Our ākonga (learners) explore ways in which we can make better choices for ourselves and the environment.

Healthy Eating is at the forefront of everyone's mind this year, with the cost of living rising making it much harder for families to prioritise health in every way. Starting with food.... Food prices are skyrocketing and it isn't just healthy food that is expensive as the constant narrative suggests. The Year 8 buddies are supporting the Year 1 buddies with 2 mini units being run as rotations this year. Miss Latham is running a unit on designing and developing a Community Garden right here at school, and Miss P is exploring healthy eating for less. 

Miss Latham is currently in the process of supporting the ākonga to design and learn about the value of community gardens and why they are important within our Pegasus context. The plan is to develop and sustain a community garden long term with our buddies and SDG Ambassadors leading this initiative. We will be calling on expertise within our whānau community. 

Miss P has been co-constructing learning with the Buddies by asking thought-provoking questions about what it means to be healthy and what this may look like in regard to our daily food choices. By critically examining our lunchboxes, we are learning how to read nutrition labels on food, understand how marketing affects our choices, and how to make financially sustainable food choices that nourish our bodies so we can be the best we can be! Every 3 weeks the buddies develop a presentation to demonstrate what they have learned in order to share with our Te Kura o Manga Kawari community. This week's presentation is shared by Taige Ferrier, Hugo Bool, and Felicity Rickerby. Try out the chickpea cookie recipe for an alternative, yet nutritious and scrumptious biscuit recipe.  

Arohanui,

The SDG TEAM