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Garden to Table

Healthy school environment, Healthy eating, Adolescent, Curriculum Development, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Websites - Updated

The Garden to Table programme is changing the way children approach and think about food. All around the country, we want to see children enthusiastically getting their hands dirty and learning how to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal food.

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Fun Facts

Digestive System, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Curriculum Development - Updated

15 fun facts about the digestive system

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Fun Core Exercises For Kids!

Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Activity - Updated

These core exercises for kids may help develop your child's core strength and stability.

Having good core strength can help your child sit well at a desk, and helps  provide a stable base for gross and fine motor tasks.

As an occupational therapist and homeschooling mom, I have used these exercises in the schools where I have worked, as well as  with my own children, so they are easy to do, and designed to be done by kids who may struggle with coordination and strength.

Not all children will become athletes, but all children do need core stability to be functional in daily school and home tasks.

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Full o’ Beans Cookbook

Recipes, Healthy eating, Nutrition , Healthy school environment, Adolescent, Senior Primary - Updated

Legumes and beans are a great heart healthy food – they’re full of goodness as well as being cheap, tasty, and quick and convenient to use. From the National Heart Foundation

 

FOOD, NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS AND EARLY LEARNING SERVICES

Nutrition , Healthy school environment, Healthy eating - Updated

Effective Practice report from ERO.

Young people told ERO that even though they knew what to do, they were

not always able to make these healthy choices. Environmental and financial

constraints limited their ability to participate in physical activity. They were

restricted in their ability to make healthy nutritional choices by the food that

was available to them, either as a result of what was affordable, or what their

parents chose to provide.

Schools and early learning services can teach children and young people

to value healthy food, nutrition and physical activity. To effectively change

behaviour, parents, whänau, local government and the wider community

needs to work together to support children and young people with

opportunities to make the best choices for their health and wellbeing.

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Food portions guide for kids, teens and adults - A4 poster

Healthy eating, Nutrition , Healthy school environment, Adolescent, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Healthy weight - Updated

Do you know how much is enough when it comes to servings of different food types? This handy visual reference can be used for children, teenagers and adults and is an easy way to check the size of your food portions. From the National Heart Foundation. Free for first 25 (then $0.10 per unit)

 

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Food Labels

Healthy eating, Adolescent, Curriculum Development, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Healthy weight - Updated

Today all manufacturers need to provide nutritional information on all pre-packaged foods and drinks found in the UK. You’ll find this information on the food label either on the front or back of pack, to help you understand the nutrient and calorie count.

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Food Ideas and tools

Nutrition , Recipes, Healthy school environment, Healthy eating, Adolescent, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Healthy weight, Websites - Updated

Ideas for non-food rewards, recipes, snacks, drinks, markets, sugar, portion sizes

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Food Guide - Canada

Nutrition , Recipes, Healthy school environment, Healthy eating, Healthy weight, Websites - Updated

From the Canadian Government.  Interesting and useful recipes, resources, information and tips.  In Canada there is a real emphasis on HOW we eat (as a family, at a table, with sharing), not just on WHAT we eat.

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Food for Thought website

Healthy eating, Nutrition , Curriculum Development, Senior Primary, Websites - Updated

This is a FREE national nutrition education programme developed for years 5 and 6, based on the NZ curriculum, using an inquiry based learning approach.  By participating in Food for Thought you will receive:

  • classroom nutrition sessions delivered by a nutritionist
  • a supermarket visit with an inquiry learning nutrition focus
  • a gift card to the value of $60 per class to sponsor a healthy class lunch which the students design, calculate a budget, buy, prepare and enjoy
  • a FREE lunchbox for each student in the class
  • a prepared Solo Taxonomy teaching resource for additional nutrition learning sessions
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Food and drinks surprisingly high in sugar

Healthy eating, Adolescent, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Healthy weight - Updated

18 Foods and Drinks That Are Surprisingly High in Sugar

Eating too much sugar is really bad for your health.

It's been linked to an increased risk of many diseases, including obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer.

Many people are now trying to minimize their sugar intake, but it's easy to underestimate how much you're actually consuming.

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Follow your food! A juicy look through the digestive system

Digestive System, Healthy eating, Curriculum Development, Junior Primary - Updated

You eat a meal. And then a bit later… you do a poo! But what happens in between? NG KiDS takes a juicy journey down through your digestive system to find out where your grub goes…

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Feeding Minds

Nutrition , Healthy school environment, Healthy eating, Curriculum Development - Updated

The impact of food on mental health

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Exercise Energy Charts

Healthy eating, Adolescent, Senior Primary, Healthy weight, Activity - Updated

The charts below provide  an estimated number of Kilojoules or Calories  expended at various body weights while performing a range of exercises for 30 minutes.

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Easy ways to eat more veges and tasty snack ideas

Recipes, Healthy eating, Nutrition , Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Healthy weight - Updated

You can download or get a Pad of 50 tear-off ideas pages for healthier ways to do snack and to get more veggies into your diet

 

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Easy meals with vegetables

Recipes, Healthy eating, Adolescent, Senior Primary, Video, animation - Updated

These 'Easy meals with vegetables’ flyers show basic storage, preparation and cooking techniques for common vegetables. They will be useful to those running introductory cooking classes, in vegetable co-op boxes and for use in healthy lifestyle programmes.

They come in pads of 20 double-sided A4 flyers and include a basic recipe.                

Free

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Diseases-caused-by-nutritional-deficiency

Nutrition , Healthy eating, Adolescent - Updated

Find out the conditions that could arise if a healthy balanced diet is not followed. These are 10 conditions that are caused by poor nutritional status.

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Digestive System worksheets

Digestive System, Junior Primary, Senior Primary, Curriculum Development, Worksheets - Updated

From crosswords to word finds to fill in the blanks and even colouring in, these worksheets are a fun way to educate children on the digestive system.

 

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