Evaluation

At the start of the day I led a group discussion asking questions of the children that allow us to gain an idea of their exercise patterns, nutrition choices and environmental awareness. I will engaged the children in this activity by getting them to stand up and move around and have input in questions asked, while other members of the group recorded information.
 * Evaluation Of The Day **

- What do you guys think being healthy means? Most children seemed to think being healthy meant eating good foods and exercising at least 2 or 3 times a week. - Put your hand up if you exercise twice a week. Ask a couple what they do as exercise. Most children seemed to exercise at least twice a week with the main exercise being walking, running and traditional sports such as cricket - Put your hand up if you play sport on a weekend? Ask some of them what sports they play and where they play it. The majority of children did play sport on a weekend, but there were a few that didn't. The main sports were footy, cricket, soccer and tennis. - How many servings of fruit and veg a day do you think is being healthy? The general concenus of the group was that they thought about 3 or 4 servings of fruit and vege a day was suffient enough to be classified as healthy, they didn't seem to know the reccomended serving. - Put your hand up if you have 2-3 servings a day, 4-5 and 5-9. Ask a couple what sorts of food they eat. The majority of the group seemed to think they sat within the 2-3 and 4-5 category with only a few in the 5-9 - Tell them how many servings are actually recommended When they were told the reccomended serving was actually 5-9 they were quiet shocked - What sort of things can we do as people to help the environment become healthier? Ask a couple and discuss with them. Some of the ideas brought up by the children were planting more trees, not littering, saving water and recycling.
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At the end of the day I led another discussion to gain some valuable feedback on the program and activities we provided for the day. Not only did this discussion with the group give us feedback on how the actual day went it also gave us feedback as to whether the content of the activities actually got through to the students and if they learnt anything.

- What were two activities you enjoyed throughout the day? The main two activities that the students really seemed to enjoy were making the videos of health promotion and the circuit at the end of the day - What are two things that you think we should do different next time? The students mostly seemed to think that next time we should have more sport activities and some even said that we should do nothing different - What are two things that you learnt today? The feedback here was that students learnt the reccomended daily serving of fruit and vege is 5-9 and that you should exercise at least 2-3 times a week for at least 30mins each session to be healthy. They also learnt that you can get creative with healthy food such as the healthy pizzas. - Do you think you will change anything personally as a result of this day? Yes or no. If yes what? Students seemed to think they would eat more fruit and vegetables
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At the start of the day I also distributed evaluation sheets for the teachers so that we could get some good feedback from a teacher’s point of view on our day. This will also help us in being able to evaluate and reflect on strategic planning reporting on whether our goals were met. Since the teachers were not with us for the entire day I got them to evaluate the session they had seen.

The sheet basically had the statements shown below in a table with excellent, very good, good, fair and poor along the top and the teachers were asked to tick the appropriate box. - the effectiveness of the group - effectiveness and whether the day was worthwhile - relevance of the day - Activities provided - Content provided - Some comments for teaching points or any further comments.
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Judging from the qualitative feedback, in the form of surveys via group disscussions, recieved from the students and teachers the day was a success. The students really seemed to enjoy the day and the activities provided. The students were not only able to have fun they were also able to learn some valuable information about health and ways to change their lifestyle choices. At the start of the day the students didn't know the reccommended serving of fruit and vegetables per day and at the completetion of the day the students were able to recall the daily reccommended serving, showing that the students were able to learn from the day and the activities provided.

The activities provided throughout the day were of valuable content according to the qualitative feedback from teachers and students. The combination of sporting activities, healthy eating and health promotion activities was enough for the students to be able to learn and retain information and hopefully change their health behaviour in the future.