Five-A-Day

Your assignment this year focuses on the 5 A DAY healty eating program with an emphasis on a eating a variety of fruit and vegetables. You will check out what other people are already eating and produce a series of publications that target specific audiences and promote healthy eating.

Five a day.

Everyone should eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables every day. You shouldn't choose the same friut either, having five apricots or five portions of pineapple is not as good as mixing it up. It should be a mixture of fruit and veg. If they are divided into different colour groups, then aiming for one from each group each day is a good way to ensure a variety.

You will create a Five A Day Check for school children and students aged 11 and over. You will create a spreadsheet to analyse the data and tell the users whether they are keeping to the Five a Day rule.

You will create a database called Five a Day which stores information about different fruit and vegetable portions, including their colour groupings. You will use it to extract useful information for the Five A Day Check users. Users of the Five A Day Check will receive a personalised Information Pack based on their results.

You will create some digital posters to encourage school children to eat healthier snacks and to try out your Five A Day Check. You will also design a DVD cover for the short film on healthy eating. Finally you will create a website to advertise healthy food and ways to eat more healthily.

Start by reading through the following pages to find out more about what you have to do.