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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 really liked baking in class, especially the eating part after it." "My favourite part was mixing in all the different vegetables, I thought it would be yuck but it was actually ok."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? My students were very excited about filling out the science cards. They thought the kit was presented beautifully and made them excited to fill it in - some even felt they needed to redo their work neater to suit the cards. Nice to see them taking pride in their learning reflections.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? For some it was the first time they had done baking ever! Some of My students have continued with the baking and experienmenting, often bringing new creations for me to try.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Our students are pretty healthy anyway but I feel like it opened their eyes to alternatives.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? As above, some of the students have continued experimenting at home. Some families commented on being able to spend more quality time together.

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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? Change starts with the children - they are now able to suggest healthier alternatives and as older students they were able to recreate the foods we made and share them with their whanau.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of living. Busy lives of parents - no time to experiment - stick with the usual and takeaways when constrained with time.

“My students really loved this kit and we experiemented with a range of vegetables. It really invigorated their creativity and they were excited to trial new combinations.”

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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 adding the ingredients and seeing what happened' and 'I made my own with mum in the weekend'

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

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They have gone on to make some of their own healthy snacks and brought them to school

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It was a great addition to our planned healthy diet and keeping safe topic

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? health living is important and needs to start at home

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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? Some of the students passed on their learning to their families but hard to say as veg/fruits are so much more expensive than unhealthy options.

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

“The students loved the hands on experience. We did in small groups which worked really with with cooperating and sharing the resourcers. I would love to do this again with my class this year or next year. I think the students have not had much experience with cooking at home so this definetly helped. Some then have shared photos of what they have gone on to make with their parents.”

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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 loved researching to find out what you could substitute instead of using sugar, or fruit that had a lot of sugar in." "The plain cupcakes tasted alright which I didn't think they would. I enjoyed working in my group to decide what we should make fruit or vegetable cupcakes."

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The Chemistry of Cake sheets for substituting and helping the students work out ratios.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? That you can change unhealthy recipes and make them healthier with substituting.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? Great, as students went home and carried on their own substitutes for lunches.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Teach their family to look at alternatives as well as how much sugar is in what they are eating.

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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 take home what they have learnt and ask parents to help create / adapt new recipes.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Parent buying choices.

“This was a fantastic kit! The learning experiences were engaging and the students were highly engaged and excited for each lesson. They loved researching alternatives to sugar or fruit right through to the actual substituting and 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 Sorry I have missed this

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? All the ingredients and not paying myself

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Year 8 pass on knowledge to Y 7

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? We talk about grating vegetables into everything and as a metaphor for our learning

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Vegetables can be added to all meals

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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? Working with Food Banks

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

“Such fun convincing the kids a cake with vegetables in it can be DELICIOUS !!”

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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 That it is important to follow the actual recipe and not add extra. We need to measure out all ingredients before starting to mix it all together.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The whole kit as it ended up with a real life experience and easy for students to assess their progress throughout using the kit.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They still enjoyed eating them and most students chose this to write about under their student voice on (HERO) Celebrating Success

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

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? How to use vegetables in a different context. How to make a sweet treat more healthier.

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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? Students have more of an input into what goes into their lunch boxes. Hopefully also encouraged them to want to start their own vegie gardens.

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

“The students were really interested in how vegetables can go into cakess and muffins. As the teacher I was surprized at how many of my students had not tasted Beetroot. The students really enjoyed and buzzed out on the actual making of them. They got to learn value information around doing a group relflection on how they went.”

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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 tried our group's recipe at home and my family liked the cakes. I didn't think chickpeas tasted ok but they did!

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? The poster about chemical reactions was useful and lead to discussions about the different roles played by each ingredient.

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Understanding that science is everywhere and developing an understanding of chemical reactions. Also thinking that fat and sugar can be replaced by healthier ingredients.

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It started some thinking about healthier cakes, but I'm not sure how lasting that'll be.

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Replacing fat and sugar with healthier ingredients. Looking at how much sugar their snacks contain.

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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? Thinking about how much sugar everyday ingredients contain and looking for healthier alternatives.

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? Cost of living, willingness to try other flavours

“This kit was a great opportunity to teach chemical reactions and for students to realise that science happens in their kitchen too, not just in a lab! A lot of students were dubious about adding vegetables in their cakes and most stuck at first to the more familiar taste of apples, but became more adventurous with their second attempt and some tested things for the first time. Some cakes worked well and others failed, so we had some great discussions about trial and error, just like scientists do. A fun kit to finish the 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 We loved making muffins.

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Voucher: allowed me to add a financial literacy component

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? They can bake

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It prompted great class discussions

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Unfortunately healthy food comes at a cost and our families don’t have the money

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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? Price is always a factor

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

“My students loved making this. They enjoyed baking and shopping for different ingredients”

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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 loved trying different things in my cake!", "trying new things was interesting, but good!"

Which kit components were the most impactful and why? Trying to find ways to minimise the sugar intake

What is the legacy this kit will leave behind on your learners? Keep trying new things until you find a way that works for you!

How effective was this kit in promoting healthy food in your classroom? It enable my learners to try new things not resort to packaged food

What learning from this kit can students take home to impact their family's wellness and health? Same as above, not to use as much processed / packaged food at home

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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? More unprocessed foods tends to bring up student engagement and energy levels

What barriers do your students face to access healthy eating? For us isolation. We live 40+ to the nearest town

“My ākonga loved exploring and trying new things, though they didn't always work or taste great as they had thought it might”

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