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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Research on healthy eating and the food pyramid

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Children keen to grow veges at school in a school vege patch

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Children were all chatting about how they were going to eat the plants. Many were keen to, even if they had never eaten these plants before.

“A fabulous resource that completely engaged my class.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Easily works with science and health parts of the curriculum. Can link to art and writing too, then reading. Good for oral language and physical co-ordination too.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? School garden! Cooking and eating, healthy lunches, parent education and involvement possible too.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Promoted new things to try and ways to eat things if led by the teacher.

“It takes while to see ";results"; eg the growing. Great for younger children but the wait is hard. Teaches a lot about how to grow plants and the requirements for plants to grow (works in well with curriculum goals). Good hands-on activity for a class when you have lots of plants. Children are keen to try the plants and eat new things. Promotes lots of new language.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We have done some procedural writing about how to plant a plant and what food comes from plants. Our Inquiry has been also integrated with our concept of where does food come from.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? The plants will continue to grow and then we can taste the produce. Looking at how to look after our plants now they have grown.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We have talked about and looked at different vegetables that we have growing.

“Great interactive kit that all the children could get involved in.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Fitted well with inquiry topic of 'Field to Table'. Good art using veges and herbs as subjects for sketching. Good language around identifying the various veges and herbs.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Maths -measurement and graphing. Art - still life pictures Writing - writing adventures involving the LGL characters

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? It has made vegetables and herbs more interesting and appealing to the children.

“Children have been very engaged with the resources in the kit and it has inspired good conversation and language.”

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Great links to literacy follow up s through reading and writing around this topic.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Garden to table - new to school

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Students tried new vegetables and changed habits in lunch boxes. More carrots and cucumber in evidence.

“Fantastic resource, my class loved the secret messages and getting to belong to the LGL. This worked in so well with our unit on Plants Life Cycle. thank you so much for all your hard work in creating this wonderful resource.”

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Posted 4 years ago

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Religious Education Health

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will look more at healthy eating next term

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? Got them a little bit interested.. More resources around healthy eating to share with children would have been helpful.

“Overall this was a great resource for us. At our school we had just started our 'God' strand and have been learning about God's creation and how we can look after God's creation. So this was exactly us doing that!”

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How effective was this kit in promoting healthy eating in your classroom?

In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? We were actually doing an inquiry on food processes so it has been excellent hand-in-hand with our farm unit to go the next step and look at how food is growing from seeds then through production to supermarkets and then to home.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We have discussed as a syndicate about making this a yearly unit as it is extremely hands on and relevant particularly to encourage healthy eating for our young ones.

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? As we have looked at the various plants growing we have talked about what they actually are and what we can use them for. We have looked at recipes and made sandwiches with some fully grown vegetables that came from the supermarket.

“This is been an absolutely fabulous learning opportunity for our children! It has stimulated incredible conversations and the pleasure of seeing something grow to the point where we are able to eat it!. There has been wonder and high interest motivation every single day coming in to see what has happened with the plants. It is also stimulated parents to buy other plants and they have started growing their own at home. Absolutely brilliant thank you so much for this!”

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Posted 4 years ago

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In what ways did this kit give opportunity for cross-curricular learning? Talking about good/ bad secrets. ICT and writing creating chatterpix stories

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Planting into a school garden, looking away edible flowers And herbs to grow. More use of publishing writing using chatterpix after using it for taking vegetables for our stories

In what ways has this kit improved students awareness of nutrition and healthy eating? We have fruit break at school, a lot of children are bringing vegetables and talking any how healthy veges are

“My class have loved this kit! To start with having a special secret gave them all so much excitement but also was a great little teaching experience on secrets, good secrets etc... the children enjoyed the process of planting and seeing some rapid results of plants growing. At first we joined with another class to solve our first clues but second time the children either worked independently or with teacher to solve, they really impressed me with how easy they found the code cracker to solve, just loved it, even brand new to school children were able to complete it. Having a garden and talking about vegetables has been so much fun and children have been very engaged.”

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