: School Lunches
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Approach: One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8 
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Focus: Nutrition
Resources:Menu, recording book

Questions/instructions:

Sunny buys lunch most days, so it’s important that he buys healthy food.

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This list shows all the foods available at lunchtimes.

Marking Criteria
Most healthy list:
(most often)

Yoghurt
Sandwiches
Filled rolls (salad)
Fruit
Sushi
Nuts and Raisins		 Least healthy list:
(least often)

Potato crisps
Biscuits
Cakes
Hot chips
Sausage rolls
Icecreams
Chocolate bars
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% responses
2006 ('02)
y4
y8
1. Which foods would give Sunny a healthy lunch?    
Number of foods mentioned
from “most healthy” list:
6
30 (7)
44 (36)
5
27 (26)
30 (29)
4
26 (33)
15 (17)
3
13 (24)
8 (15)
0–2
4 (10)
3 (3)
Number of foods mentioned
from “least healthy” list:
0
81 (61)
88 (82)
1
17 (29)
11 (17)
2–7
2 (10)
1 (1)
2. Why do you say that?
 
not marked
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3. Which foods shouldn’t Sunny buy too often because they are not so healthy?
Number of foods mentioned from “least healthy” list:
7
15 (10)
25 (11)
6
22 (12)
20 (21)
5
21 (20)
19 (25)
4
22 (25)
19 (14)
3
11 (21)
10 (16)
0–2
9 (12)
7 (13)
Number of foods mentioned from “most healthy” list:
0
78 (72)
93 (91)
1
17 (21)
6 (9)
2–7
5 (7)
1 (0)
4. Why do you say that?
 
not marked
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5. You’ve told me which foods would give Sunny a healthy lunch, but are they your favourite foods on the list?
 
not marked
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6. If you were given a free choice to buy whatever you like, what would you buy?
 
not marked
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•
Total score:
12–13
17 (7)
30 (16)
10–11
30 (14)
30 (31)
8–9
25 (26)
23 (29)
6–7
18 (30)
12 (16)
0–5
10 (23)
5 (8)
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4
Year 8
Commentary:
Most students scored well on this task. Muesli bars and fruit juice were often put in the most healthy list, while attention to fat content had many students putting hot dogs, hamburgers and pizza slices into the least healthy list. Year 8 Pasifika students scored distinctly lower than other year 8 groups. There was a marked improvement from 2002 to 2006, especially for year 4 students.
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