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Friday, 13 December 2013

Should parents consider whether their child has been naughty or nice when buying Christmas presents?


What is considered nice?
What is considered naughty?  Can then redeem themselves?

Task:
Create a naughty and nice tick list for parents, add a point score for naughty/nice ticks, with a key that parents could use to identify the type of present their child should get!

Get a substantial list for both nice and naughty (at least 10 of each) and decide how many points they are worth.  What kind of presents would they get depending on their total score?

Example:
Nice
Naughty
Cleaned room regularly this year

Didn’t say good morning regularly

Helped an old lady/man cross the road

Got DTs at school

Made cup of tea for mum every week

Forgot to say thank you to parents


5 points for a Nice tick
-3 points for a Naughty tick

0-5:        Lump of coal & satsuma
6-10:      DVD
11-15:    Games console

Plenary:
Create a blog post on your own General Studies blogs, answering today's question with your own opinion and adding your tick list too.



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Sunday, 1 December 2013

Drive iQ - Driving Awareness modules

Over the next 2 weeks, you will work through material designed to prepare you for the driving.

How many of you are hoping to drive next year?  Motorcycles / cars?

These modules will prepare you for getting out on the road, for your theory test and ultimately safety on the road.

Drive iQ

Work through the modules at your own pace (approximately 2 a lesson)

Register with your school email:  09forename.surname@wildern.hants.sch.uk
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Christmas campaign - Stop drink driving

Watch the following adverts.  Can you find other examples?

TASK:
In groups of 3 or 4, you will plan a campaign and design resources for it.  Your campaign should be aimed at 17-24 year olds to persuade them not to drink and drive, especially over the Christmas/New Year holidays.

You need to create at least 3 different resources to support your campaign, these could include:
  • Television advert
  • Radio advert
  • Animation
  • Posters
  • Bumper stickers
  • Wristbands
  • Any other products you can think of
Deadline: Tuesday 17 December 2013, 4 x lessons: prizes for the best campaign in class / across classes.

You need a slogan, look here for some ideas:
Drink Driving Awareness slogans

Check out this campaign by Hampshire Constabulary 

Below are links to some storiesthat maybe useful for your campaign.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-25054251
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25053033
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-25032346
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24835192
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-24841039
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-24773237
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24644206
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Monday, 11 November 2013

Competition Time - Week beginning 11/11/13

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Sunday, 3 November 2013

Competition time Q7 - Week beginning 04/11/13

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Social Diversity Project

In the next 4 lessons, you will complete 3 tasks on the topic of Social Diversity, as per your sheets.

These tasks involve identifying, explaining and discussing topics within the area of Social Diversity.

Task 1: Social Structures
Choose one of the social structures below and generate an infographic that identifies four changes that have occured between the 1930s and present day:
  • The 'Family'
  • Opinions on ethnicity
  • Stereotyping
  • The community
  • Gender roles
4 Marks
This task is worth 4 marks, we are looking for FOUR ideas.

Task 2: Stereotypes
“Teenagers have never been so tapped into technology so much so that they can no longer interact socially”.

Explain the effects of technology on social interaction both positive and negative. Select one method of presentation from below:
  • Podcast (with script)
  • Movie
  • Animation
  • Prezi
8 Marks
This is an explain task, it requires some explanation/reasons. We are looking for FOUR ideas explained, both positive and negative.

Task 3: Gender Pay Gap
“In November 2012, The Fawcett Society said that women still earn 14.9% less on average than men for the same job. The warning coincided with a survey which suggested that a woman can earn £423,000 less than a man in her career”.

Discuss the reasons for and against the gender pay gap.

In your answer you may wish to consider:
  • the types of positions held by men and women
  • differences in the pay of jobs men typically go into as opposed to women
  • differences in amount of work experience
  • breaks in employment
As well as your own ideas.
18 Marks
This is a discuss task, it requires a well-argued discussion including a variety of points, both given and your own ideas.  Provide a balanced argument, both for and against the issue to evaluate effectively.

