Well Being Day 1 - 2011/2012
Summer Experience Weeks 2011
Students to Visit Villarreal CF
Our Under 14, Under 15, and Under 16 football squads have traveled to Spain during Easter 2011 as guests of Villarreal CF where they are attending a training camp and playing against the club’s youth teams.
Humanities Germany and Poland Trip
We are all getting very excited as the big day gets closer when we finally make our way to Germany and Poland! It’s going to be a brilliant trip and if you have been given a password for our blog you can click here to follow us http://humanitiestrip.posterous.com/. If you don't have a password don't worry, we plan to put the best bits online when we return."
Living Cities
We are launching our Living Cities experience week with years 7 and 8 on Monday 7th February.
By 2020 it is estimated that 80% of the world’s population will live in a City of some size or shape. Students in the Junior Learning Village will spend the week exploring Cities through a number of different perspectives: Architecture and Building; Living with Others; Sustainable Living; Staying Healthy in an Urban Environment; Arts and Entertainment; and How Cities Work. They will manage their own learning by choosing which workshops they wish to attend, and at the end of the week they will create websites to show what they have learnt.
Well Being Day 2
Year 7 Democracy Day
Our First Wellbeing Day 2010
English Meet Macbeth
English students had the opportunity to visit Alnwick Castle to watch a live performance of Macbeth before meeting the cast of the show.
The department are planning a similar trip to Newcastle soon to see Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra.
Drama’s exciting array of events
Drama have a few exciting events coming up soon.
The Christmas Concert is coming up on the 16th Dec.
The school show (Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor dream coat) is on 5th-7th April 2011.
Drama also run an acting residential to New York in which the pupils will work with professionals from the industry in The Actor’s studio. This will take place on the 25-29th April 2011.
St James Park Welcomes Cramlington Games Designers
In our personal challenge week some of our students were challenged to design and create a computer game. As part of this they were lucky enough to visit St James Park to review games design training from professionals.
Tonight Matthew we’re going to be wearing wigs!
Rock school has started up again and our wannabe Rock Starts will be working hard all year in preparation for their end of year gig.
The themes in the past have been Rock School vs Guitar Hero with an xbox on stage plugged into the big screen in the hub, last year was US vs UK number ones and the theme for this year is…
“Tonight Matthew we’re going to be wearing wigs.”
The concert will be just before Easter (April 14th) and each group will take on the personas members of a famous band via the medium of wigs. They will then de-wig and reveal their true identities, and perform a song of their own.
There is a rumour (although it may only be a rumour) that a staff band may be making a guest appearance in the concert.
In the Field
Fieldtrips for Geography: 1st and 5th Oct - Metro Centre
Stay tuned for some KS5 trips!
The Humanities annual trip to Poland/Germany will take place April 16th – 23rd
Fusion radio visits BBC Studios
Cramlington’s home grown presenters of FusionRadio did some research just before the summer holidays. Matthew, Adam and Jonny all visited the BBC Studios in Newcastle for a guided tour of both the TV and Radio studios. The were lucky enough to get the opportunity to pick the brains of professional presenters who were able to give them plenty of advice they can use in the school radio station.
FusionRadio currently broadcasts over four lunch times each week, some of these shows are live and all are available as podcasts on the FusionRadio website. Executive producer, Matthew demonstrated his initiative by arranging the visit and during the tour the students were praised for asking the best questions there had ever been on a school visit. That is no surprise from these three students who saw this visit as a great opportunity to learn from the best and spent a great deal of time deciding exactly what they wanted to find out during the visit.
What did the team learn? What do they want to achieve next year having seen what the professionals do? Here are the thoughts of the team from the meeting they had on their return from the visit:
From Our Trip To BBC Newcastle We Learn't...
- What Equipment Is Used
- Some of the roles that people have in TV and Radio
- What software is used
- It's best to be relaxed when your on air (Stay Cool)
- News sources and weather (Met Office)
- What equipment is used in the studios (TV & Radio)
- Depending on what audience you have you need to adapt
- If you get stuck, just stay calm and think of something to say
- Be prepared for anything to happen
- Good to get audience involved and have guest
- Be resourceful and use what you've got
- Regular Live Broadcasts
- ENP (WinPlus)
- Microphones
- Double Screen
- Track System
- Radio Mixing Desk
- Texts/Telephone
- Broadcasting Licence (DAB)
