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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 It was fun to experiment with different vegetables. I liked eating the cake.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The ratios for what makes a good cake.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Rich learning in multiple learning areas.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was pretty good. Some of my kids were a bit sceptical of the veges in the cake.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Having more fruit and veges in their diets and making up recipes from scratch

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

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? Kids take the knowledge they have learnt home with them.

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

“My class had so much fun last year with the vegetable cake kit! We incorporated maths, science, and english into our learning as well as food technology. It was great to have such high levels of engagement from the kids in my 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 " I have never tasted these before and they are yuk on their own but ok in a cake." "I loved experimenting and can not believe cakes still work.

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

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? How you can change a simple recipe to include healthier ingredients.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? We are a fruit in schools school and a healthy lunch school so this kit married up well.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Discussions with their whanau.

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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? It is not all about sugar!!!

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

“This kit is a hit with the children and we end up with lots of oohs and aahs. It encourages the children to fair test and be creative with flavours. We love the ingredients you supplied but it was also great for the children to brainstorm and come up with their ideas. They also spoke with their whanau to gather their thoughts on what they could use. It encouraged teamwork, communication and collaboration.”

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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 the little chemical experiments we got to do at home and school. The baking was fun, I didn't think we could use vegetables to replace some of the ingredients we use for baking at home.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Chemical reactions Experiments - This helped my students to understand how chemical reactions work.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Making cake with weird ingredients.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was great, we understood exactly that the substitute is the healthier option and it can make eating cake more enjoyable without feeling too guilty.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Teaching their whanau, that they can use other ingredients that always sit in the cupboard to make cakes.

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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? This activity can be used at home as a way to promote healthy eating. A little competition can be made to see what other recipes the family could come up with using these substitute.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Parents tired from work and eating whatever food is provided by them. Sometimes it's too late especially with students having sports or other school curricular activities after school.

“I enjoyed using the school kit in making our vegetable cake. The lesson plan provided in this pack helped my students to understand chemical reactions. Those little activities solidified their theories before and after their baking. This unit linked in so well with our term inquiry and although it was chaotic in the kitchen all the mistakes that went with prepping the cake were teaching moments for us. So when it came to the second round of baking, the students were more prepared.”

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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 "When can we do this again?" was a common refrain.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The instructions were very clearly set out but offered scope for my own 'twist' on the learning outcome.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Cooking at school? The children will remember this for a while.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? While I didn't make this my focus, we had a number of learning conversations about how easy it is to 'veggie-fy' some common food items we all like- like cakes, muffins and pizza. For a few weeks afterwards some children share that their snake had X veggie added to 'make it more healthy' so i guess the message did get through.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Easy ideas about how to veggie-fy popular food snacks

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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? Easy ideas about how to veggie-fy popular food snacks

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? In our community, minimal barriers. We are lucky.

“I used this kit with my class primarily as a 'hands on' front load lesson exploring fractions. While the children were excited to be making food, I noticed many of them watching their peers who were measuring 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8ths, and helping out when (or when not!) needed. I was pleased that this kit held the children's attention and offered practical opportunities to see that, when we break a whole apart, what's left are still fractions of the whole.”

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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 Interesting how much maths is involved in baking. I really enjoyed getting to do the baking, I didn't realise so much learning was going to be involved.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Can't remember sorry.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They took a lot from this kit. They have kept talking about how mixing ingredients changed the flavour of the cake and how much learning was involved in the whole process.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was ok but I think this point was kind of lost as our learners focused more on the maths and mixing ingredients side of things.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? How you can change up a recipe from sugar to fruits and vegetables to provide the sweet flavour.

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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? We talked a lot about how they can changed up the baking that their parents do at home to make it more healthy through what they learnt while suing the kit.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost and their parents not wanting to

“The kit was great. Our students loved getting involved with the maths and baking. It required them to think about what was in their cake for taste and to support the texture.”

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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 was really surprised that you couldn't taste the beetroot in the cake". I didn't know you could put veggies in cake, except for carrot cake".

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Having most of the resources included, it makes life easier if you don't have to go looking for stuff.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Hopefully being more open to trying veggies and being more creative with their baking.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Very. Last years class had already had a good grounding in healthy choices, this consolidated it for them.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Very effective. They liked the link between healthy not meaning less taste.

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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 always share the recipes we undertake in class, and we let whānau know about what's going on in class so it can spark discussions.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? For a lot of families it's about being time poor. Another reason we encourage students to take on these challenges so that they can help.

“Another great resource, it was wonderful for the children to see how they can make healthy choices and still have treats. This tied in nicely with a project they undertook last year to encourage more fruit and vegetable consumption.”

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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 Ooh, I love baking. This was such fun, I am going to do this with the veggies I have growing at home. I felt really important going to the supermarket and using the card to get what we needed. i felt like an adult.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Real world activity

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? What else can we put in a cake?

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? What can they use????

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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? When it becomes embedded in the ākonga. Using resources from our own kitchen is so valuable.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Taste, texture, trying something new.

“What a fun, practical and real world learning package this was. Having two ākonga unpack, organise, order the ingredients was such a wonder to see as they really thought hard of the structure, timings and the organisation. Teh tip to make sure the veggies were really cut finely was a pearler! Thanks again.”

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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 Actually tasted nice! I liked the trial and error.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Learning about chemical reactions, substitutions for sugar.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Yummy food can be healthy!

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? That you can cooked with different alternatives.

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

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? Students sharing their learning at home. Cooking at home.

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

“Awesome kit for promoting healthy eating using different alternatives. Also worked perfectly with my maths unit on Measurment!”

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