an example of an experiment and I like experiments Damon: I was nervous about what they might taste like using less vegetables and reducing sugar

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe, the poster to display, the inclusion of the ingredients and the gift card. Although it didn't entirely cover the cost of eggs, it was nice to get something.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Using vegetables is way to reduce sugar. Using beetroot and kūmara changed the colour the of the cupcakes. We had lots of fun measuring and making our own recipe. Kūmara can be used for cooking in sweet things not just savoury. It was a fun science project.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? We were able to use less sugar in a recipe by including vegetables. Using less sugar you can still make tasty food.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Shared their learning that they were making cupcakes with less sugar, and that food with less sugar works. Excited to share learning at home, that they were making 'cupcakes with Kūmara'. Vegetables can be put into sweet things.

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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? vouchers to parents?

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Busy parents who don't have time to cook.

“This was a great experience for our class. We had been working on Kūmara for our inquiry learning so it was a fun way to add cross-curricular learning with both maths and science. Awesome to do something hands-on and a bit different. I really appreciated the resources and feedback from other teachers when I planned this work. Making the recipe myself in advance was quite helpful as it helped me to understand the amounts. Additionally, it gave the learners an opportunity to collaborate in different ways.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them DF - I think that they were easy lessons to follow and they helped with learning substitutes for lots of foods at home. BA - It was fun and I enjoyed making the cakes. I learned that you can replace eggs with something like a fruit and I didn't know that you could make gluten free cakes.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe reviews and planning sheets,

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That we can use foods other than sugar to add flavour to baking.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? A great starting point - very effective.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? To reduce sugar when baking.

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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? Tuakana teina - students teaching their families the recipes they created.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of living - chip packets etc are a cheap and easy alternative for busy parents.

“The students found this a great learning experience. They were inspired to try options that had a range of vegetables and all agreed that their cupcakes tasted delicious. We also made them gluten and dairy-free to cater for class needs - this didn't have and adverse effects on the recipes. Mathematically, substituting the ingredients wasn't much of a challenge. The bigger challenge was in the scientific aspects of the kit - especially with creating bubble strategies and looking for ingredients that would promote rising. I will happily use this kit again!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them We loved getting to bake it was lots of fun. I enjoyed learning how to use the scales to measure each ingredient carefully.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Challenging kids mindsets about substituting certain ingredients for healthier things and exploring perfecting the recipe

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Challenging their thinking behind what they can use in the kitchen, more confident in using the scales to measure

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was great to reinforce our previous healthy foods focus and we talked about the food groups

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Making healthier choices and provide an opportunity for children to try it at home with whānau

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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? Provide a resource for home

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

“It is a great kit to get kids thinking about recipes, science and maths all in one! Problem solving and tinkering plus building skills of working together in a group to whip up a masterpiece. Exploration and lots of fun!”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I really understand ratios now". "It really made me think about the sugar I eat". "I didn't know drinks contained that much sugar." "Our sugarless cake was really yummy!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The recipe card that showed the breakdown of ingredients and purpose for students to complete.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Healthy choices for eating and some great real life maths learning.

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Making healthy choices and baking as a family can be fun.

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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 sharing the healthy eating learning they gained with their families and trying our recipes at home.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of food at the moment, especially fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables.

“We loved this school kit. We got so much learning out of it - Maths (measurement, ratio, etc) and Science (changing state). The students were able to predict, experiment and then refine and although most first cakes failed, their final cakes were yummy, which really showed their evaluation skills and reworking. Every child designed and made a recipe card at the end to keep, and we made a class online cookbook using Google Slides. Also, looking at how much sugar is in food was very powerful.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them It was good to see different things in a cake. The Cake was nice

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The Beetroot as many students had not used it before

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Different foods that can go into different foods

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was ok but could have done with more promotional equipment

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? they can show different foods into cake. Having said that recipe cards would have been good. I created some to take home

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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? Different recipe cards that students could take home, Recipe`s students could write about

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

“The cake mix was easy to make and the students enjoyed making it”

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Posted 2 years ago

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Please provide 2+ examples of student voice on the kit's impact on them "I was inspired and even had a go at making the cake at home" -Dawn "It was a good practical experience to learn the steps involved with baking- now I feel more confident baking at home" - Olivia

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Baking

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? "I was inspired and even had a go at making the cake at home" - Dawn

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Yes- it made us think about bakeries and cake shops and if they use healthy alternatives in their cakes etc

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? "We even went home and told our whānau that we used chickpeas in a cake- who knew!"

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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? Invite whānau into class to support lessons or advertise recipes in panui!

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? "As long if you have the ingredients"

“The Vegecake Kit sparked though about healthy eating and the tamariki enjoyed baking to develop measuring skills etc”

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Posted 2 years ago