Teachers & Educators

Quick Meals for Kooris

Quick Meals for Kooris is a ‘hands-on’ cooking program, developed to assist Aboriginal people prepare easy, low-cost family meals using available ingredients. Allowing time to cook, eat and share ideas and knowledge is an important part of this program.

Check out this short video to find out more about the Quick Meals for Kooris program and how it can be adopted in your organisation.

“I’ve used the training to show other people how to cook inexpensive meals.”

Lynne Clarke, volunteer, San Remo Neighbourhood Centre.

“What I love about the Quick Meals for Kooris is the recipes are simple and easy to make in your home, the ingredients are available in all shops and honestly some of the standard ingredients are in your cupboard today, right now.”

Kerry Groves, volunteer, San Remo Neighbourhood Centre

Quick Meals for Kooris is designed to be run by Aboriginal health workers or Aboriginal community members. This versatile program can be adapted to suit participant needs, resources and capacity of leaders. Program ‘leaders’ will not need extensive nutrition knowledge or food preparation skills as the Quick Meals for Kooris – Trainers Manual provides detailed guidance. Recipes included in the program are in the Quick Meals for Kooris – At Home book. It is intended that all group participants are given a copy of this book. This book is also a stand-alone resource and can be provided to people who do not attend a program.

NEW Quick Meals for Kooris recipe videos

You can watch how to prepare four of the quick, easy and low-cost recipes from the Quick Meals for Kooris at Home book.

Watch the videos below and download the recipes and methods.

Hawaiian Chicken Pasta | Quick Meals for Kooris

Vegetable Slice | Quick Meals for Kooris

Fruit Crumble | Quick Meals for Kooris

Family Mince | Quick Meals for Kooris

Thank you to Mitch Ella, Steve Ella, Tyra McEwen and Jenni McEwen for featuring in the videos.

Tell us what you think of these videos here!

Download the video recipes below:

Family Mince

Chicken Pasta

Vegetable Slice

Fruit Crumble

For more information, hard copy resources or support with nutrition training contact Lesley Marshall on (02) 4320 3691 or email [email protected].

School Gardens

By Health Promotion

School Gardens

Having a garden can help your school to promote environmental and sustainable learning as well as encourage healthy eating and physical activity. It is a fun way to learn outside and provides students with a hands-on opportunity to prepare, eat and share the food they have grown.

Participation in a school garden program has been shown to help improve knowledge and confidence in relation to growing, preparing, cooking and eating a diverse range of fresh foods among Australian children.¹

Can my school have a kitchen garden?

Any school can have some sort of garden or kitchen, regardless of their site, size, resources, gardening experience or classroom space.
How to start a Kitchen Garden

Kitchen gardening for sustainability

Patch to Plate is a free recipe book developed by the Central Coast Health Promotion Service that includes healthy and simple recipes that local teachers have made with their students using fresh ingredients from their own school gardens. Check out and download below to try these tasty recipes at school or at home.

You can also watch and share how to prepare four of our delicious recipes from the Patch to Plate book in the videos below!

Watch the videos below and download the recipes and methods.

Pea & Haloumi Fritters | Patch to Plate

Spinach & Feta Gozleme | Patch to Plate

Beetroot Hummus | Patch to Plate

Rice Paper Rolls | Patch to Plate

Tell us what you think of these videos here!

Central Coast School Garden Interest Group

The Central Coast School Garden Interest Group (CCSGIG) aims to share ideas and connect Central Coast schools with an interest in school gardens and cooking. Healthy eating, encouraging physical activity and providing an interest for students rather than using small screen technology underpins the group’s philosophy.

The group meets twice each year, with a different school hosting the meeting and sharing its experiences. This year, we are considering new ways to connect as a group – if you have any suggestions, get in touch!

Join us on Facebook!

If you have a question for our team or would like information on the next workshop complete the form below.

References

¹Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au

Central Coast Munch & Move newsletters

By Health Promotion

Our Central Coast Munch & Move newsletters are loaded with valuable healthy development information and resources for educators in early childhood education and care services.

To find out more about the Munch & Move program, which promotes a fun and play-based approach to supporting healthy eating and physical activity habits in young children, click here.

Current Central Coast Munch & Move newsletter

Check out the latest edition of the Central Coast Munch & Move newsletter, which includes upcoming professional development, new resources and programs.

Term 3 2020

Previous editions

Read our previous Central Coast Munch & Move newsletters for loads more useful material for your early childhood service.

Good Bite fact sheets

You might also be interested in our Good Bite fact sheets from the Central Coast Public Health and Community Nutrition team. They contain recipes and advice for parents and carers of children ages 0–5 years old. There’s also a dedicated version for childcare staff as well. Download the latest editions below.

Good Bite at home

Good Bite for childcare staff

Healthy Eating resources for the classroom

By Health Promotion

Go4Fun

Drinks for Children Poster

Choose Water

How green is your canteen?

By HEALTH Promotion

The Central Coast Environmental Education Network is challenging schools to reduce single use plastic and champion plastic free canteens. Schools that can demonstrate change can win a $50 voucher and will be presented with a plaque for their canteen to show they are the winning school for the term.

Schools can choose what steps they can take, from replacing plastic cutlery with re-usable (or compostable) cutlery, phasing out plastic straws, talking to their suppliers about reducing unnecessary plastic packaging or other alternative plastic reduction actions.

New schools can get involved by completing the online Green Canteen survey (on Rumbalara EEC’s website) and will receive a gift of wooden cutlery or paper straws.
Schools that have already been involved can choose a new action and tell us what you have changed by sending us a photo of the change along with a photo of your actions poster. Please send us an email to inform us of your schools involvement.

Email to [email protected]

How to be involved

1. All schools will receive a “How Green is your Canteen?” poster. Hang your poster near your canteen to show your support.
2. New schools that take the challenge should fill in the survey on the Rumbalara website and will receive free sustainable cutlery or straws.
https://rumbalara-e.schools.nsw.gov.au/green-canteens.html
3. Make some sustainable changes to your canteen and school and tick off the changes on the “Steps to A Green Canteen’ poster.
4. By the end of Term 3 tell us what you have changed by sending us a photo of the change along with a photo of your actions poster and email to
[email protected]
5. A panel will review each schools submission and advise the winner.

Green Canteen project is supported by Rumbalara Environmental Education Centre, Kariong Eco Garden, Community Environment Network, Central Coast Council, Australian Take3 and Cleanaway.

PDHPE Workshops

By HEALTH Promotion

Central Coast Health Promotion would like to invite you to a special PDHPE Network workshop.

The workshop will be held at Niagara Park Public School on Thursday 27th of February starting at 4:00pm.

At this terms workshop Sport NSW Disability Inclusion Manager Murray Elbourn will be presenting their Disability Inclusion Program.

The intent of the program is to educate those who are teaching or coaching participants with a range of disabilities and those who have not had the training to understand the more in depth aspects of the disability spectrum or how to adapt rules and equipment for Physical Activity and therefore may lack confidence in adapting their teaching practices.

Registration opens at 3:30pm for a 4:00pm start, a light afternoon tea will be provided.

This workshop will be perfect for teachers who are looking to learn new skills or expand their existing knowledge base.

Through this terms workshop you will:

Improved education in working with inclusion programs for physical, sensory and intellectual participants.
Education around rule adaptions and equipment to provide a better sporting experience.
Learn how to significantly improved sporting experiences for the participants as their needs are catered for and their enjoyment of the sport increases.
Higher participation numbers of participants with a disability in main stream sporting opportunities.
Improved health and wellbeing from participation

Quick Meals for Kooris