Reports

Healthy meals from the canteen!!

Reporters: Bethany and Alicia, Year 7 News Team
Photographs: Lauren and Sophie, Year 7 Camera Team

We decided to do a report on healthy meals at Rainham School for girls. We interviewed a dinner lady who also cooks and makes the food.

She says roughly 500 people buy the canteen food; the most popular foods they buy are cakes and sandwiches and the most popular drink is milkshakes. They sell vegetarian dishes, meat dishes and jacket potatoes with fillings. The healthy and unhealthy foods are the same prices. Finally, the dinner lady said all the foods were made on the school site.

We also decided to interview the students and one of the teachers. Firstly, we interviewed Mrs Sambrook head of Year 8; we asked her how often she eats in the canteen. She said she eats in there every day.

I love the lasagna and salad, followed by the bread and butter pudding. I think the healthy foods should be cheaper than the unhealthy foods.

We also interviewed a year 7 student. She said she doesn’t eat in the canteen often, although she thinks the foods are quite nice.

What a Beauty!

Reporter: Kathryn, Year 7 News Team

A baby elephant has made her first debut at Howletts Animal Park. Her name is Uzuri which means ‘beauty’. She was born on February 17th in the zoo in Kent.

The calf, weighing estimated 70-80 kilos. Now a lucky 9 baby elephants have been born at Howletts Zoo and baby Uzuri has brought the herd up to 13. Zoo keepers at the zoo are very delighted because an African elephant is very difficult to breed in captivity.

Thanks to Dave Rolfe for the photograph

Elephant keeper Liz Rickard who was present for the birth, said, ‘the baby is adjusting very well to it new surroundings and family, gaining the usual 3-5 kilos a week.’

Sweet Smelling Success

Reported by Stacey, Year 7 News Team
Photographs by Year 7 Photographers

In February, Year 11 students at Rainham School for Girls took part in an enterprise project with the help of the Body Shop organization. The students in teams with experienced Body Shop representatives as advisors.

Each team had to create its own fragrance. Two year 11s, Ella and Chloe, said “We didn’t have to make our own cream. We were given one, but we had to decide on our own fragrance. We had 4 testers and 1 final version. We were allowed to take one home each.”

Another group said that they all wanted their fragrance to be sweet and would like their fragrance to be attractive to girls. Two of the fragrances they created were Lemon Grass and Ocean.