Project Diary

Olympic Values

Respect – fair play; knowing one’s own limits; and taking care of one’s health and the environment

Excellence – how to give the best of oneself, on the field of play or in life; taking part; and progressing according to one’s own objectives

Friendship – how, through sport, to understand each other despite any differences

Paralympic values

• Courage • Determination• Inspiration • Equality

SmallSteps4Life

SmallSteps4Life is a fun programme with a serious aim - to help initiate and support long-term behaviour change amongst children

and young people

SmallSteps4Life will help motivate children and young people to take manageable steps to improve their health and wellbeing through

achievable challenges around eating well, getting active and feeling good.

SmallSteps4Life is part of the healthy and active lifestyles strand of Get Set, the official London 2012 education programme and supports

Change4Life.

6th September 2011

Today I started doing my initial plan, by

looking at the website and taking sub

headings and tasks from there.

23rd September 2011

Today I started work on my EatWellDatabase. I also had to make sure

that I took print screens of my steps and I have started to create a step

by step instruction PowerPoint on how to

create a database. I also had to put in 3 of our

own records.

4th October 2011

Today I began to create my questionnaire. My

questionnaire is made up of a series of questions to help me determine key aspects of my project such as what the favourite food group of

my audience are, what activities they would enjoy

doing for their challenges, if they would prefer to do the challenges with friends or alone etc.… I also finished off entering my own pieces of data into my database and creating the evidence

PowerPoint.

7th October 2011

Today I continued on with the creation of my

questionnaire, I finished the basic template and began to

ask for feedback from my test buddy and she told me that I needed to make my questionnaire more related to my theme, so I changed

the colour of my text to follow my colour scheme,

then I added a picture from the change 4 life website. I then started to insert the

information from my questionnaire into a spread sheet for me to be able to

analyse the information on it

18th October 2011

Today I started to insert the information that I collated

from my survey onto a spread sheet, this will enable

me to analyse the information quickly and will aid me in establishing which

food groups were most favoured/least favoured, which will then help me

create my reports and meal cards.

23rd October 2011

Today I continued with the building of my spread sheet, however I moved onto the analysis of the data and

began to create pie charts, as I developed my spread sheet I created a step by step guide to explain my

decisions.

8th November 2011

Today I continued with analysis of my spread sheet,

I moved on from using countif statements to using countifs statements to cross reference the data and gain

more knowledge from my questionnaire.

11th November 2011

Today I began creating my queries which will then lead

to the creation of my reports. I had to ensure that

the validations for the reports reflected the

research I did to ensure that the portions that I suggested

were healthy.

22nd November 2011

Today I began creating my reports from my queries. As I

had excess records I went through them all and took

out all the ones that I thought were either in

appropriate with the course that the report was for or either ones that I thought weren’t as healthy as the other available options.

25h November 2011

Today I continued with the creation of my reports, with some feedback from my test

buddy I began to whittle down my reports list even more as she said it could have been

shorter. I also decided to personalise my reports so

they fitted my theme through out the project. As today is my last lesson for quite a while I had to ensure that I had all

the resources required for me to continue on with my work

out of class time.

20th December 2011

Today I began to create my meal cards for both the

main course meal and the desert. I got the information for my meal card from my

report. I chose what I thought would be a

combination of delicious yet healthy ingredients to create an enjoyable main course. I

collected the nutritional information for this meal

through research.

17th January 2012

Today is my first lesson back from my Christmas holidays. Today I continued with the creation of the second part

of my meal card. To build up the desert course, I did the same thing as I did with the making of my main course, I got the information for the nutritional information from

research.

20th January 2012

Today I began to create my challenge card, I used the

criteria that was given to me off the website to ensure that I included aspects that were

needed.

31st January 2012

Today I continued with the creation of my challenge

card, after receiving feedback from my peers I

have made small adjustments such as the

sizing of the box for tracking the progress. I was told that it was too small to make a

detailed comment in it so I decided to expand it.

3rd February 2012

Today is my last lesson before half term and I spent it making small changes to

my work, following the feedback that was given to me from both my peers and my teacher. I have collected

all the work necessary so that I am able to continue

with my alterations over the half term. I also used this time to catch up on the

dates for my ongoing plan.

6th February 2012

I took the time at home to finish off small details of my

work, such as going over certain documents, reading

feedback from my test buddies and making

necessary alterations to fit in line with what they said

could be improved.

7th February 2012

Whilst at home I began working on my e-portfolio

and I began to create headings for each branch relating to the different

sections of my work.

8th February 2012

Today I began writing introductions for each

section of my work. These intros enables the viewers to

get a rough idea of what each heading includes and the work that I had to do

9th February 2012

Today I beagn writing my review. My review basically includes things that I had to do throughout this project, how I found each task, any problems that I came up

against and how I overcame them. I found this section

very long and tiring

10th February 2012

Today I rounded off with the completion of my e-portfolio

and I exported it into a website looking at any small tweaks that I had to make.