Year 11s

1. Please save the current template that you ahve been working on into shared/cit/student work/year 11/work to be marked/

Please save it WITH YOUR NAME IN THE FILE NAME - e.g. Joe Bloggs design template

In yesterday's post I put a list of revision topics for the mock - work on that.

Year 10s

USe today's lesson to complete as much outstanding coursework as you can - nothing new today - it's time to make sure that you are as up to date as you can make it.

Year 9

As part of this lesson you will me working together on an online document to plan what you might need to think about when it comes to working out how much money you will make when you sell the bedding plants.

You will be working in three groups - each group is the set of students sitting on a side of the classroom.

Left side of room (looking at sports hall) click here

Back of the room click here

right side of the room (looking at bus bay) click here

At the end of the lesson, click on IMPORT/EXPORT and choose word document to save the plan into your my documents folder.

TRY to avoid being silly - I can just check later who did what...

Having established as a group what your ideas are start, in your evidence powerpoint to come up with a list of the success criteria which you will use to evaluate how successful your spreadsheet is once you have finished it.

Have a go at the flowol - greenhouse mimic- it doesn't matter if you get it wrong to start off with - the IT term for this is ITERATION - repeatedly redoing work to make it better.MAKE SURE THAT YOU SAVE THE WORK EACH TIME WITH A DIFFERET FILE NAME- E.G. GREENHOUSE 1, GREENHOUSE 2 ETC -EACH TIME YOU MAKE A CHANGE.

Year 7

continue with the myths and legends work - make sure that your powerpoint plan is up to date.

Look at the post just down the page for details of how to log in and start creating your story.

Year 10

I'm re-posting the notes from last lesson to give you time to get everything done - please remember - this isn't a doss lesson - you really need to get on with the work and if you are stuck, ask for help.

Year 11 revision notes

click here and save the doc to your folder.

Follow the links to the different topic websites

Look in Shared/ICT/GCSE ICT and there are a couple of folders - theory and exam papers - both should help!

Year 10: nothing new today - take this as an opportunity to catch up on all the work set so far!

Anyone who thinks that they have done so should research the Data protection act.

try here.

7W - continue with the Myths and Legends story project. - for further details look below to the info given out yesterday.

the website for myths and legends is:

http://myths.e2bn.org/story_creator/

Instructions:

1: Click on Messages - if you have already signed in, do so. Otherwise click on "join for free"

2: Enter a user name and password - make sure that you'll remember it! (hint - use the school one so that I'll know who you are)

3)AS you can see from the pic, you'll have to type tenbury and then select the high school... Then click on join...

You have Chapters across the top - 10 in all, and each chapter is made up of 9 slides - click on story board in the bottom left to see them.

Remember - you need to STRUCTURE your story so that each chapter is separate - and a chapter will have to have several pages - just like in a book.

Year 8s

Ensure that you have done the powerpoint on e-safety.

Next, get someone to check it against the success criteria - see further down this blog if you can't remember them!

Add a new page - write down any feedback you ahve had.

Answer these questions:

do you think the feedback was valid?

If you disagree with the feedback, explain why

what changes would you make to improve your presentation?

Save the presentation (using FILE/SAVE AS) and add "after feedback" to the name of the file

Now you will have a before and after presentation - make sure you actually do the improvements!

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powerpoint on internet safety.

using resources from the net, www.thunkuknow.co.uk and what we talked about, use the powerpoint presentation to make young people aware of the need to be careful when putting info about themselves online.

target audience: students in years 5-8

success criteria:

all slides MUST be consistent - same background, colours, fonts, layouts etc. (This isn't just me - if you ever want to get above a level 3, then this is what you have to do! - to all the moaners out there who want their work to look "pretty" - tough!)

topics to include: blogging, social networking, using mobile phones

Next, get someone to check it against the success criteria - see further down this blog if you can't remember them!

Add a new page - write down any feedback you ahve had.

Answer these questions:

do you think the feedback was valid?

If you disagree with the feedback, explain why

what changes would you make to improve your presentation?

Save the presentation (using FILE/SAVE AS) and add "after feedback" to the name of the file

Now you will have a before and after presentation - make sure you actually do the improvements!

