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Welcome...

Today I used the blog to show a group how to work with QR codes.

I'd be really interested to see who knows what QR stands for...

It's really obvious when you think about it.

Year 10 Lego representations... GUESS WHO?

It's always a favourite task- see if you can guess who with the Lego representations...

Then remind yourself of the Learning Point...

Media Representations:

If LEGO is the MEDIUM

And YOU are being represented

Then the LEGO is a MEDIA REPRESENTATION of you.

The representation of you is flawed, because the medium is never perfect or "real" enough- and you made a choice about how to represent yourself, from the limited bricks you had.

This is true of all media: TV, news, documentary, film or...Lego

Year 11 revision and course work

Year 11 can catch up their coursework with Mrs Bonnington on Mondays and Wednesdays after school.
Mrs Whyte is around any lunchtime by appointment, but always on a Wednesday and Thursday.

Well done year 10 on your excellent behaviour at BBC TVC on Tuesday, you were amazing!


Well done yr 13 on your MEST1 January exam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HUmrDa5PPE

This is the text that was in the exam...

BBC Trip

Remember that BBC trip money and consent forms must be in ASAP! We leave school at 7am, so you need to be early.


You need lunch and warm, waterproof clothes, but no school uniform. 


We should be back in time for buses, but might not quite make it, so ensure you've got a back up plan, and a parent on standby!


There's a BBC shop and also a Starbucks and Tesco Express if you'd like to buy snacks and drinks.

Lego representations

Mrs Whyte's year 10s used Lego as the medium to create representations of themselves. This brilliant idea came courtesy of Mr Adam. We had a fun 10 minutes using the bricks to build representations of ourselves which, unsurprisingly, looked nothing like us...

The problem with our Lego representations seemed to be that they weren't true because none of us were quite the same colour or shape as our new plastic friends.

So, what did we learn?

When we see a person on TV, we're only really seeing a representation of them. Just as we choose the Lego bricks to represent us, a producer chooses which aspects of a person to focus on in order to represent them.