Creative and Media Diploma- Trip to Eel Pie Island.
Blog written by Ms Jacob, Head of Art
On Thursday the 28th January, the twelve Creative and Media Diploma students embarked on a trip to Eel Pie Island to undertake two challenges for their course. They had a lecture on global warming and climate change and were briefed by the head of the company to create a drama performance as part of a campaign to educate students about the effects of global warming.
On Thursday the 28th January, the twelve Creative and Media Diploma students embarked on a trip to Eel Pie Island to undertake two challenges for their course. They had a lecture on global warming and climate change and were briefed by the head of the company to create a drama performance as part of a campaign to educate students about the effects of global warming.
The students then participated in a creative writing workshop by scriptwriter Annie Siddons. The students were extremely creative and came up with various ideas for a performance. Annie was so impressed that she wants to come back and work with the students further on their project.
Later the students were introduced to the photography brief - “sustainability of the environment in the borough of Richmond”. Joseph, the Eel Pie Island organizer, discussed the importance of making the public aware of the local environment and to show what individuals and groups are doing to preserve the environment. The students were told that images would have to be: technically adept; memorable and well composed; show creative thinking; and have an environmental theme. Richard Clements, a professional photographer from friends of the Crane Environment discussed what made a good photograph and showed examples of his work.
The students were well motivated and are looking forward to developing their skills in photography. The trust is holding a competition set by the Environmental Trust will and the winner will be decided at their general meeting on June 10th 2010.
Look out for the students’ performance on climate change towards the end of the term.
Students were… Aaron , Joseph , Charlie , Skye , Aicha , Rashidah , Marissa , Leila , Audreyce , Charlie, Claire and Fernada.
Ms Bowe, our new librarian, writes about the exciting work which is going on at the moment:
We celebrated World Book Day in the library and all the Year seven classes came in during one of their English lessons. I read them some extracts from the specially published books and gave them the vouchers to buy them with,. The children all got their book club magazines and were shown the current competitions in the library. The Year sevens then had a good rummage through all the new books, each taking one out to read and all getting a new Garfield bookmark as a gift from the library – these all have messages on from Garfield such as “Look after your books, read with clean paws!”
We currently are inviting the children to design a book mark which will win them small prizes in school but nationally the chance to win £100 in book tokens and for their design to be made up and sold in shops nationwide. There are Easter eggs up for grabs before I send them off for judging in the national competition!
We also have our “Bedlam Cube” in the library – a fiendish logic cube puzzle which the children are queuing up to try and complete to win Easter Eggs – even the staff haven’t been able to crack this puzzle yet, though Ms. Booth has tried a few times!! New Where’s Wally posters round the library are making it brighter and groups of kids are crowding round them to find Wally.
The library continues to be getting busier and so we have introduced a rota system where first break is for years 7,8 and 9 and second break is for years 10 and 11. This has limited the massive numbers in here all at once and makes it a bit easier for me to manage! New books are still coming on to the shelves courtesy of the PTA grant and the loans from the library have increased 600% since November! Another busy month in the library which hopefully will get even busier!!
Did you know – last April the library loaned out 13 books – this March I have loaned out 235 books already!
Later the students were introduced to the photography brief - “sustainability of the environment in the borough of Richmond”. Joseph, the Eel Pie Island organizer, discussed the importance of making the public aware of the local environment and to show what individuals and groups are doing to preserve the environment. The students were told that images would have to be: technically adept; memorable and well composed; show creative thinking; and have an environmental theme. Richard Clements, a professional photographer from friends of the Crane Environment discussed what made a good photograph and showed examples of his work.
The students were well motivated and are looking forward to developing their skills in photography. The trust is holding a competition set by the Environmental Trust will and the winner will be decided at their general meeting on June 10th 2010.
Look out for the students’ performance on climate change towards the end of the term.
Students were… Aaron , Joseph , Charlie , Skye , Aicha , Rashidah , Marissa , Leila , Audreyce , Charlie, Claire and Fernada.
Ms Bowe, our new librarian, writes about the exciting work which is going on at the moment:
We celebrated World Book Day in the library and all the Year seven classes came in during one of their English lessons. I read them some extracts from the specially published books and gave them the vouchers to buy them with,. The children all got their book club magazines and were shown the current competitions in the library. The Year sevens then had a good rummage through all the new books, each taking one out to read and all getting a new Garfield bookmark as a gift from the library – these all have messages on from Garfield such as “Look after your books, read with clean paws!”
We currently are inviting the children to design a book mark which will win them small prizes in school but nationally the chance to win £100 in book tokens and for their design to be made up and sold in shops nationwide. There are Easter eggs up for grabs before I send them off for judging in the national competition!
We also have our “Bedlam Cube” in the library – a fiendish logic cube puzzle which the children are queuing up to try and complete to win Easter Eggs – even the staff haven’t been able to crack this puzzle yet, though Ms. Booth has tried a few times!! New Where’s Wally posters round the library are making it brighter and groups of kids are crowding round them to find Wally.
The library continues to be getting busier and so we have introduced a rota system where first break is for years 7,8 and 9 and second break is for years 10 and 11. This has limited the massive numbers in here all at once and makes it a bit easier for me to manage! New books are still coming on to the shelves courtesy of the PTA grant and the loans from the library have increased 600% since November! Another busy month in the library which hopefully will get even busier!!
Did you know – last April the library loaned out 13 books – this March I have loaned out 235 books already!
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