We have just completed our first Garden to Table menu for the year!
It has been wonderful seeing all the friendly familiar faces of the Year 5 children and welcoming the bright enthusiastic faces of the Year 4 children at their first Garden to Table session.
We have welcomed new volunteers and are thankful to those returning volunteers who supported us last year and are helping out again this year.
Year 4 children learnt about knife safety in the kitchen and prepared crudites, hummus and date and apricot bliss balls. All recipes can be found in the Year 4 recipes section in this blog.
Year 5 children were reminded of the knife techniques they learnt last year and put them into practice to produce a fresh tomato and corn salsa, homemade tortilla chips and apple and cinnamon pinwheel scones.
In the garden, Year 4 children walked around the school looking at all the different gardens and areas that they will become familiar with, and they learnt about seeds.
Year 5 gardeners did a variety of jobs. Different classes watered, weeded and turned the compost, emptied the worm bins and prepared the bokashi buckets for the kitchen.
We have had lots of lunchtime helpers: cutting back weeds, sorting seeds, preparing nametags and painting pictures. Georgia and Anastasia in Year 6 are organising a lunchtime Garden to Table club to be held on a Wednesday, so look out for information on that to be outlined soon.
The whole school Term 1 concept is Ako which is a Maori term that describes a teaching and learning relationship. All children have been put in to a group of 4 or 5 and have started to learn together and build relationships that they will work on throughout the year. They will get to understand each others strengths and work together to grow, harvest, prepare and share.
