The Hayes Manor School

After several lessons, planning and discussing our coursework we had the opportunity to learn of different things.

Then finally we chose to create a leaflet containing the school menu (school health eating program) with eating tables and patterns. This is meant to explain the school menu and diet patterns on a day-to-day basis. I had to translate the leaflet into different languages o it could attract more people to read it not only in English but also in other languages which they understand. Our school has a high number of people from other backgrounds, therefore there are 64 languages spoken all around.The decision to help the school on a project was influenced by everyone. As there were a lot of suggestions we agreed to vote on which ones people found quite helpful.

I thought if people knew which kind of food was healthy then they would want to know more about it. Our co-coordinator/teacher suggested we pair up with someone we felt comfortable working with as would make the project fun. We translated all our projects o different languages because our school is multicultural. We couldn't get any volunteers to translate the project and this led to us holding a search for a site we could use to help us with the translation.

This school menu is meant to increase nutrition amongst the students through implementing healthy eating patterns and diets. The main reason for creating a menu was to influence more people to eat healthy and improve their diets. Now that there are some translations to help those who can't read/understand English very well we could see a massive change in percentage of people who know what eating healthy means.The food in Hayes Manor is checked before it gets served and sometimes we get food inspectors to come and help us improve our school diet and enrich the quality our food. Eating healthy basically means including most of the nutrients the body needs to grow.

For example there SHOULD be carbohydrates, proteins, iron, all those kind of things in a meal to help the body fight disease and other things that could harm the human body.Making the leaflet was the hardest task of all. Before I started I planned out how I wanted it to look and hose all the colours that would make it attractive and presentable. Here is a rough plan on how I had planned it to look although I could still make a few changes afterwards:For the first page I thought I would have the Hayes Manor School Logo and a heading on what the leaflet is based on. On the following pages I will have the daily menu, say like on I will have a menu for Monday, Tuesday and so on. Lastly for my backspace I will find it really helpful if I could find some information on how people could improve their diet and fitness.

This will be a real positive influence on a number of people.As we were told there would be no supply of computers we had to do our leaflets on paper and not on a computer system. Everyone found this quite challenging and pretty hard to do. Although we had a supply in colouring pencils and lots of paper we really thought if we had machines out leaflets would be nice. For the translation we used a website called www.babelfish.

com. This was quick and allowed us more time to spare on improving our leaflets.This project had proved to be helpful and I've personally picked up a few things on he way. For the most part I now know a lot of things I didn't know about the school and other languages. I was really impressed at how other people spoke in their languages and it was quite nice to ear them say a word or two.

The languages that are known to be the most popular in our school are as follows:ArabicPortugueseFrenchDutchGerman andPunjabi.The school administrator will try out this project for six months. We won't have trouble finding out how effective it would have been because our teacher has fixed a day on which we are going to be told the results and other things that could need a little bit of changing in the future. On the other hand I personally think the fixed date we have is too far away and we could make things easier if checked often with the reception to find out if there are any up or downs. We need to work as a team and make sure that no-one falls behind as this could be a life changing subject for others. To keep the project alive we could find other ways of advertising our project to the media and this will encourage a lot of people to pay attention to our project.

Analysing and checking my project I realised that the quality of our work was of an average standard and many people will argue and say that if there were machines and computer systems things could have been easier but looking back I noticed that a lot of people didn't plan out their work and this is he main reason our work is not of the highest possible standard. If we had taken some time to plan our work and jot down ideas in a piece of paper I believe I could have been a huge difference.The presentations we had prepared were not good to a certain extent and I think we could have done much better. I didn't like the way I designed my leaflet, I found it too bright and it didn't have enough pictures of food materials. The way my work was laid out was poor and if we have machines there could have been no problem with all these things.

The reason behind us doing hand-written leaflets was to improve our presentational skills and craft out something from nowhere.Nevertheless if we were given another chance to improve our projects I would need a computer to show a clear leaflet and some understanding in my task. The other thing we didn't get is a lot of advise from our teacher and application skills, including knowledge and understanding. All in all I've had a lot of fun with the project and I quite liked it. I really hope this could be the kind of breakthrough our school needed all along. I believe that in the future there will be students that are going to admire the work I've done and hopefully improve it to another standard.