We were excited to have been short-listed for an award in the Outstanding Contribution category for our contribution to National Science and Engineering Week. We actually won the award for our Science Showcase at the Metro Centre - well done to Mrs Collin and all others involved!
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11th March 2010 was BBC School Report day, where the BBC open up their news feeds to school pupils all across the country. We took 7 students to Gateshead CLC where they worked with professional standard TV and Radio recording equipment to produce some fantastic news reports. It was a fantastic success, we even made the 6 o'clock news!
Our students produced a video looking at education in the present, this fit into their LIVE web broadcast where they interviewed Noel Jackson from the Life centre in Newcastle.
Some of our students were involved in a news report created by the BBC and shown on the 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock national news! We also had a couple of students interview Maggie Atkinson live on the radio.
Congratulations to Year 8 pupils David Gordon, Carly Ivers, Dionne O'Brien, and Victoria Mogford who successfully won the final of Heworth CLC's Animation Competition. Competing against Cardinal Hume, Lord Lawson and Heworth Grange in the final, having battled through the earlier heats of the competition in December.
The Pupils were challenged to create backdrop's, storyboards, and Digital Stop motion animations (created using 'I Can Animate') based on an environmental theme. The completed animations were finished by adding soundtracks including sound effects and music (created using Garage band). The films were independently judged and marked; Links to the theme, Storyboard sketches, Animation Quality and originality, Backdrops, Sound Effects and Music. Each pupil received 'I Can Animate' software for the school and each other as well as a digital camcorder for the Art department. Well done.
30 year 10 pupils from G&T and Aim Higher cohort went to London for a weekend.
Activities included:
• Sightseeing - Buckingham palace, House of Winsor, Trafalgar Square and lots more
• Ride on London Eye
• Visit the Science museum
• Going to theatre to see shows- Lion king and Hairspray
• Evening meals - Hard rock café and Planet Hollywood
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