Notes:
Use the mark scheme to identify what is required for each task - aim high!

RESOURCES
Task 1:
Changing Family Structures
Families in Britain
Women's timeline
1930s stereotypes
Gender roles of 1930s

Task 2:
A - Is Technology helping or hurting our social skills?
B - Teen texting soars: will social skills suffer?
C - Technology positive and negative effects
D - How has technology affected our youth
E - Teenage brains in the online world
F - Video game addiction
G - Teenagers social interactions

Task 3:
A - UK National Statistics
B - Equal Pay Portal
C - Viewpoints: Should equal gender pay be enforced
D - Fawcett: Equal Pay
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Sunday, 20 October 2013

Family Structures


L/01 To understand what a family is?
L/02 To understand the changing nature of the family

Questions

What is a family?
What different types of families are there?
What are the functions of a family?

Task 1

Download this PPT file and answer the questions.

How have families changed over the years?




Key points to consider:
  • The changing nature of the family and its impact on everyday life
  • What factors affect family structures?
  • What is the future of the family?
Upload the completed PPT file to your blog.

Task 2

Create a stop frame animation similar to this on the family.

You can choose on of the following topics:
  • What are the functions of a family?
  • What are the different types of family?

Plenary

Showcase your work to class
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Friday, 18 October 2013

Competition time Q5 - Week beginning 21/10/13

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Thursday, 17 October 2013

Should Teachers strike?

Why are teachers striking?  What do you think of strike action?

BBC News - Teachers' Strike
Sky News - Teachers' Strike
Live updates on Teachers' Strike
Q&A on Teachers Strike

NASUWT
NUT

TASK:

Create a comic strip to show what you think the following people would be doing during a strike day:

  • A striking teacher
  • A primary school student whose teacher is striking
  • A working parent whose child(ren) are not in school due

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Sunday, 13 October 2013

Competition time - Week beginning 14/10/13

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Thursday, 10 October 2013

Should the England football team only have English players?

Pundits are fighting over who should be allowed to join the national football team. No foreign players should play for England, says midfielder Jack Wilshere – but who counts as foreign?

Wilshere in fresh row over England comments

BBC Sport articles:
Jack Wilshere
Arsene Wenger
FA attitude shift

The Telegraph - Wilshere is wrong

The Telegraph - Stick to your guns Wilshere

QUESTIONS:
  • Should footballers always play for the country where they were born?
  • Does your national football team deserve your support?  Why?
TASKS:
  • How do we define geographical identity?  Which is most important: neighbourhood, town or city, region, nation, continent or planet?
  • Write a definition of the term 'English', being as precise as you can.
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Earning or learning

The Prime Mister has said that a Conservative Government after 2015 will axe housing benefit and job seekers allowance for the under 25s if they do not take their chance to earn or learn.

BBC Three's Free Speech programme debated the idea of earning or learning for under 25s
BBC Three Free Speech - Earning or Learning: (16:03 - 27:44) available until Wed 16th October 2013

QUESTIONS:
  • What do you think of this scheme?  What are the advantages/disadvantages?
  • If you could vote in the 2015 general election, would this make you want to vote for the Conservatives?
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Zero Hour Contracts, good or bad?

The UK Labour Party has launched an attack on the increasingly common practice of employing workers without guaranteed hours or pay. Is workplace flexibility an excuse for exploitation?

Read more about the situation here:
Employers under fire over zero-hour contracts

An account of one person working on a zero hour contract:
This is what working on a zero hour contract looks like

A different opinion:
Why the fuss about zero hour contracts?

BBC Three's Free Speech programme recently debated the idea of zero hour contracts, view the programme here:
BBC Three Free Speech - Zero hour debate: (02:50 - 15:50) available until Wed 16th October 2013

The Labour party are expected to put forward plans to outlaw the exploitative use of zero hour contracts:
Ed Milliband's pledge to crackdown on zero hour contracts

QUESTIONS:

  • If you were offered a zero hours contract, would you accept?  Why?
  • Do you expect your experience of working life to be different to that of your parents' generation?  If so, how?
TASK:
Write a blog post about zero hours contracts from the perspective of either a worker or a boss.
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Health and Education - Substance abuse

L/01 To understand what substance abuse is
L/02 To understand why people abuse substances


Watch this video





Why would anyone take drugs?

