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The New Year - a late welcome back

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

OK it’s week 4 of the term but welcome back to the new year anyway ….
Well it’s been a few weeks since we’ve updated the blog so a fair bit to add now. Firstly we were really pleased with the GCSE and A level results in the department this year - they were the […]

Getting ready for a new year

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Well, everyone’s on holiday now (except for the technicians in ICT who are setting up for the new year).
So … what to do while on holiday? There’s a new ICT room being set up for Applied Art in room 41, new computers in food Tech and in textiles and the science labs will have […]

Year 11 Revision booklet on google

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

During this week we have been creating the BCS revision glossary using Google docs.  How easy/hard did you find it to do? Were there any problems with using it?  How much do you think it will help your revision?
 Use your digitalbrain (thomasadams.net) usernames when you comment.
Thanks
 RG, MNT, MJH

year 9 podcasting

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Now that you have chosen your groups and started to create your work on the podcast - how about an update?  Why not share your topics and what progress you are making with the rest of hte year so they can see what to expect when they click on the podcasts!!
Remember to use your Thomasadams […]

…. and more changes

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Well, it’s half-term and we’re changing again.  This time it’s Mrs Atwal who is leaving to become 2nd in department at the Abraham Darby school in Telford.  We’re always sorry to see people go but hope that she’ll be really happy in her new school.  Watch this space because that means we’ll be getting another […]

year 8 websites

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Well we’re back into the new year and the year 8 website unit is almost complete.  Use this post to add your comments about the unit - how hard/easy was it?  Did you enjoy it and why?  What did you do well?  How could you make it better? - Remember to use your username for […]

Big change in ICT

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Well it’s Christmas and Mrs Medlicott is leaving us to take up a new job in Bishop’s Castle. Mrs M is really going to be missed and will be a hard act to follow! All today pupils have been coming up to say goodbye.
In January we have a new teacher Mrs Colgan […]

Adding sound to projects

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Today Year 9 have been using the Audacity program to record sound and save mp3s for later playing. this will be used for podcasts in the future - probably on the school website.
Audacity can be downloaded for free from sourceforge - the link is here http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Who is unbiased anyway? (for year 8)

Friday, October 6th, 2006

For the first few weeks of the year, you have been studying what is meant by bias and working out how to tell if a web site is reliable.   Tell us what you think of the work you have done - was it interesting?  could it be better?  did you share any ideas with anyone […]

Year 9 communicating

Friday, September 15th, 2006

We are getting some presentations ready about different types of communication - including blogs!  You could leave a comment here about your topic and about what you think of the presentations you’ve seen.