Grow Your Program: Blacktown

Grow your Program is a hands-on day of training giving educators practical skills and experience as they continue to establish the Kitchen Garden Program and deliver engaging, successful kitchen garden sessions.

We will celebrate the successes and troubleshoot challenges of running a Kitchen Garden Program and together, learn new kitchen and garden skills and techniques, share practice and build your kitchen garden networks.

Training objectives:

• a hands-on experience of pleasurable food education
• celebrate your successes and troubleshoot any challenges
• build on garden skills and be inspired for future garden classes
• build on kitchen skills and be inspired for future kitchen classes
• share practice with your local kitchen garden community to learn, share resources and network
• plan the next steps for your kitchen garden program
• ask all the questions you need to grow you kitchen garden program

Got a question? Please contact the Support Team on 13000 SAKGF (13000 72543) or support@kitchengardenfoundation.org.au.

Need to cancel or transfer your booking? Please see our Cancellation Policy for details.

Training outcomes 

Early childhood educators:

This course supports the implementation of the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) National Quality Standards.

Completing Delivering Kitchen Garden Sessions reinforces the following elements:

1.1.1 Curriculum decision making contributes to each child’s learning and development outcomes in relation to their identity, connection with community, wellbeing, confidence as learners and effectiveness as communicators.

2.1.3 Healthy eating and physical activity are promoted and appropriate for each child.

3.2.3 The service cares for the environment and supports children to become environmentally responsible.

6.2.3 The service builds relationships and engages with its community.

Primary and secondary teachers:

The outcomes of this course are aligned to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers as outlined by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) in maintaining the following standards:

2.2 – Content selection and organisation

3.2 – Plan structure and sequence learning programs

3.4 – Select and use resources

4.2 – Manage classroom activities 

6.2 – Engage in professional learning and improve practice.