  • Society pressures
  • Family bereavement
  • Financial problems


Discuss in pairs and share your answers with the class


Task 1

Look at the BBC Bitsize website on the topic of substance abuse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway_pre_2011/ourselves/4_drugs_and_you1.shtml


Choose one of these addictive substances: alcohol , prescription drugs, recreational drugs, tabaco.

Make a presentation encouraging people to not abuse these substances.

Ideas:
  • Video
  • Podcast
  • Poster - Postermyewall
Plenary

Take the Bitezise test

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Sunday, 6 October 2013

Competition time - Week beginning 07/10/13

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Friday, 4 October 2013

National Lottery Lotto ticket price doubles to £2 - should we scrap the lottery?

Lotto ticket prices are doubling this weekend. The National Lottery has raised £30 billion for sport, charity and the arts – but has it made Britain a nation of gamblers?

Scrap the lottery, say critics, as prices double

BBC report - National Lottery Lotto ticket price doubles to £2

How is lottery money distributed?

BigDeal - Get the facts about Gambling - teenagers

History or the lottery - BBC News 1994




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Thursday, 3 October 2013

Young people must earn or learn ?


Cameron promises 'land of opportunity' where young people must earn or learn

In keynote speech to Tory conference PM says under-25s will lose right to housing benefit and jobseeker's allowance
 Wednesday 2 October 2013 14.20 BST1708comments

Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent


Housing benefit and jobseeker's allowance will be denied to people under the age of 25 if the Tories win the next general election as part of a "bold" move to prepare school-leavers for a tougher economic world, David Cameron has said.

In one of the biggest shake-ups of the welfare system for young people, a majority Conservative government would strip school-leavers of the right to sign on to the dole and would tell those under the age of 25 they need to be "earning or learning".

Tory aides insisted that the proposal, aimed at around 1 million of the so called Neets who are not in training, education, employment or training, did not amount to a punitive crackdown on the young. Sources insisted that the prime minister's proposal was an illustration of his determination to prepare school-leavers for the "global race" in which Britain can succeed by becoming a "land of opportunity".

In his keynote speech to the Conservative conference, the prime minister said: "In place of the broken education system, one that gives every child the chance to rise up and succeed. Our economy, our society, welfare, schools all reformed, all rebuilt – with one aim, one mission in mind: to make this country, at long last and for the first time ever, a land of opportunity for all."

Downing Street said the speech was a development of the prime minister's pledge last year to create an "aspiration nation" and was not a response to Ed Miliband's speech to the Labour conference. Miliband alarmed many Tories with his populist pledge to freeze household fuel bills for the first 20 months in office.

But Cameron criticised Miliband for moving to the left. He described his plans to in increase corporation tax as a "damaging, nonsensical economic policy".

The prime minister also dismissed Miliband's pledge to introduce a freeze in energy prices for 20 months. He said: "We've heard Labour's ideas to help with the cost of living. Taxes on banks they want to spend 10 times over. Promising free childcare – then saying that actually, you've got to pay for it.

"An energy promise they admitted 24 hours later they might not be able to keep. It's all sticking plasters and quick fixes … cobbled together for the TV cameras. Red Ed and his Blue Peter economy."

No 10 sources said that the three themes of Cameron's speech – the economy, welfare and education – had been decided months ago and were not shaped by Miliband's speech. They said that the move to strip the under-25s of housing and other benefits should be seen as part of the prime minister's positive vision to prepare Britain for a tougher globalised economy.

Outlining his plan, the prime minister said: "There are still over a million young people not in education, employment, or training. Today it is still possible to leave school, sign on, find a flat, start claiming housing benefit and opt for a life on benefits.

