1. Saammmiky Classroom
Description:
- The facilitator asks students about what they would like to eat by reviewing a list of food items pasted on the white board.
- A student would select the items
- The faclitator would try to tell the class the amount of sugar, salt and oil that are present in the meal by using demonstrations of mixing real sugar, salt and oil in a cup.
Objective:
- Educate students about the amount of intake that they have in a day
- An element of fear is used to instill the knowledge
Comments:
Kate: Overall, I would say that the objective is reached. This is especially true during the first demonstration when everyone's attention is more focus. However, it somehow got dominated by the few who keep on asking questions in the end.
For the side I am sitting at, the gals (esp) are quite lethargic in the end. I feel that this programme could be improve by breaking them into focus groups. Some health facts also got pretty complicated for them to understand.
Jeremy commented on how it feels like a science class after a while.
Still, I would say the objective of this session is pretty much achieved as shown during the next activity.
Yi Eng: I agree that objective are met. It got the students interested in knowing how much oil, sugar, salt the food they usually eat contained.However, the boys seemed more interested than the girls, and more willing to participate. But, while the cup was passed around, some of the girls were looking at it with interest too. Even though they are more passive, I felt they have learn something too.
Maybe we had too many demonstrations. Could have one big one then break into smaller groups. This way the girls would have the chance to participate more actively too.
Agree that some health facts too complicated, however since it was the students who asked, we have to answer too. Think Shaun did a pretty good job in explaining (and controlling Ben who was asking too many questions w/o listening to the answers).
2. Little Detective - Surveying your environment
Description:
- Students are divided into three groups
- With camera at hand, students recce their school canteen by selecting food that fall in the following categories: Fav/Dislike/Most healthy/Most unhealthy
Objective:
- Make students aware of their environment
- Identify problems and issues of pertinent to health in the hall
- Try to get students to enunciate about ways to improve things in school
Comments:
Kate: Students are more active here, maybe because of the long time that they have seated down. It actually takes some time to control even for the girls that I am dealing with. Although girls like eleanor don't really talk much in class, she actually make comments on what she wants to include as the unhealthy food such as curry chicken rice.
I think that everyone participated in this activity with even the girls coming up with suggestions on how to complete this activity. The girls are the only one who went and ask the vendors whether they could go in through the back to photograph the food.
During the review of food, most students got it right in categorizing healthy and unhealthy food. Of course, there are discrepancy as to what students like may not necessarily be healthy, which is perfectly fine.
I guess the most interesting part is that students highlighted the issue that they do not buy fruits from the canteen is because of the following:
- Too expensive (most kids have 1.50 or less per day for each meal [recess/lunch] )
- Just enough to buy main disc (chicken rice = $1) & a drink (milo = 50cents)
- Haha some of their comments are cute too. Like wanting free fruits. Seems like they will eat the fruits if it free, meaning its not that they dislike fruits, but finds them too expensive.
- Not the type of fruits that they like (some suggested apples. In fact, it is possible for canteen vendors to provide fruits salad in the canteen for a change)
3. Handing out of The Sandwich Builder
Description:
- Being the penultimate session, students are given a sandwich builder, complete with 16 different ingredients (graphics plus nutritions facts at the back of card) to take home for use
Objective:
- The aim is to make students enjoy the process of making sandwiches esp. over the course of two weeks that we will not get to see them
- Monitoring issue - A picnic in two weeks time to see how students put the builder into good use
Comments:
Kate: This is more of a distribution of the material. Some comments from students are that they would wish to have the picnic or sharing session somewhere outdoor. We can make a note of that. Maybe we can arrange some games for the kids, where other students can join in as well. What say you? :P
I think we should let other students join in -- the last session is suppose to be a share it session too. And should be a bigger event to qualify for the HPB proposal.
Games will be good too. Ahh more planning~
Other issues
a) Final event
Kate: I guess we should finalize the final activity real soon, so I could try to get a date from Mas? It's also time to think about preparing all the materials needed such as handbooks and brochures. It is important for us to get in the funding soon.
Also, it might be interesting to get some student helpers from the group (after their exams) to help in coming out materials for the handbook (fun book) etc. Will we have time to coordinate this? This is esp. true as the principal did offer us help that we can get the digital design kids to help. It would be good to get them as a focus group in reviewing a booklet that we come up with.
b) Class dynamics
Kate: There is no doubt that through out the session, the gals are relatively quiet. They are really shy, even those who seem extroversial such as Lai Ling and Wei Lin. They do not like to talk in huge groups scenario, and are more comfy in their in-group. When their attention begin to dwindle during the first session, I was trying to bridge that gap with them.
Although it would be foolhardy to comment that I have already gotten much info. from them, I would say that they are getting more receptive in replying questions.
Yup I could see that you are trying your best to get them to be more comfortable with you by talking to them ^^ I think they rather speak as a small group rather than in front of the class where they just clam up and refuse to give comments.
c) Comments made by students
Kate:
When the fruits cocktail was shown, Nandini commented on how she tends to eat the whole can and drink all the syrup. Her mum actually buys more for her when she finishes hers.
Jeremy is very aware of what we are trying to do. Especially when Shaun mentioned about how "we would like you to think about changes so we can implement for them", Jeremy doesnt seem very receptive to such explicit expression of what we are trying to do. I am afraid that such direct expressions make kids, who are more matured than their age, give politically correct answers when we ask them questions.
Although most kids got quite less pocket money, girls like Eleanor and her fren (sorry, couldnt recall her name) got about 3 to 4 dollars a day. Would this be a contributing factor as to how much she eat? (Hmm she might not spend everything on food?)
This is apparently not the most condensed, surped up, reduced and compressed summary you've ever seen. Just some thoughts added.
Please feel free to add on!
Kate
Yi Eng
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