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Moving with Nutrition

At Move Early Learning, we believe good food fuels happy, healthy children. Our onsite chef prepares fresh, seasonal meals daily, ensuring every dish is nutritious, delicious, and balanced.

 

We embrace a garden-to-plate approach through the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program, where children plant, harvest, and prepare food, learning about sustainability and where their meals come from.

 

By making healthy eating fun and interactive, we empower children to develop lifelong positive food habits.

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Learn about our Kitchen Garden Program

As part of our Fuelling the Movement curriculum, we are thrilled to share that our kitchen garden project is growing! We’ve been working in partnership with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation to provide children with meaningful, hands-on experiences that connect them to healthy food, nature, and sustainability.

Through this project, children will:

  • Learn where food comes from and how to care for it

  • Develop practical gardening and cooking skills

  • Explore science and nature concepts through planting, watering, and harvesting

  • Build confidence, responsibility, and teamwork while working together

We will continue to expand and nurture our garden throughout the year, providing ongoing opportunities for children to engage with growing, tasting, and cooking fresh produce.

We warmly welcome our families to get involved! You can:

  • Help with planting and maintaining the garden

  • Talk to children about how to care for plants and food

  • Share in the joy of harvesting and tasting the fruits of our garden

These experiences align with:

  • NQS Elements: Quality learning through hands-on engagement and connection to the natural world

  • Move Early Learning – Fuelling the Movement Philosophy: Encouraging curiosity, healthy habits, and holistic development

We can’t wait to grow, learn, and explore with our Move community!

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Our Approach to Nutrition

Chef-Prepared Meals:
Made daily with seasonal, high-quality ingredients.

Local and Sustainable Ingredients:
We use fresh, locally sourced produce.
Inclusive & Safe – Catering for allergies, intolerances, and dietary needs.

Interactive Meal Times:
Encouraging independence and social engagement.

Mealtimes at Move

A colorful vegetable salad with tomato slices, avocado, radishes, cucumber, spinach, carrots, red cabbage, and bell peppers on a plate. Grated cabbage and kitchen utensils are visible nearby.

Inclusive

Meals include a variety of textures and tastes appropriate to the developmental stages of different age groups.

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Relaxed

Mealtimes are relaxed and supervised to encourage healthy eating practices.

Assorted salad ingredients including spinach, kale, lettuce, broccoli, tomatoes, Brussels sprouts, olives, corn, beans, chickpeas, red peppers, green peppers, shredded cheese, mushrooms, beets, and artichokes displayed in bowls and trays.

Independent

Supporting independence with self-serve stations and positive social interaction.

Cooking with Jo

As part of our Fuelling the Movement curriculum, we’re excited to introduce Cooking with Jo! Each week, children will have the opportunity to explore healthy cooking and gardening experiences that support their learning, wellbeing, and connection to food.

  • Monday: Gibraltar Room

  • Thursday: Ironbark Room

  • Friday: Granite Room

Children will begin by assisting with a range of cooking tasks – from chopping, stirring, and measuring ingredients – or caring for our garden, planting, watering, and harvesting fresh produce alongside our very own Chef Jo. Over time, these experiences will be extended throughout the service, allowing all children to participate and engage in meaningful, hands-on learning.

Through these experiences, children will:

  • Develop practical life skills: handling kitchen tools safely, following instructions, and working as part of a team

  • Learn about nutrition and healthy eating: exploring where food comes from and why different foods fuel our bodies

  • Enhance cognitive skills: counting, measuring, and problem-solving while cooking or gardening

  • Boost social-emotional development: taking turns, collaborating, and celebrating successes together

  • Connect with nature: caring for plants and understanding how food grows

  • Foster creativity and curiosity: experimenting with flavours, textures, and gardening techniques


Keep an eye out for our weekly posts featuring photos of what the children and Chef Jo got up to

These experiences connect to:

  • Move’s Philosophy – Fuelling the Movement: Encouraging healthy habits, curiosity, and wellbeing

  • NQS Elements: Supporting holistic development through engaging, practical, and purposeful experiences