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。