The following activity should take around 15 minutes and be started at 10am.

As part of this lesson you will me working together on an online document to plan what you might need to think about when it comes to working out how much money you will make when you sell the bedding plants.

You will be working in three groups - each group is the set of students sitting on a side of the classroom.

Left side of room (looking at sports hall) click here

Back of the room click here

right side of the room (looking at bus bay) click here

At the end of the lesson, click on IMPORT/EXPORT and choose word document to save the plan into your my documents folder.

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KS4 students: you can email me SENSIBLE questions that cannot be answered by reading the instructions in your coursework - I'll try and answer either via mail or as posts on this blog.

mrphil@tenburyhigh.worcs.sch.uk

Year 7W - Tuesday and Wednesday

you are going to be writing a picture book aimed at KS2 students telling them about a famous historical event. The project will be in several parts - As I have already mentioned, planning and evaluating are more important than just doing "stuff" ,so for the IT bit we have to produce a plan - and that is what we'll be looking at today. Later on we get to actually put things together, and then we'll evaluate it. #

You will need to discuss what makes for a good picture story - the SUCCESS CRITERIA. This is a list of things that your story should be like - at the end this is what we'll be using to mark each others work - You'll get the chance to look at different stories and then grade them as to whether they meet the success criteria or not. You need to think about two different sets of things in the success critiera - 1 lot which is all about the picture book that you have made and the second lot about the language that you are using.

Shared/ICT/Year 7/myths and legends.ppt.

The way the software works is that you can have up to 10 chapters, and each chapter can have 9 pages.

Stories often have beginnings (where you set the scene, describe what is going on etc) A middle (where the stuff happens) and an end (where everything gets explained) You'll also need to think about what characters you are going to have etc.

RULES:

Boys- no wars, fights or gun stories. It's ok to have a murder for example if you were telling a police story, but NOT just fighting fighting fighting like you all try to do in Drama!

Year 10s

coursework - carry on with what you are doing. Also, look at the troubleshooting section of mb5-7 in the add on marks. The idea of this is that the year 11s are total IT muppets and could'nt fix anything more complicated than a pencil!

Your task is to provide them with a troubleshooting guide to help them sort out the sorts of common IT problems that they face:

e.g.

mouse/keyboard/printer/monitor/scanner etc not working (these are called peripherals)

what is the difference between PS/2 and serial / USB connection? which one needs to be restarted before the peripheral will work?

If words that they know are correctly spelled are highlighted as incorrect - why is this and what can you do to solve the problem?

why is it that sometimes files that you have saved and work on without problems at home cannot be used at school? What are the solutions?

Year 9s

evidence powerpoint - we strated it before the hols - you need to make sure that you have included ANNOTATED evidence of as much of the work as you can (hint - take this opportunity to finish off anyhting that you haven't done - e.g. collecting evaluation and feddback ideas)

Task 2:

powerpoint on internet safety.

using resources from the net, www.thunkuknow.co.uk and what we talked about, use the powerpoint presentation to make young people aware of the need to be careful when putting info about themselves online.

target audience: students in years 5-8

success criteria:

all slides MUST be consistent - same background, colours, fonts, layouts etc. (This isn't just me - if you ever want to get above a level 3, then this is what you have to do! - to all the moaners out there who want their work to look "pretty" - tough!)

topics to include: blogging, social networking, using mobile phones

Year 11s - look at yesterday's notes for what you have to do.

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powerpoint on internet safety.

using resources from the net, www.thunkuknow.co.uk and what we talked about, use the powerpoint presentation to make young people aware of the need to be careful when putting info about themselves online.

target audience: students in years 5-8

success criteria:

all slides MUST be consistent - same background, colours, fonts, layouts etc. (This isn't just me - if you ever want to get above a level 3, then this is what you have to do! - to all the moaners out there who want their work to look "pretty" - tough!)

topics to include: blogging, social networking, using mobile phones

The following activity should take around 15 minutes and be started at 10am.

As part of this lesson you will me working together on an online document to plan what you might need to think about when it comes to working out how much money you will make when you sell the bedding plants.