"It's time for bold action here. We should ask, as we write our next manifesto, if that option should really exist at all. Instead we should give young people a clear, positive choice.

"Go to school. Go to college. Do an apprenticeship. Get a job. But just choose the dole? We've got to offer them something better than that. And let no one paint ideas like this as callous.

"Think about it: with your children, would you dream of just leaving them to their own devices, not getting a job, not training, nothing? No – you'd nag and push and guide and do anything to get them on their way … and so must we. So this is what we want to see: everyone under 25 earning or learning."

The move would mark an expansion of the workfare scheme outlined by George Osborne in his speech on Monday. People who have been unemployed for three years will be obliged to do more to find a job or risk the loss of benefits under the chancellor's plans.

The proposal could save as much as £2bn in housing benefit. This will help the Tories reach their target of achieving an absolute budget surplus by the end of the next parliament.

Tory sources said they would finalise their plans after a review that is being conducted by Sir Jeremy Heywood, the cabinet secretary. Tory sources said there would be exemptions for people coming out of care. Single mothers might also be exempted.

The Liberal Democrats vetoed a proposal last year by Iain Duncan Smith to withdraw housing benefit on a unilateral basis from those aged under 25. The Lib Dems may be more open to the new idea because it is linked to jobs, apprenticeships and education.

The prime minister used his speech to hark back to an earlier period in his leadership, in which he sought to shed the Tory image as the "nasty party", when he asked the conference to stand to applaud the role of social workers.

He said: "Social work is a noble and vital calling. I'll never forget how after my son Ivan was born, a social worker sat patiently in our kitchen and told us about the sort of help we might need. This government has helped get some of the brightest graduates into teaching and we have pledged to do the same for social work."
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Belgian helped to die after three sex change operations

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Wednesday, 2 October 2013

7 questions on the cost of living

How well can you do on this quiz?


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Tuesday, 1 October 2013

US Government Shutdown - resources

US government shutdown in 60 seconds

US in crisis as government shutdown triggered

Everything you need to know about how a government shutdown works   web link


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Monday, 30 September 2013

Competition time - Week beginning 30/09/13

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Friday, 27 September 2013

What opinions exist within society with respect to key moral & ethical issues?

England & Wales have a diverse representation of religions and cultures.  Below are graphs taken from the Census in 2011, identifying the most prominent religions represented in England & Wales.

Religious Affiliation, England & Wales, 2011
Source: Census - Office for National Statistics

Minority religious groups, England & Wales, 2011
Source: Census - Office for National Statistics

Today, you will be looking at some sensitive subject matter, key moral and ethical issues.  You may have your own strong opinions on each of the issues, and will have an opportunity to express these on your blog later.  Firstly, you need to research the top 5 religions, as identified above, as to their beliefs.

Task: Create a table for your research.  You will need columns for the following issues:

  • Capital Punishment
  • Euthanasia
  • Drugs (usage & legalisation)
  • Abortion
  • Medical research
You will need a row for the top 5 religions represented in England & Wales as well as a definition row for each of the issues. For example:


Beliefs
Capital Punishment
Euthanasia
Drugs (usage & legalistation)
Abortion
Medical Research
Definition





Christianity





Muslim (Islam)





Hindu(ism)





Sikh(ism)





Jewish (Judaism)







  • Write a definition for each of the issues in the top row - use the Internet to help.
  • Use the Internet and books around the room to research each of the moral issues, and the beliefs from each religious group.  Add a summary to your created table of the beliefs for each issue & religion.
Task:  Create a blog post and include your table (copy & paste should work).  Introduce the table, explaining what it is showing.  Now its time for your opinion add this to the blog
  • For each of the moral/ethical issues - explain your beliefs on each of them.  Remember to state your reasons why you believe this.

Some Resources:

BBC Religions
BBC Bitesize
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Monday, 23 September 2013

Competition time - Week beginning 23/09/13

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Sunday, 22 September 2013

Should you be able to wear religious clothing in public places?

