Join us on a food adventure with your class!

This programme

• Encourages healthy eating, especially eating more vegetables

• Encourages kids to explore foods they haven’t tried before

• Helps children understand the seasonality of food

• Helps kids to make more positive food choices

• Takes the guesswork and hours of planning out of teaching kids about nutrition

• Develops problem-solving skills

• Easily implemented with other aspects of the teaching curriculum

• Great for those children who thrive through practical, engaged learning

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 stories and completing 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.

Every week of the eight week programme you will cover a new food topic using the digital resources provided. Over the eight week period you will cover the following eight food modules which will help your pupils make healthy choices at school and home. Corn, tomato, kumara, lettuce, zucchini, milk, beans, feijoa. We have visited and found New Zealanders who are growing the food we eat and created stories about them.

Special COVID-19 Announcement

Due to the current lockdown situation throughout New Zealand we are offering participating schools the option of login access to the resources for both staff and pupils.

Payment Information

For those schools who don’t have access to purchasing online with a credit card simply email us and we can invoice you and get you set up.

This package comprises of a total of 74 pdfs including unit plans and a certificate template

Each of the 8 modules includes:

• Story featuring a real New Zealander grower

• Science investigation

• Recipe

• Lunchbox Ideas

• Fact sheet

• Literacy Poster

• Level 1 Worksheet

• Level 2 Worksheet

• Level 3 Worksheet

Covers the Following Topics: Food, Nutrition, Health, Gardening, Sustainability

Level One, Two and Three: Health and Physical Education and English

Designed for inquiry based learning with endless extension opportunities and research question possibilities. Comprehensive curriculum links including achievement objectives supplied. A complete unit plan and weekly plan suggestions will be supplied.

Additional Curriculum Areas: Science, Maths, Social Science

Heres what others say about the programme

" I have been gobsmacked to see nearly every child try all the foods. One little girl rushed out the day we made baked mushrooms and proceeded to tell our school cleaner how yummy they were. The cleaner went home and cooked them for tea. Other children went home and asked their mums to make the cauliflower recipe (we put our cauliflower on skewers then dipped them in the sauce). All the children wanted to show their parents all about the programme when we had our student conferences at the end of term.

The absolute highlight of the programme was going out to our class garden, digging up our carrots, baking them with honey which came from my bee hive and eating them for morning tea." 

Sue Ham - Teacher – Featherston School

"Your whats for lunch program has been a great way to support our gardening and healthy food ongoing focus. It has allowed students to make connections with the real world outside of school and the processes involved, as well as career information for our older students. The program has been integrated into mixed ability reading and has helped to lift topic vocab. They really enjoy the science component too. What a great resource." 

Yani Ferens - Teacher at Ngataki School

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