PART 2

Good morning and thank you for coming here today.

早上好。感谢大家今天来这里。

I'd like to bring you up to date with changes in the school that will affect your children.

我想向您介绍一下学校的最新变化，这些变化会影响到您的孩子。

As you know, the school buildings date from various times: some from the 1970s, some from the last five years, and of course Dartfield House is over a century old.

如您所知，学校的建筑可以追溯到不同的时代：有的是上世纪70年代的，有的是五年前建成的。当然达特菲尔德之家已经有一个多世纪的历史了。

It was commissioned by a businessman, Neville Richards, and intended as his family home, but he died before it was completed.

商人内维尔·理查兹委托建造这栋建筑，并打算住在这里。但是他在竣工之前去世了。

His heir chose to sell it to the local council, who turned it into offices.

他的继承人把它卖给地方议会，后者把它变成了办公室。

A later plan to convert it into a tourist information centre didn't come about, through lack of money, and instead it formed the nucleus of this school when it opened 40 years ago.

后来，由于缺乏资金，将其改造成旅游信息中心的计划没有实现。40年前，这所学校成立，这栋建筑成为了学校的中心。

The school has grown as the local population has increased, and I can now give you some news about the lower school site, which is separated from the main site by a road.

随着当地人口的增加，这所学校也在发展。我现在要给大家介绍下低年级学校的一些情况，它与主校址之间有一路之隔。

Planning permission has been granted for development of both sites.

两个校址的开发计划已经得到批准。

The lower school will move to new buildings that will be constructed on the main site.

在主校址上将建起新的大楼，低年级学校会迁往那里。

Developers will construct houses on the existing lower school site.

开发商将在现有的低年级校址上建造房屋。

Work on the new school buildings should start within the next few months.

新校舍的工程将在今后几个月内开始。

A more imminent change concerns the catering facilities and the canteen.

涉及餐饮设施和食堂的改造更加迫切。

The canteen is always very busy throughout the lunch period – in fact it's often full to capacity, because a lot of our pupils like the food that's on offer there.

整个午餐时间，食堂总是非常繁忙。事实上，食堂经常爆满，因为我们的很多学生都喜欢那里提供的食物。

But there's only one serving point, so most pupils have to wait a considerable time to be served.

但是只有一个供餐点，大多数学生要等相当长的时间才能得到餐食。

This is obviously unsatisfactory, as they may have hardly finished their lunch before afternoon lessons start.

这显然不能令人满意，因为在下午的课开始之前，他们可能还没吃完午饭。

So we've had a new Food Hall built, and this will come into use next week.

所以我们建了一个食品大厅，将在下周投入使用。

It'll have several serving areas, and I'll give you more details about those in a minute, but one thing we ask you to do, to help in the smooth running of the Food Hall, is to discuss with your children each morning which type of food they want to eat that day, so they can go straight to the relevant serving point.

区域内将有几个供餐区，我马上会给您介绍更多关于这些的细节。但是我们需要您完成一件事来帮助食品大厅的顺利运作，就是和您的孩子讨论他们每天早上想吃哪种食物，这样他们就可以直接去相关的供餐点。

There won't be any junk food – everything on offer will be healthy – and there's no change to the current system of paying for lunches by topping up your child's electronic payment card online.

我们不会提供任何垃圾食品，供应的都将是健康的食物。而且目前的午餐支付系统没有任何改变，都是通过在线为孩子的电子支付卡充值来支付。

You may be wondering what will happen to the old canteen.

您可能想知道原来的食堂会变成什么样。

We'll still have tables and chairs in there, and pupils can eat food from the Food Hall or lunch they've brought from home.

餐厅中仍设有桌子和椅子，从家里带饭或者在食品区买饭的学生可以在这里用餐。

Eventually we may use part of the canteen for storage, but first we'll see how many pupils go in there at lunchtime.

最终，我们可能会用食堂的一部分作为储藏室，但首先我们要看看午餐时间在这里用餐的学生数量。

OK, back to the serving points in the Food Hall, which will all have side dishes, desserts and drinks on sale, as well as main courses.

好的，聊回食品大厅的供餐点，那里都有配菜、甜点和饮料，还有主菜。

One serving point we call World Adventures.

其中一个供餐点叫做“世界探险”。

This will serve a different country's cuisine each day, maybe Chinese one day and Lebanese the next.

这里每天供应不同国家的菜肴，可能是第一天中国菜，第二天是黎巴嫩菜。

The menus will be planned for a week at a time, so pupils will know what's going to be available the whole of that week.

菜单是按周设计的，这样学生就知道那一周都有什么菜。

Street Life is also international, with food from three particular cultures.“

街头生活”提供的也是国际化的食物，来自三种不同的文化。

We'll ask pupils to make suggestions, so perhaps sometimes there'll be food from Thailand, Ethiopia and Mexico, and then one of them will be replaced by Jamaican food for a week or two.

我们会让学生们提出建议，所以有时这里会提供泰国、埃塞俄比亚和墨西哥的食物，然后接下来一两周其中一种会被换成牙买加食物。

The Speedy Italian serving point will cater particularly for the many pupils who don't eat meat or fish: they can be sure that all the food served there is suitable for them.

意大利供餐点将特别迎合那些不吃肉或鱼的学生。可以确定的是，这里提供的所有食物都很适合他们。

There'll be plenty of variety, so they shouldn't get bored with the food.

这里菜品种类多样，所以他们不应该感到厌烦。

OK, that's all on the new Food Hall.

好了，以上就是我对于食品大厅的全部介绍。

Now after-school lessons.

现在来介绍课后课程。

These are very popular with pupils, particularly swimming – in fact there's a waiting list for lessons.

这些课程很受学生欢迎，尤其是游泳。事实上，很多课程的名额都不够了。

Cycling is another favourite, and I'm delighted that dozens of pupils make use of the chance to learn to ride in off-road conditions.

另一门最受欢迎的是骑行，我很高兴有几十个学生利用这个机会在越野条件下学习骑自行车。

It means that more and more cycle to and from school every day.

这意味着每天越来越多的学生骑车上下学。

As you know, we have a well-equipped performance centre, and we're going to start drama classes in there, too.

如您所知，我们有一个设备齐全的表演中心，我们也将在那里开办戏剧课。

Pupils will be able to join in just for fun or work up to taking part in a play – we hope to put on at least one a year.

学生们可以只是出于乐趣参与，也可以扮演戏剧中的一个角色。我们希望每年能够上演至少一部戏剧。

We already teach a number of pupils to use the sound and lighting systems in the centre.

我们已经教一些学生使用中心的音响和灯光系统。

And a former pupil has given a magnificent grand piano to the school, so a few pupils will be able to learn at the school instead of going to the local college, as many of them do at the moment.

另外，之前在这里就读的一位学生给学校赠送了一架华丽的的三角钢琴，所以，少数目前在当地大学学习钢琴的学生可以在本校练习。