BBC School Report News Day

BBC News school report was a big success here at Bemrose School.
The students from year 8 worked very hard to produce some excellent news
reports in a short time frame, just like the real thing.

They produced written reports, audio reports and video reports on many
different stories ranging from school, local, national and international
news.

With the help from BBC Radio Derby, teachers and the computer and media guys
the students were able to experience what it is like to produce relevant
news reports appropriate to different audiences in time for them to be put
out "live" via our website to the world!!

The schools reporting was so good that 5 students have been asked to go down
to London to the Television Centre to be shown around the centre and attend
an awards ceremony hosted by Huw Edwards and Mark Byford. More information
and pictures on this will be published soon after the event on May 17th.

Fran Harlow
ICT Coach

Celebrate Success

Ya Ya, 16, from Derby, came to the UK unable to speak English and separated from his parents. Disorientated and feeling isolated, he found it very difficult to integrate into a youth culture that bore no resemblance to that of his home country.

xl provided the support that Ya Ya needed to help him organise his thoughts and ideas, as well as improve his written and communication skills. Ya Ya flourished and soon was engaged in all of xl's activities; in particular being involved in the highly successful 'Secret Service for Students' – a student-led agony aunt service.

Since then, Ya Ya has been inspirational; he has enrolled at his school's sixth form college and in the meantime puts his skills to good use by working with another xl club member to undertake projects in the community and help others to avoid the pull of being led into trouble.

Read the article on the Prince's Trust website....

 

 

Derbyshire Crimebeat Art Competition

Thank you for making your entries into the Art Competition in December 2006.

We are please to annnounce that over 200 entries from young people across the county were received by the Derbyshire Crimebeat Selection Panel.

The following entries from Bemrose Community School were awarded prizes:

 

Hayley Currie & Lucy Ngoma		CD Rap Song		£100
Saphisara Ingthasong & Stanislava Okov		Poem/Story		£100
Sidhra Akhtar & Maimuna Aslam		Art/Story		£100
Khuram Ali & James MacDonald		Booklet		£50
Ikiyoj Nijran & Daniel MaGuire		Poem		£50
Bemrose School will also be awarded				£50

 

Young Citizen's Passport Competition

I am delighted to inform you that Year 11 student Arooj Shameem as won a prize in the Young Citizen's Passport Competition.

The six winners will be visiting London to tour the Houses of Parliament, hhave a meeting with Labour MP Bob Laxton and attend the Prime Minister's Question Time with lunch at the House of Commons. They will also enjoy a ride on the London Eye and a walk across Trafalgar Square and Whitehall.

Congratulations Arroj!

Announcing BBC News School Report

On 22nd March 2007, students at Bemrose will be making news for real!
A Group of 12 and 13-year-olds have been working with the BBC to train up as School Reporters.

They will bring you exlcusive news of events happening in the school, in the community, across the UK and around the world.

If you’ve got a great idea for a story, please write it down and pass it on to Mr. Harlow in Computer & Media Services. Make sure to add www.bemroseschool.org.uk to your favourites so you can check back with us in the future.

Cycle to School Day

We are organising a cycle to school day on Wednesday 17th Jan. The purpose is to promote cycling as a choice for how students travel to and from school.

Dave Clasby, the Bike It Officer will be in the bike sheds on the morning of Weds 17th Jan to collect the names of students who cycle to school. In order to have your name entered in the draw you will need to have your bike with you, even if then you leave it at the front of school.

All students who cycle to school on the day will receive a free gift. Student names will be entered into a draw where cycle related prizes could be won.

Dave will spend the day checking the bikes, providing a report and possibly even fixing small problems.

Please can all students ensure they have permission from an adult they live with before cycling to school?

All bikes need to be roadworthy, especially working brakes and pumped up tyres. If cycling when dark lights will be needed.

Cycle to school as often as you want to.

Free BMX coaching session Sat 20th Jan at Alvaston BMX track, consent form Dave on Weds 17th.

Macmillan Cancer Support

Thank you to everyone who supported the collection in lieu of Christmas cards. I have been able to send £143.61 to Macmillan Cancer Support. Happy New Year!

Bemrose Students Meet BBC Ready Steady Cook Chefs

In October, during British Food Week, we entered the Pyrex Cooking Challenge. This involved showing how we used British food in our lessons. It was at this time that our school garden was producing lots of fruits and mostly vegetables. Year 9 were shown the garden in several of the lessons, followed by a lesson in making dishes that used produce from the garden. This was recorded and the information was entered in the competition. In early November we were told we had won the East Midlands regional final and were to receive £250 worth of equipment for the school.

Pictured (in no particular order)
Mrs Hegarty, Natalie Milner, Aysha Begum, Anjulee Patel, Gulshan Altaf, Mrs. J West, Celebrity Chef Lesley Waters.

A week later we had a phone call from London to inform us we had won the national competition. Six staff and pupils were entertained by Pyrex to an all expenses paid trip to London on Wednesday 6th December. The Hard Rock Café was the location for lunch, followed by a trip to the Hard Rock Cafe Museum. We hailed a taxi, to the London Eye, another taxi, to the BBC studios, where we met one of the judges, Lesley Waters. Afterwards we were part of the audience of Ready Steady Cook which will be shown on Boxing Day. A very memorable day was had by all.

We still have £750 worth of equipment arriving at the school for use in food lessons.

Updated Website Makes Browsing Easier

Our website as been updating adding cutting edge dynamic webpage technology to allow users easier navigation and a better experience than before. You can now take advantage of some of this technology in key areas of the website. We have implemented different technologies listed below.

Front Page
The front page has been simplified to show just one area for current news articles. At the bottom of the larger news section are 2 naviagtional arrows/buttons for switching backwards and forwards between the existing articles. In the bottom right the current article and total article number is displayed.

News Archive (This Page)
Now newer articles are displayed by default. At the bottom of the current articles resides a link "Older News", pressing this will instantly extend the page to display older news appended to the bottom of the current news. This allows less complex browsing and the need to display longer pages.

Contact Page
Now on the contact page contact information displayed in the right sub-column is collapsed simply clicking the type of information you wish to see will reveal it instantly. This allows you to focus on the specific information you require.