IPG Kampus Tun Abdul Razak, Kota Samarahan

WRITING (INDIVIDUAL)

NAMA PELAJAR : NILAM BT HJ SALLEH

NO KAD PENGENALAN : 670630-13-5560
KUMPULAN/ UNIT : PPGBM1611
NAMA MATA PELAJARAN: ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY (WAJ3102)
NAMA PENSYARAH : MR VASUDEVAN RAMASAMY
TARIKH SERAHAN : 30 JULY 2011

MY IDEAL SCHOOL CANTEEN

As a primary school teacher, I would like to see my students to have a wonderful time in school.
One of the best places to see them happy is when they are interacting with one another during the recess
time at the school canteen. This is the time that I felt so happy, just by watching them having a great
time with their friends while eating together. Therefore, it is my wish that they have the best foods,
facilities and services at the canteen.

I have always been dreaming about having an ideal school canteen for my school. It has to have
the most modern with up-to-date facilities and spacious place with beautiful tables and comfortable
chairs that can accommodate every student in the school. It has clean tiled flooring with beautiful
curtains and decorated nicely with paintings like those found in exclusive restaurants. The canteen is
totally enclosed with fully air-conditioned to provide a cool and conducive environment for students to
enjoy their foods without sweating.

The canteen should provide soft romantic music for to lighten up the mood and televisions are
also being provided at various locations so that students can keep up with current news or occasionally
watched Upin & Ipin cartoons.

A variety of foods should be served at the canteen comprised of Malay, Chinese and Indian
dishes as to provide a 1Malaysia ambiance. The menu includes a main dish that should be varied
everyday i.e. like Lontong on Monday, Penang Laksa on Tuesday, Mee Kari on Wednesday,
Thursday with Chicken Rice and on Friday with Nasi Beriani.

The canteen also provides tidbits like sour plums, sweets and snacks sold to students so that it
can help them from feeling drowsiness and boredom in the classroom. The canteen should also provide
a reasonably priced fresh fruit juices such as apples, oranges and watermelons to quench their thirst.

Parent Teacher Association should play an active role to ensure the school canteen provide a
well-balanced and healthy food. Dietitian should be invited to check on the food that is being served so
that students are guaranteed to eat nutritious food. Health inspector also should regularly come to
examine if the food is being prepared in a healthy manner so that students will not get food poisoning.
Students also should be inculcating about eating the right food for their health.

Parent Teacher Association also should make an action at providing free or subsidized food for
the needy. The students from poor family should also be taken care so that they too can have the same
benefit in the school. It is not easy to concentrate in their studies with an empty stomach. It is nice if the
parents can come during recess time to eat with their children and bring home cooked food.

The canteen should also be served by pleasant looking and polite canteen workers. They should
be friendly and ever willing to help the students and always serve the students with a smile. There
should be adequate workers serving the students so that the students don't have a long time to wait for
their foods since the recess time is not that long. The canteen should be located at the center of the
school. This is to ensure that all of the students have ample time to spend at the canteen without rushing
for time.

As a teacher, I would regularly approach the headmaster to bring some changes to the present
canteen. There are many changes that should have taken place but because of budgets and other
constrains it cannot be fulfilled. So I hope one day, my dream of an ideal school canteen can be realized.