You will be working in three groups - each group is the set of students sitting on a side of the classroom.

Left side of room (looking at sports hall) click here

Back of the room click here

right side of the room (looking at bus bay) click here

At the end of the lesson, click on IMPORT/EXPORT and choose word document to save the plan into your my documents folder.

Year 10s

review/complete troubleshooting task started last lesson.

There is a big stack of paper resources on the window ledge facing the bus bay. Scan and review usefulness of 3 different sources - e.g. the school badge (hint - you used this one!) a film leaflet (hint - when would the films be available on DVD?) and a picture (hint - what state is it in?) or text (hint - how will you get the text into your leaflet)

You'll need clear explanations IN SENTENCES as to why some paper resources get used - either scanned in and put in leaflet or as a guide on how to set up a leaflet, or why some are not used.

You also have to do a report on how to work safely at a PC - this is to do with health and safety at work. you can google for stuff - but remember - the examiners will be seeing the same stuff from thousands of people who think that they can just copy and paste of the net - I'm afraid that you'll have to actually write something yourselves!

look in the text books on p225-230 (hint)

Year 11s

Mock revision.

HINT - these topics will be in the mock

If you haven't already done so (sorry - I cant remember which group did the network task) - then scroll down the page for details of what to do - make notes on different types of networks and answer questions based on a case study.

Thereafter: topic = ICT and its effects on society.

employment - jobs created/changed/lost due to ict

shopping and effects of ict on high street

ict and the law - review project 1a

Systems - p.240 - analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation, evaluation - sound familiar? there has ALWAYS been a question on this - e.g. what does dan need to do before setting up a new database system?

look in shared/ict/gcse ict/and there are variou folders of resources - "theory" and a folder of all the exam questions ever asked sorted by category - with their answers!

This should take you all week to do, plus this is also A HOMEWORK TASK!

Year 7 period 5

you are going to be writing a picture book aimed at KS2 students telling them about a famous historical event. The project will be in several parts - As I have already mentioned, planning and evaluating are more important than just doing "stuff" ,so for the IT bit we have to produce a plan - and that is what we'll be looking at today. Later on we get to actually put things together, and then we'll evaluate it. #

You will need to discuss what makes for a good picture story - the SUCCESS CRITERIA. This is a list of things that your story should be like - at the end this is what we'll be using to mark each others work - You'll get the chance to look at different stories and then grade them as to whether they meet the success criteria or not. You need to think about two different sets of things in the success critiera - 1 lot which is all about the picture book that you have made and the second lot about the language that you are using.

Shared/ICT/Year 7/myths and legends.ppt.

The way the software works is that you can have up to 10 chapters, and each chapter can have 9 pages.

Stories often have beginnings (where you set the scene, describe what is going on etc) A middle (where the stuff happens) and an end (where everything gets explained) You'll also need to think about what characters you are going to have etc.

RULES:

Boys- no wars, fights or gun stories. It's ok to have a murder for example if you were telling a police story, but NOT just fighting fighting fighting like you all try to do in Drama!

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Year 11 students: investigate, using the text books at the back different network TOPOLOGIES (this is a fancy name for how a network is laid out)

p`149-184

In a word document called "exam revision" put the following headings:

LAN and WAN

peer 2 peer / client server

ring

star

bus

What are they?

pros and cons?

.

look at case study on p158-9 and answer questions - fully, using proper sentences and full, clear explanations

what topology is the school network? is it peer to peer or client server?

HINT: This topic WILL be in the mock exam!

Year 10s

coursework.

look at the troubleshooting section of mb5-7 in the add on marks. The idea of this is that the year 11s are total IT muppets and could'nt fix anything more complicated than a pencil!

Your task is to provide them with a troubleshooting guide to help them sort out the sorts of common IT problems that they face:

e.g.

mouse/keyboard/printer/monitor/scanner etc not working (these are called peripherals)

what is the difference between PS/2 and serial / USB connection? which one needs to be restarted before the peripheral will work?

If words that they know are correctly spelled are highlighted as incorrect - why is this and what can you do to solve the problem?

why is it that sometimes files that you have saved and work on without problems at home cannot be used at school? What are the solutions?

