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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Maths, Reading and Writing!

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Garden to table!

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? New vegetable vocab, the process of a plant, trying new foods, comparing and contrasting foods

“Love love love! I loved how it linked well with our inquiry topic! We planted the seedlings in our school garden, and the school garden featured on country calendar! The students learnt about seedlings, and how they in turn become food for us to nourish ourselves.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Reading, writing, maths

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Linking to hauora and our pe unit

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Improved our learning and teaching around healthy eating and living. Food pyramids, and body processes.

“Loved the little garden kit - worked well with our inquiry topic/theme of kaitiakitanga. Supported our learning around the living world and its processes.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Writing, maths, art, music.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Caring for our environment. Garden to table.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Our class loved trying new vegetables and it inspired many of them to grow their own gardens at home.

“Great Kit that created lots of exciting learning opportunities. My students loved the code-cracking and the badges they were given.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We set up our classroom shop and the children learnt about taking money and giving change. Children wrote shopping lists. Bingo helped practise initial sounds.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Ongoing gardening and food preparation

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? I brought.a range of vegetables in each day and students chopped them up and we ate them as snacks with humus and other dips. This was great for getting them exposed to new foods.

“We did really maximise the use of this kit and created classroom ";fruit and vegetable shop"; and children wrote shopping lists, bought and sold the seeds, pots and potting mix with play money and then propagated the seeds. We have a convenient raised garden just outside our classroom in which the plants went and most are now thriving in. I made a lot of support materials such as photos of vegetables and we played 'I spy something beginning with...' to practise initial letter sounds. The children really enjoyed the lead in to this learning with hearing the story about our the LGL started and then being awarded the badges. The badges broke very quickly, which was a bit of a pain. We used our letterbox, but not a whole lot as most of my new entrants can't write. It was a great kit, and I did supplement the activities with many of my own.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Lots of opportunity for writing, maths measurement, taking care of a plant and inquiry learning about vegetables around the world.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Replanting in our classroom garden. Continuing to look after the plants. Unfortunately with Covid-19 we didn't extend this as much as we would have liked to. With the timing plants had to be taken home over the holidays and many didn't survive to come bac

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? As a class we learnt a lot about many different vegetable around the world and how they are cooked and eaten. This was an eye opener for them. The children were open to trying vegetables that they hadn't eaten before. Lots of inquiry into good and bad

“Thank you for once again providing an amazing, authentic learning journey. The children loved being part of the unique Little Garden League and are so cute...they still wear their badges to school. All our plants grew and the children were able to take home a healthy looking plant to take care of at home. Thank you so much we love taking part in School Kit activities.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? The project was great for oral language as the students talked about their favourite and least favourite fruit and vegetables. My class has a high number of ESOL children so it was an opportunity for them to learn new words and express their likes and

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Science: looking at change (seeds to seedling, vegetable into a dish)

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? The children learnt about vegetables that they had never seen or tried before. As they were involved in the whole process of planting and looking after the seedlings, they were more willing to try different vegetables.

“My whole class (year 1) loved the project! The children were very excited from the moment I mentioned it to them till the very end. We asked our big buddies (year 5 students) to help us with some of the activities (like secret messages) and they loved it, too!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? This linked very well into our literacy and R.E components of the term. Students were able to research and read about plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Doing this school kit increase my knowledge about what plants need. Students are now excited about growing more plants and looking after the environment.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students started to think about what veggies they are eating. Some students hadn't tried all the veggies we were growing. By growing them, it has made them more interested in trying new vegetables.

“This school kit was fantastic! the students were very engaged in learning about plants and what they need to survive. This kit linked well into our term theme about us being guardians of our environment. The students learnt about what different plants need and that different plants need different conditions to grow. It also made the kids think about how much veggies they are eating and how growing your own is so rewarding!”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We linked it to our maths programme (statistics and measurement) and Science - plants.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We actually didn’t finish all of the activities in the kit as we also had a major art exhibition (amongst other things!) happening at the same time which was unfortunately unrelated to the theme of the kit., so I would expect to have more insight into thi

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Some children had never heard of some of the vegetables included in the kit. It was a great discussion point, with encouragement from peers to try new foods.

“Absolutely loved the Little Garden League kit. My Year 1 students were so excited to be involved, and loved the secrecy of the club. The badges were a big hit, and there was great excitement after the holidays when they saw how much their plants had grown. A great experience, Thankyou!”

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