Edendale Food for Thought and Garden to Table

 Our programmes involve students between the ages of five and eleven years. Our junior students participate in the class teacher-led programme ‘Food for Thought’. Our older students participate in the NZ Garden to Table Trust’s programme where they have a cooking lesson with our kitchen specialist and a gardening lesson with our garden specialist once every fortnight. We have numerous edible gardens in the school, gardens which have food and flowers, an orchard and other fruit trees planted around the school. We also have a student-built greenhouse made of recycled plastic bottles. Volunteers helps to support the programme by helping out with both programmes. The programme is fully integrated with our curriculum and supports inquiry, science, maths and literacy programmes. It was the favourite learning area nominated by students in 2012.