Year 10 students: get on with your coursework!

Year 11s:

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periods 1&2 year 8 and 7T

comeplete powerpoint on internet safety.

using resources from the net, www.thunkuknow.co.uk and what we talked about, use the powerpoint presentation to make young people aware of the need to be careful when putting info about themselves online.

target audience: students in years 5-8

success criteria:

all slides MUST be consistent - same background, colours, fonts, layouts etc. (This isn't just me - if you ever want to get above a level 3, then this is what you have to do! - to all the moaners out there who want their work to look "pretty" - tough!)

topics to include: blogging, social networking, using mobile phones

Year 7 period 3

you are going to be writing a picture book aimed at KS2 students telling them about a famous historical event. The project will be in several parts - As I have already mentioned, planning and evaluating are more important than just doing "stuff" ,so for the IT bit we have to produce a plan - and that is what we'll be looking at today. Later on we get to actually put things together, and then we'll evaluate it. #

You will need to discuss what makes for a good picture story - the SUCCESS CRITERIA. This is a list of things that your story should be like - at the end this is what we'll be using to mark each others work - You'll get the chance to look at different stories and then grade them as to whether they meet the success criteria or not. You need o think about two different sets of things in the success critiera - 1 lot which is all about the picture book that you have made and the second lot about the language that you are using.

Mr Bidgood will come in and tell you where the worksheet is for this planning section.

The way the software works is that you can have up to 10 chapters, and each chapter can have 9 pages.

Stories often have beginnings (where you set the scene, describe what is going on etc) A middle (where the stuff happens) and an end (where everything gets explained) You'll also need to think about what characters you are going to have etc.

RULES:

Boys- no wars, fights or gun stories. It's ok to have a murder for example if you were telling a police story, but NOT just fighting fighting fighting like you all try to do in Drama!

Year 10 - period 4

questions can be emailed to me at mrphil@tenburyhigh.worcs.sch.uk

HOWEVER: read the instructions first and actually try to think what it's all about before asking daft questions, 'cos if I think that they are daft, then I'll tel you so rather than tell you what to do!

research task: what type of software is a driver and what does it do?

Everyon : get on with your work!

Mark band 3-4 in add on marks:

You need to consider the pros and cons of three different scenarios - on-line vs high street shopping, email vs post for keeping in touch with Auntie Val in Oz, and doing your homework on the computer or by hand. On the

window ledge on the printer side of the room there are a bunch of film reviews, cinema leaflets etc. start to scan some of them in and add them into mark band 0-2.

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Year 11s - periods 1 and 3

continue with coursework.

questions can be emailed to me at mrphil@tenburyhigh.worcs.sch.uk

HOWEVER: read the instructions first and actually try to think what it's all about before asking daft questions, 'cos if I think that they are daft, then I'll tel you so rather than tell you what to do!

for design section, remember that you need 2 of everything, plus an evaluation: 2 PCs, 2 printers, 2 forms etc. In the evaluation, relate to the user requirements - you'll find that affordable, professional looking and easy to use are the best URs to use ...

Year 10 - period 3

group 1: students who sit on printer side of room - facing bus bay

Mark band 5-7 of add on marks.

google for a diag. relating to health and safety and ICT. identify the common health problems associated with using a PC and how to avoid them. You could either annotate a diagor write a list. BEWARE: most of the common diags that you find that are already labelled have been around for years and simply using one of these and/or changing a few words in the text will get you no marks.

research task: what type of software is a driver and what does it do?

Everyone else: get on with your work!

Mark band 3-4 in add on marks:

You need to consider the pros and cons of three different scenarios - on-line vs high street shopping, email vs post for keeping in touch with Auntie Val in Oz, and doing your homework on the computer or my hand

indow ledge behind where Charlotte sits there are a bunch of film reviews, cinema leaflets etc. start to scan some of them in and add them into mark band 0-2.

