Nutrition In Year 9, students undertake the subject of Nutrition at Waterford for a semester. Students learn about the role of food and nutrition in enhancing health and wellbeing. They developed knowledge, understanding and skills to make healthy, informed food choices and to explore the contextual factors that influence eating habits and food choices. Students cooked a variety of dishes at school in the nutrition kitchen. These included a range of healthy snacks like smoothies, vegetable sticks, dips, healthy granola, and muffins.
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They learned they could make some of their favourite dishes, like pancakes and nachos, using healthy ingredients. During remote learning, the boys stepped up and began cooking healthy meals at home. They were given a theme each week along with healthy recipes and videos from which to choose. They picked a meal that they would cook for dinner, including healthy rice dishes, pasta and noodles, pizzas, and burgers.
The boys learned about the nutritional value of these foods and how selecting fresh ingredients and making meals from scratch is beneficial for their health and wellbeing. Most of the boys were cooking dinner for their entire family, which often required a significant amount of preparation of ingredients. The dishes they produced were outstanding, and the feedback from the boys and their families was overwhelmingly positive. They really enjoyed cooking meals at home and found the remote learning to be very rewarding.
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