Early childhood Programme
Join OUR ‘KNOW ME EAT ME’ PRogramme with your Centre!
Our ‘Know Me Eat Me’ programme will have your tamariki cheering for broccoli, requesting healthy food at home and telling you who grew your carrot. The Te Whariki linked programme has children exploring the food we eat, where it comes from, why it is good for us and most importantly – what it tastes like. Your educators will help the children read interactive stories, carry out hands on science investigations and cook and prepare their own food. They will build their confidence around making healthy choices and test their taste buds with many new flavours!
Our programme is designed to help centres achieve their Healthy Heart Awards and implement a consistent long term focus on health and nutrition that’s relevant to New Zealand tamariki and the food we eat daily.
Takes the guesswork and hours of planning out of teaching tamariki about food, nutrition, and health
Holistic programme - covers where food comes from, why it is good for us and what it tastes like
Stories about New Zealand growers and farmers
Culturally diverse recipes that children will love
Science investigations exploring nature and sustainability
Go at their own pace and play to their strengths
All the content can be saved for future use
Includes resources for parents so their children can continue their learning at home
Professional development videos around nutrition for pre schoolers and implementing the programme at your centre
We want all kiwi kids to thrive at everything they set out to achieve in life. With the guidance of our awesome characters, children will be taken on a food adventure, reading interactive stories and completing hands on activities that show where different foods come from, how they are eaten and prepared, why they are good for us and what they taste like.
How it works
We have done all the preparation work for your educators. A couple of 30 minute sessions per month with the children is all that’s required for making this programme achievable for centres long term.
Every month of the one year programme a new set of food resources will be released; below are the foods that will be covered each month. Educators will use the resources with the children and share the learning with their families. Each of the 12 modules includes the following resources plus a professional development video.
We have visited New Zealand growers/farmers and created interactive stories about where each food comes from. Each month you will have access to the new food interactive story, science experiment, cooking recipe and support resources via the ‘Know Me Eat Me’ platform. We will also provide you with a recipe to include in your parent newsletter so parents can see what their child has been learning about and help continue the learning at home.
Food is not supplied with the programme and centres will need to source this themselves. The programme is designed around a small amount of seasonal, readily available ingredients to make it affordable for not only ECEs but also the families of the children taking part.
• 12 different foods covered
• Over 80 resources
• Delivered digitally
• Te Whariki Links supplied
• Professional Development
• Maori food names and phrases
Our next intake - 1st APRIL 2021
We have two intakes each year which are 1st of April and 1st of November. Centres are to sign up for an initial one year with the option of continuing on for an additional annual fee.
Pricing Information
We are looking for highly motivated centres.
While carrying out the activities with your centre you will create a healthy community and set the foundations for an ongoing healthy focus long term. We will be following your journey as you lead the way and provide inspiration for other centres in the future.
Full Year - Know Me Eat Me Programme Pricing
Programme starts April 2021
Payment is required before the programme commences however we can organise to split the payment into 3 instalments throughout the year for centres who need it with an additional 5% charged.
Please note that the programme will not be available at this price at any other time in 2021, so if you are committed to a healthy food programme in your centre make sure you let us know you’d like one of the early bird spots by the 19th of March 2021!
Testimonials
"Our preschool have really enjoyed doing the Know Me Eat Me programme each month. As teachers we plan a special day for this so that we can be prepared to do all the fun interactive things, each teacher taking charge of an activity for it. The videos are great and the children really learn from plant to plate. As a centre that provides all food and has a set five week menu, often children will bring up weeks later when eating the vegetable or product, they will chat amongst themselves what they have learnt. Feedback from parents has also been great as we have an online portfolio service and do a story once a month on our activity so whanau can see what we have been up too."
Pip Deazley – Puddleducks’ Nursery and Preschools, Feilding
Participated in the 2017 ‘Know Me Eat Me’ Programme
“For milk month we decided to find someone who had an animal to milk and one of our families had a goat that they were happy to bring in and milk for us.
We made some fresh cheese yesterday with herbs from our garden and some butter today. The cheese went down a treat and we sent little pats of butter home. Thanks for all the hard work you have put in to developing this programme. We are having a great time.”
Tina Millar – Morgan Educare Centre, Flaxmere, Hastings
Participated in the 2017 ‘Know Me Eat Me’ programme