Year 8 - Period 4

2 options: if Mrs Lampard is covering, last lesson the students imported the data from the shared files into their databases - please go through using filters with them in the database to do worksheet 1 which has been customised for my groups

option 2 - a different teacher covering:

last lesson before half term we were talking about internet safety - using resources from the net, www.thunkuknow.co.uk and what we talked about, prepare a powerpoint presentation on what young people need to be aware of when putting info about themselves online.

target audience: students in years 5-8

success criteria:

all slides MUST be consistent - same background, colours, fonts, layouts etc. (This isn't just me - if you ever want to get above a level 3, then this is what you have to do! - to all the moaners out there who want their work to look "pretty" - tough!)

topics to include: blogging, social networking, using mobile phones

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10M2

group 1: students who sit on printer side of room - facing bus bay

Mark band 5-7 of add on marks.

google for a diag. relating to health and safety and ICT. identify the common health problems associated with using a PC and how to avoid them. You could either annotate a diagor write a list. BEWARE: most of the common diags that you find that are already labelled have been around for years and simply using one of these and/or changing a few words in the text will get you no marks.

research task: what type of software is a driver and what does it do?

Everyone else: get on with your work!

Mark band 3-4 in add on marks:

You need to consider the pros and cons of three different scenarios - on-line vs high street shopping, email vs post for keeping in touch with Auntie Val in Oz, and doing your homework on the computer or my hand

indow ledge behind where Charlotte sits there are a bunch of film reviews, cinema leaflets etc. start to scan some of them in and add them into mark band 0-2.

7H

complete the powerpoint relating to online safety. use the resources from www.thinkuknow.co.uk and specifically concentrate on blogging, social networking and mobile phone use. Think about the discussions and the assembly

9T

complete evidence ppt up to the start of modelling. ensure that you have ANNOTATED your work to explain clearly what each slide shows and what you have done. Remember - the ability to evaluate work against success criteria, explain the reasons for what you have done and use your initiative in putting together a consistent and professional presentation are extremely important aspects of your work - im many ways more important than just "doing stuff". Anyone who hasn't actually done everything should take the opportunity to get it done!

Mr Bidgood will be up with an email address for me - please would you then email me with your school emails as there is a project/experiment that I'd like to try out - thanks

Please note- it needs to be your SCHOOL email address.

Year 11

Continue with coursework!

Please watch Ethan so that he doesn't doss around. I'm going to be asking for work to be send through so since I marked everyone's work in the week before the hols I'm going to be expecing some considerable work to be done.

READ the instructions - that is what they are there for!

On the w

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7H

Click here for your worksheet

7T

Click here for your worksheet

Period	Class	Lesson Planning
1	9H	logo design worksheet from shared files shared/ict/year 9/drama production project/publicity/ (?) logo design. students research and compare existing logos for the play Joseph - dreamcoat show stages of development of own logo - not good enough to show a final version - save steps as they go along/experiment with different layouts and include in worksheet as evidence. If this is finished, go into the next folder down to do with publicity and do the first poster task - in this students need to analyse the sample posters and then identify what information would be needed in a poster to be displayed WITHIN SCHOOL. Design poster using the logo previously designed.
2	7H	step 1: Healthy eating recipe research on net - approx 10mins to start of with. Topic: Healthy alternative Christmas menu Save bookmarks / copy and paste 4 recipies into word – they’ll be doing menu cards like Sainsbury is advertising … step 2: design poster to promote healthy eating
3
4	11D	revision: network questions from shared files. choose question, research and answer - check with exam board answers and review examiners comments shared/ict/gcse ict/theory/exam questions/networks files available: higher and foundation questions higher and foundation answers examiner’s report on the questions text books at back (ICTforYou) p.149-184 continue with coursework if needed
5	11B	revision: network questions from shared files. choose question, research and answer - check with exam board answers and review examiners comments shared/ict/gcse ict/theory/exam questions/networks files available: higher and foundation questions higher and foundation answers examiner’s report on the questions text books at back (ICTforYou) p.149-184 continue with coursework if needed

Please take part in this survey of computer access outside school

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9W - worksheet here

11C - worksheet here. If finished, review spreadsheet
and catch up with any coursework

