What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Inspiring, provocative, community

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We mainly looked at local, but touched on other countries and food insecurity there. We did look at the environmental cost of throwing food away into landfill, and the idea of 'embodied energy, great to link the social sciences to hard science

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? The chidlren came up with lots of solutions, jams, smoothies etc

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Coomunity based inititaives such as Fair Food, Avondale Kai, Kiwi Harvest and Fair food

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Not yet, but will. We are putting together a student led environmental group this year

“I worked with my colleague in year 8 - this was a great resource to get our students thinking about food waste. We looked at all the initiatives in our area like Kai Avondale, Kiwi Harvest and Fair Food, with the seem being food insecurity. We lvoed the soup and preserving ideas - we showcased this at our Learning Expo.”

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Posted 2 hours ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Creative, local, connected

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? We didn't really go into the global aspect

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? We made soup. The kids brought in all the vegetables that were going to end up in the bin and made large pots of soup for our Learning expo

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Local food initiaves sich as Fair Food, Avondale Kai, Kiwi Harvest

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Not yet - but planning this term to try and contunue to talk and learn about it

“The Kit was pretty good, I liked all preservative aspect and finding out about local food heroes - the kids learnt a lot about Food waste iniitiateves in the area. They also learnt about Te Hono - linking it to healthy communities. The walk and poem wasn't really feesible in Avondale so we didn't do that part.”

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Posted 22 hours ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Informative, engaging, localised learning

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? It linked in well with some of our non-fiction reading and how we need to be the kaitiaki of the land.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Bringing Stu's pigs back (a famous sight on the 309 Rd in Coromandel, where there were 100s of pigs running free) and feed them up to sell and use the money to get more pigs.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? where the soft plastic recycling bin is

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? yes, at lunch they are being a lot more mindful with their food waste and ensuring we all dispose of waste appropriately.

“Students were really engaged. They especially loved the map and stickers, talking about out community, the food on offer and where it comes from and where is goes. It pushed us to think about waste and what we do with it.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? easy, inspiring, handy

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Great as it helps us better understand the content whole exploring the ingredients.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? reuse and recycle

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? the way of using ingredients

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Yes, lots of cooking activities to extend students knowledge in both using the language and the ingredients

“Oure ESOL students across the school really enjoyed the variety of resources for food te chnology. We had fun exploring the knwoledge and leanring about the vocab in real life situation. Thanks so much for supplying such great resources! Regards Helen”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? interactive, creative, empowerment

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Many found it surprising on what others do, as said many of my students were already capable.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? there was a suggestion on creating baby food to give to the food bank. Also some wanted to dehydrate like food that goes to the International Space Station!

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? How many community gardens we have around here

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? no

“This was a great experience for my science extension kids to see how everyday "old skill" home activities are connected to science. Many kids knew not to waste food, but many had no idea what to do with extra items. From a semi-rural area, they had many skills and many management plans already set in place. However, the pickling activity was their most favourite part as it was new to them, or they made connections with kai they had eaten at their grandparents' homes.”

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Posted 1 week ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Thought provoking with lots of discussions

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? I think a lot of my students initial felt this was an urban big city issue and through this kit realised there were things they could be doing to make a difference

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Scientically creating energy/power from decomposion

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Vegetable gardens at Men's Shed - village walk

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Unfortunately not yet

“I really loved this kit - my class took a lot of learning away especially around food waste and food donation options which I think was great. We are a rural community lots of vegetable gardens and compost heaps”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? practical interactive fun

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? Waste not so much understood as recognising farming and processes in food collection.

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? We didn't get to this part in 2025 and plan to continue the activities in our next term topic of belonging and community environment.

Did the resource encourage new ways of thinking and talking about the value food?

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? Location of sorting houses, fields of different foods and how many families had connections through work

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Not as yet

“Fun and interesting experiements which worked particularly well as we work and live in a horticultural community.”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

What are three words that describe the activities in this kit? Good Food Awareness

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How did the resource inform students’ understanding of food waste as a global vs local issue? That was a bit about my ORS students understanding

What were the most creative food waste solution suggestions? Plan our meals and only buy what we need,

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What did your students find in your community that they hadn’t noticed before and what sparked that discovery? That we have a community garden where we could help.

Has this kit prompted any new food related initiatives within your school? Trying new veges by our students.

“We modified this resource to suit our ORs students. It was a great way to get out in the community and see what was there. It motivated us to create our own good food gardens and plan healty food to create from there. We have also gone back to composting and monitoring how much food waste we have”

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Posted 2 weeks ago

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