QKFN for teachers

About QKFN

Queensland Kids Fresh Net (QKFN) is a comprehensive promotional and educational program designed to increase the awareness and consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables by primary school-aged children. Brisbane Markets Limited license the Fresh for Kids program from Sydney Markets Limited and have developed extra elements to suit Queensland schools.

Teachers from schools in Queensland can register their schools for FREE and gain access to:

• Posters
• Colourful seasonality guides and recipe brochures
• Bookmarks, tattoos, stickers and other materials
• Either a class tour of the Brisbane Produce Market or a visit from a QKFN team member to your school (within a 1 hour radius of the Brisbane CBD only for school visits)
• Use of the F & V Gang characters
• The opportunity to use the Fresh for Kids and Market Fresh Young Explorer websites as a teaching and learning tool about fruit and vegetables and healthy lifestyles.

The campaign is themed around the 'F & V Gang', fix bright and colourful fruit characters that have been specially designed to appeal to primary school aged children. The main thrust of the program is to promote fruit and vegetables as 'fun' and 'cool'. 

Websites

Fresh for Kids

Encouraging your students to use the Fresh for kids website is a great way to ensure they are having a fun and educational experience on a safe website. The site includes:

• Fruit and Vege Games
• Fun Fast Fruit and Vege Facts
• Recipes
• Fun stuff like jokes, colouring in pages, and fruit party guidelines
• Sporting links
• Classroom signs

Market Fresh - Young Explorer

Another excellent website for children is the Market Fresh Young Explorer section. This site includes:

• Activities and games
• Kids recipes
• Stuff for school projects
• Interesting information

If your students are registered users of either of these websites their personal information will not be used for anything other than sending out prizes.

Go for 2&5

The Go for 2&5 website is another excellent site for kids activities including:

• Make your own vegeman
• Fun kids cooking recipes
• Colouring in sheets
• Fabulously healthy and delicious recipes
• A fruit and vegetable guide
• A fruit and vegetable consumption check

F&V Gang

The F&V Gang consists of six lovable fruit and vegetable characters:

• Summa Strawberry
• Bazza Banana
• Megabite Apple
• Oscar Orange
• Tamara Tomato
• Captain Capsicum

The QKFN team has four life sized characters which they take with them to school presentations, and which are also available for registered schools to borrow if they are available.