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This term students have started to think about CHANGE, and what better place to develop our understanding of cause and effect than in the kitchen! Many physical and chemical changes happen when food is prepared – making food is all about change.  Over the last few weeks, students have had the opportunity to think about […]

This term has looked a little (a lot!) different for the Kitchen Garden Program within the Year 3/4 Neighbourhoods, but it has certainly given all of us the opportunity to explore our own personal kitchen and garden spaces, and share our skills and experience with each other through Google Classroom. Some highlights of this term

  Next week the Year 3/4 students will start to plant vegetable seeds – both directly sown into the garden beds that we have weeded and into seed trays and seedling containers. This week we started to make origami seedling containers out of newspaper (on reflection after testing out a few with soil, thicker scrap

Today all of the 3/4 students participated in a garden session as part of the Kitchen Garden Program. We worked together to weed two of our garden beds, saving two types of edible weeds that we cooked with in Week 6 and 7 – Purslane and Mallow – so that families can take some home

Today students from 34A and 34B cooked Chai (caffeine free), Rosemary Crackers and Sauteed Greens in our Kitchen Garden lesson. As a last minute change, we were in the kitchen for a double session, but this gave us a bit more time to spend preparing, cooking and enjoying our food. 34C and 34D will have

In Week 4 students shared their understandings of what plants need to survive and began to look more closely at the soil in different areas around the school. We first brainstormed our knowledge to develop a shared understanding which will help guide our learning in weeks to come. Learning about what plants need is going

This week the Year 3/4 students were back in the kitchen using their senses of sight and smell to investigate and gather preliminary information about many different spices from all around the world. In the Kitchen Garden Workshops on Wednesday students began to learn about and compare different types of spices as a way to

This year the Year 3/4s have the exciting role and responsibility of leading the development of a weekly and ongoing Kitchen Garden Program at Princes Hill Primary School, including creating a productive and sustainable kitchen garden in the existing garden bed area in front of the Gym/beside the North Oval. In our first week of

  The Secret Santas of the Year 2 Neighbourhood have been busy spreading holiday cheer this week, with handmade trinkets, thoughtful notes and creative crafts being discovered in lockers! Some people are still working on their creation so for the students still waiting for a surprise, here’s a message from one Secret Santa who’s working

A picture of the Lyla, Hugh and Maia, the students who shared their thinking for our Mental Maths discussion this morning.