Religious Veil in Court - should it be allowed or not?

Muslim woman must remove veil to give trial evidence - judges ruling



Task: Read the following stories, as well as the newspaper articles on tables, from different sources about the woman fighting for the right to wear her veil in court.

The Day
The Express
New Statesman

Question: Is there any accessory or item of clothing that should be banned in public places?

Task: Research UKs most prominent religions and identify traditional dress. When is it worn? Who is it worn by? And what is its cultural and theological significance? Blog It!

Religious Affiliation, England  Wales, 2011
Source: Census - Office for National Statistics

Minority religious groups, England & Wales, 2011
Source: Census - Office for National Statistics

Task: Blog post your opinion on today's question - explain your opinion using information you have read or found today.

More resources:

Niqab veil is the 'woman's choice' - Today Programme debate
Head teachers against face veils in school
Veil debate: Boris Johnson gives his views
Lib Dem views: Banning the full-face veil
Burkas not acceptable in schools or courts, says Tory MP
BBC News links
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Religion in the UK - 2011 Census


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Thursday, 18 July 2013

10n General Studies group - evidence must haves!

By the end of the week, all the following evidence you have worked on needs to be completed and uploaded to your blogs.

  • Infographic on internet / technology use
  • The greatest technology invention - promotional product
  • Health education - your opinion post on what should be included and ages etc.
  • An image related to an area of health education that you think is appropriate for students and why
  • Storify article on NHS charging for alcohol, obesity or smoking related illnesses
  • Animation on Small Actions Big change - way to help the environment
  • Blog post on life sentences "Should whole life sentences mean life?"
  • Image of the effects of drugs along with explanation of the effects

Once all this evidence is complete and uploaded to your blogs, we need you to design a promotional poster for the www.generalstudies.co.uk blog - use Adobe Photoshop and size set at: 420 x 297 mm

Send Photoshop files to me when complete - the best ones will be printed and used around school to promote General Studies!


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Wednesday, 17 July 2013

L/01 To understand what climate change is
L/O2 To understand how you can reduce your carbon footprint




Using these fact sheets  create a poster to give 5 top tips that help you reduce your carbon footprint on the world. Make sure you use the fact sheets to explain fully how your top tips will help.

Plenary

Quiz

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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

New 'Cheerios' Ad Showing Bi-Racial Family Sparks Racist Reaction

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Thursday, 11 July 2013

Killers' life terms 'breached their human rights'

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled the whole-life tariffs given to murderer Jeremy Bamber and two other killers breached their human rights.


Read more

Report

Justice Secretary response

An incentive - lawyer's point of view
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Thursday, 4 July 2013

BBC E-mail: World reacts to removal of Morsi

Miss Squires saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it.



** World reacts to removal of Morsi **
World leaders react to the Egyptian army's decision to remove Mohammed Morsi as president and suspend the constitution.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/world-middle-east-23175379 >

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BBC E-mail: LIVE: Live: Egypt crisis

Miss Squires saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it.



** LIVE: Live: Egypt crisis **

< http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/world-23177638 >



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BBC E-mail: Computer mouse inventor dies at 88


** Computer mouse inventor dies at 88 **
The computer mouse&#039;s inventor, Doug Engelbart, who also developed early versions of email, word processing and the internet, dies aged 88.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/world-us-canada-23174052 >

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Monday, 1 July 2013

50 Ways to Help the Planet

50 Ways to Help the Planet


Small actions x lots of people = Big Changes

Identify one change that you will promote.  Using Adobe Fireworks, you are going to create an animation to promote your small change to make a big change.  In your animation, you need to include:

  • Why is it a problem / what's its negative impact on the planet?
  • What is the small change / how do we do it?
  • How the change will make a difference?
Think about the type of people you are trying to appeal to and make sure your animation targets them.


