Thursday, 18 June 2009

TA Training


This week teaching staff from Wyndcliffe Primary School attended a CPD session for 'ICT in the classroom'.
The session in which T/A's explored a combination of online resources to support their year groups and curriculum areas. These included creating vodcasts, games and resources both online and portable. These resources could be used to support the creation of displays and build on pupils exsisting knowledge in subject areas.
The sesion was aimed at providing opportunities to support the Excellence and Enjoyment Initiatives. Feed back was excellent and follow up sessions will be done online to support this training.


Friday, 12 June 2009

Art Rage in Portraits


This week pupils from Calthorpe school visited the centre to take part in a Digital Portrait session using ArtRage. Each pupil went through steps using a graphic tablet and pen to create a portrait of themselves.
By inserting a photograph of the pupil as tracing paper each pupil went over the outline of their face and then added colour. They worked really hard and created some beautiful pieces.


Also this week pupils from Al-Hijrah Secondary School attending various ICT sessions learning different aspects of Photoshop, Spreadsheets and Access Databases.

Friday, 5 June 2009

Live Radio Show with Russell Prue!



Today the CLC was utilised to run a live radio show with Year 8 pupils from six different schools within the Central and Oaks Collegiate.

The live radio show is based in the year 2050 and will give a perspective of what the students world will be like. The pupils will give reports on the news, sports and advertising features for that year.

The rehearsals were organised and actioned in excellent form by the pupils who were praised by Russell himself.

The live show is due to go live around 1530 today and Russell will be giving twittering updates throughout the day.

Robin Hood and his Merry Dancers


For the past couple of weeks the CLC staff have been supporting Calthorpe School in creating a Video depicting the adventures of Robin Hood.

The script was written and rehearsed by the pupils in preparation for the CLC to film the show. Filming took place using various equipment including the Green Screen facility. Once filming was completed it was then edited to create a finished video.

All the participating pupils were enthusiastic and worked really hard.

Also the CLC ran several Science Space Days where various schools attended to learn how an astronaut lives in space by trying out various activities.