Garden to Table

Pleasurable food education:

skills for learning, skills for life

What is Garden to Table?

• An exciting, integrated and comprehensive programme that helps children understand how to grow, harvest, prepare and share good food
• It builds skills for life through highly practical, curriculum-integrated and child-centric classes teaching gardening and cooking skills
• Provides NZ Curriculum-linked activities that allow authentic integration of Garden to Table into classroom-based learning
• Builds awareness of responsibility for the environment, conscious eating and community connectedness

How does Garden to Table work?

• Year 6 team with input from other year levels term 3 onwards.  Every Wednesday morning 9-12.30
• Delivered by classroom teachers supported by Specialist Garden and Kitchen once a week
• We have a school garden behind room 19, and prepare & share food in the inquiry space / kitchen
• Hands-on, fun sessions –children learn through doing
• Wider curriculum is linked into Garden to Table lessons
• Opportunity for volunteer engagement.  Contact khills@torbay.school.nz  or vmitschak@torbay.school.nz