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Thursday, 27 June 2013

Glastonbury in numbers

Continue reading the main story

As Glastonbury gets under way this weekend, we took a statistical snapshot of the UK's biggest and brightest music festival.
Glastonbury headliners by genre 1970-2013: ROCK (61) T Rex, David Bowie, Tim Blake, Peter Gabriel, Hawkwind, Van Morrison, Jackson Browne, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joe Cocker, The Boomtown Rats, The Cure, The Psychedelic Furs, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, Happy Mondays, Carter USM, Black Crowes, Lenny Kravitz, The Levellers, Oasis, Pulp, Radiohead, Ash, Primal Scream, Blur, REM, Manic Street Preachers, Skunk Anansie, Travis, Coldplay, Rod Stewart, Stereophonics, Paul McCartney, Muse, The White Stripes, The Killers, The Who, Kings Of Leon, The Verve, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Arctic Monkeys, The Rolling Stones. POP (6) New Order, Level 42, The Communards, Shakespear's Sister, Sinead O’Connor, Gorillaz. DANCE (4) The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Moby, Basement Jaxx. FOLK (3) Suzanne Vega, Christy Moore, Mumford and Sons. SOUL (3) Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce. REGGAE (2) UB40, Black Uhuru JAZZ (1) Weather Report. WORLD (1) Youssou N'Dour. RAP (1) Jay-Z
There have been 82 headline acts on the main stage, which took on its distinctive pyramid shape at the second festival in 1971. Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, The Cure and Coldplay hold the joint record for number of headline appearances with three each. Six main stage headline acts have pulled out - The Kinks (1970), Red Hot Chili Peppers (1993), The Stone Roses (1995) Stevie Winwood (1997), Kylie Minogue (2005) and U2 (2010).
Glastonbury site in numbers. Size of site: 11,000 acres. Perimeter of site: 8.5 miles. Capacity of Pyramid stage: 90,000. Tents per hectare: 430. Market stalls: 755. Toilets on site: 5,487
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How Big Really?

How big really?
  • See how big the Glastonbury site would be compared to your house
Festival-goers at the first Glastonbury in 1970 enjoyed free entry and were given a free pint of milk on arrival.
The 1970 festival saw a modest gathering of 1,500 people, who witnessed a performance from T-Rex.
This grew to 12,000 in 1971, but the festival was not held again until 1978, when 500 held a small impromptu event.

From 1979, it became a three-day affair, and attendance increased year by year until passing the 100,000 mark in 1998.

During the 1980s and early 90s, Glastonbury attracted large numbers of new age travellers, but as the festival grew, its dynamic shifted. Free admissions ended, ticket prices rose steadily, and fences were made higher.

The festival is now considered the largest greenfield festival in the world. All 135,000 tickets for 2013 sold out in 1 hour 40 minutes.
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Thursday, 20 June 2013

Healthy v Unhealthy

What changes are occurring within society to control the consumption of unhealthy products?
What are the benefits both to the individual & society of positive outcomes?

Review the news stories below, what do you think?

Viewpoint: Charging for eating, smoking & drinking costs

Huffington Post: NHS should charge for smoking, obesity & alcohol related illnesses

BBC: Rise in child obesity-related hospital admissions

Task:
Use Storify to create a persuasive piece about one of these areas, showing your opinion on them (this should be bias to what you think!).  Introduce the piece and ensure you have a summary/conclusion at the bottom.  Focus on the two questions at the top of the blog.

Publicise your piece to your blog when finished.

You can not connect to Facebook, but Twitter will work if you have an account - if not, let me know and I'll enter the General Studies account for you.

Here's an example of a Storify piece:


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Health Education - Your opinion

Write a blog post with your opinions on health education.  Think about the following areas when you write the post:

  • What should be included in schools health education?
  • What ages should they be taught?
  • How in depth should the education go?
  • Should it be bias?
  • How can we best educate?
This is your opinion, justify you reasons well - convince me that you are right!


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Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Future Technology


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Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Health Education - how far should it go?

Starter:  Health Education in School
In groups, list out all the different lessons you have had related to health education, what subjects covered these lessons?