10C and 10D
ICT for you text book from shelves at back
Open word doc and save as vocabulary.doc - make sure that you add any key words from the text as you go along.
In a separate word file called Theory, answer the following:
Activity 1 - p155
case study p158-9
activity 2 p.161
activity 3 p162

make sure that you can explain the following terms:
topology
ring, star bus networks
peer to peer
client server
LAN and WAN
ISP
bit, byte
analogue and digital

Cover notes - Tuesday, 9th September

Year 9 - please use this worksheet: click here

Year 11 students: please use this worksheet: click here

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Year 9, period 3

You have to download the worksheet and follow the instructions!

worksheet here

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All year 11 lessons (11B and C)

Work to complete coursework – READ the instructions and follow them! Ask another member of the class if in doubt.

Revision questions:

Shared/ICT/GCSE ICT/Exam questions/

Questions grouped by topic. Within each topic there are all the foundation and higher questions ever published by the exam board, along with answers and the examiner’s report for each question. Choose a topic and see how many questions can be answered. Use text books to research gaps …

If you have a memory stick, copy these resources to use in the hols.

Mr Bidgood will be coming round next week with a pen drive – it is IMPORTANT that you copy ALL your ICT coursework onto the pen drive so that I can mark it. If you do not hand it in I will be forced to write to your parents to explain why you may fial your GCSE.

All Year 9 lessons.

Students should make sure that coursework is completed, and then use the evaluation sheet in shared/ICT/year 9 ICT/Drama production project/ to collect feedback and put together evidence to support their work.

Year 8S1

Complete web pages and fill in planning doc.
Go to shared/ict/and use the feedback sheet to collect user feedback.
Think about the comment on improvements that you have received – are they realistic? could you actually do them effectively?
Suggest how you could make the site more effective if you were doing it again.

Go through level descriptors and check that all tasks are completed for your level

Year 7s
design a qestionnaire to use for students to fill in their details to put into your database.

Format it properly to collect in useful data:

e.g. Name __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ would collect better quality data than:
Name: _______________________

Start Year: [ ][ ][ ][ ] is better than Start year: ________________

etc.

Design a poster to advertise the service that you provide. Your audience is students aged 11-14.

They are new to the school - what facts do you need to include?

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Period 2 – 11C

coursework!

Please remind students of the deadline of the end of this term for completing their coursework. They should check the spreadsheet in:

Shared/ICT/grades

To see what they need to do for projects 1a, 1b and 2.

Anyone who has completed a section and can explain to someone else what to do will be thanked when I get back!

For latest versions of guidance for 1a and 1b, see :

Shared/ict/gcseict/1a/project 1a template2

And

Shared/ict/gcseict/1b/project 1b template up to grade A

… for ideas.

Periods 4 and 5

9S and 9H

Students have been producing promotional materials for a school production of Joseph. (posters and a flyer)

In shared/ICT/Year 9/drama production project/ they should open the evaluation sheet and work through it.

If they need help adding links to their existing work, they can click on the video clips, and a demo is there to show them what to do.

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Lesson 1:

Year 8S1

Students are creating web pages to promote Tenbury. They have 2 lessons remaining in which to complete their work, and also do their evaluations. If this means that they need to go to the IT room at lunchtime, then they should do so!

Task 1: Go to Shared/ICT/ and there is a word doc called something like feedback.doc

They should use this to get someone else to review their work and give constructive criticism. (please remind them what this means!)

They do NOT have to make the suggested changes, so long as they can explain why not.

Also, they have a planning sheet that they used at the start of the project. Screenshots and comments for all the pages that they have created need to be placed in this doc in the relevant sections.

Lesson 5:

9T

Students have been producing promotional materials for a school production of Joseph. (posters and a flyer)

In shared/ICT/Year 9/drama production project/ they should open the evaluation sheet and work through it.

If they need help adding links to their existing work, they can click on the video clips, and a demo is there to show them what to do.

They should use this to get someone else to review their work and give constructive criticism. (please remind them what this means!)

They do NOT have to make the suggested changes, so long as they can explain why not.


This doc aims to bring together all the work done so far as a portfolio or end of unit assessment.

They should be finishing this off, along with their posters etc. today and next week.

try uploading audio files using this: