Our Kitchen ....

Healthy, Nutritional and Nourishing Food is recognised as important at Weka, allowing your child to flourish within our learning environment where their enery levels are maintained, brain function is supported and a healthy mindset is encouraged and educated.

Menu

Our menu is designed in line with the Healthy Heart Programme, ensuring the children receive quality wholesome meals across the day. We encourage building independence in self serving, recognising fullness, healthy choice options, contributing to lunch preparation and for our Tuatara children weekly making a lunch box at Weka learning about preparing their own lunch and then dining out of it in preparation for school.
Many of our daily dishes are cooked meals, ensuring children's midday meal exposes them to a large variety of quality cuisine - national and international.

Sonia - Weka Chef

Yummy nutritioiuos home style meals come through the Weka kitchen daily for all tamariki.  Sonia takes pride in serving meals that not only taste great but also look great. 
​Her passion for food works in well with designing a menu that provides children a variety of food tastes and texture.

Weka Gardens

Exposing the children to nature and wonder by planting, maintaining and enjoying the food from our own gardens, ensures connectedness and an understanding about the value in growing our own food supplies.
Allowing the children to harvest produce and add it to their daily kai ensures value and respect for their hard work.
Teaching our future generation about how whole body health is recognised as important for us to grow and flourish into fun filled humans with wonderful life skills.

Allergies/Intolerances

Valuing cultural approaches with food preparation and consumption alongside the importance of valuing individual health needs is fully catered for within Weka's kitchen.  Sonia is totally intune with family needs and personally discusses individal requirements face to face. 

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