Discussion:  Do schools go far enough?  What else should be included?

Task:  Write a brief scheme of work on what schools should cover in health education.  Upload to blog and share ideas with others.  SOW Template

Jamie Oliver: School food revolution

Task: Create a graphic resource that could be used to educate secondary school students on an area that you feel is important in this topic e.g. alcohol, diet, smoking, drugs

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Friday, 14 June 2013

BBC E-mail: What is skeuomorphism?

Miss Squires saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it.

** What is skeuomorphism? **
Apple announced it would scrap the "traditional" look of its mobile apps which mimicked real world objects. This is "skeuomorphic" design.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/magazine-22840833 >

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Greatest Technology Invention of the last 40 years?

What has been the greatest invention for technology in the last 40 years?  You decide!

Research the inventions for the last 40 years and identify which one YOU think is the greatest.

Create a promotional product to explain why this is the greatest invention, what impact has it had and how would people's lives be different without it?

Promotional products could include: a video, flyer, poster, podcast, animation etc.

Inventions of the 20th Century

Add the final product to your blogs.

EXT: What is the worst invention of the last 40 years and why?






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Wednesday, 12 June 2013

History of the Internet in 4 minutes
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Friday, 7 June 2013

Self-portraits and social media: The rise of the 'selfie'

Celebrity selfies: Kelly Brook, Justin Bieber and Rihanna

Celebrity selfies: Kelly Brook, Justin Bieber and Rihanna

There's a mania for sharing self-taken photographs online. But why, asks Charissa Coulthard.

The first smartphone with a forward-facing camera was the watershed moment.

You only need this second, forward-facing camera if you want to take pictures of yourself. Could there be any more conclusive indication of the ubiquity of the self-portrait or "selfie"?

The cameras, which focus automatically from arm's length, invite us to photograph on the spur of the moment, regardless of location or company.

Images can be shared with thousands of other people. Its immediacy - Look where I am! Look what I'm doing! Look at what I look like! - is exciting. To some.

There's the high angle photo, awkwardly featuring the taker's arm. There's the mirror self-portrait. There are posed selfies, with Bambi-eyes and pouting lips. And there are group selfies, even dodging a stranger's kind offer to take the same photo.

Continue reading the main story
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Internet's Impact on Society


The Internet’s Impact On Society from rchuvt
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Thursday, 6 June 2013

Predicted internet usage

Make your own Infographic @ infogr.am

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Wednesday, 5 June 2013


Thought-guided helicopter takes off

Researchers have harnessed the power of thought to guide a remote control helicopter through an obstacle course.

Read this article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22764978

Questions to consider
  • How would this technological development have an impact on our lives?
  • What would be the advantages and disadvantages of this technology?
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Infographic: How Technology in Schools Has Changed Over Time

Can you imagine attending a school where whiteboards weren’t used,there were no handheld calculators, and headphones weren’t available? Travel back in time about 50-60 years, and that’s exactly what you’d get. This infographic takes a look at the changes of technology in school settings from the early 1900′s to present day.

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Tuesday, 4 June 2013

BBC E-mail: Logging our lives with wearable tech

Miss Squires saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it.

** Logging our lives with wearable tech **
What can we learn from the data collected by the many wearable activity monitoring devices which are now entering the market? Rory Cellan-Jones explains.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/technology-22767096 >

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The Internet Revolution


  • How has the internet affected society both in terms of individual & mass usage?
  • What are the advantages & disadvantages of this form of technology?
  • What are the effects on lifestyle and communication skills?
  • What's the future?


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Internet Revolution

Internet Revolution



In the mid-90s, the ARPANET was transformed from military use to the peoples Internet. It has become such an integral part of our lives, bringing with it a fundamental change not only technological, but societal and epic in scope.
Internet Revolution video
Here are some questions for you to answer on your blog.
How has the internet affected society both in terms of individual and mass usage? 
How will the internet help to improve poorer countries?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this form of technology?
What do you think the internet will be like in the future?





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