May Road Primary School in Mt Roskill is buzzing with activities and ideas to help its children and the wider community lead healthy lifestyles.
Whether it’s using veges from the school garden which pupils maintain, holding nutrition classes for parents or organising community shared lunches, May Road Primary is committed to being a health promoting school.
“We are trying to build community buy in. We use the cooking classes and the community lunches as ways of involving the community”, says Principal Lynda Stuart.
“The school vegetable garden has been a great example of this. We started with a working bee which saw 50 people from the community coming together to assist with building the garden. Now the garden is used in school projects and has won national competitions.”
She says that gardening has really helped the children become interested in eating vegetables and to experiment with new flavours.
Lovely Puloto, a pupil involved in the gardening club, says that she “likes vegetables more now” and that her favourite vegetable is silver beet because “it is healthy”.
All the students enjoy the activity that gardening provides.
School garden fruitful for all