de Ferrers Specialist Technology College – Frog Blog

We have added a number of additional Frog features to the de Ferrers VLE, including:


D+T Peer mentoring:

Students can now select a DT option and ask for help, guidance and advice from some volunteer mentors. Most of the GCSE and A level options are now represented.

We’re already seeing some excellent responses to this – well done!

We hope to start using this approach soon in other curriculum areas.


Education News:

Staff and governors at de Ferrers now have their own one-stop shop for education news and webslinks, agggregating all of the news feeds into one convenient webpage.

We will soon be making a one-stop revision and study page for students.




Young Designers:

DT are celebrating the work of KS3 designers by dispalying some of the best work and inviting their peers to cast their votes.

Check below for the current winners…

We have recently posted about a couple of new VLE sections, but there is more..!

Design & Technology now have their curriculum area website up and running. The website has resources, a gallery and forums. You can access this website through the “Subjects” area on the main menu.

In a recent post we mentioned the new IAG Portal. If you enter the IAG Portal and go to the Careers/Connexions section, there is a survey about the Careers Exhibition which took place last week on the 6th January. Please take a minute or two to complete the survey and give us feedback about this event.

Finally, the latest Frog Box vote is active within the Student Voice area. The topic this week is about the recent weather in the UK… head on over and get voting!

More updates soon…

It’s week 2 of our Frog VLE and web traffic is up 20% on last week…keep it up, all you Frog users!

The Science website is now live and packed with stuff, including GCSE revision resources (past papers & mark schemes, podcasts and the podquiz, BrainBlast notes and quizzes), weblinks & Science news, class notes and the Nutty Professors Science Club. Special thanks to Mr Griffiths for getting the website out in time for resit exams.

From Friday, you will be able to see the school daily notices and lunch menu on your Frog homepage. What else do you want to see?

Finally, our 1st Frog competition: RADIO DE FERRERS JINGLE…..

We want you to use your ICT skills to design some short jingles or music for our forthcoming radio station. A panel of staff & student judges will select the best one for a music-related prize.

The deadline will be 1st January 2010. Anyone in Y7 – Y13 can enter.

E-mail your entries to frogadmin@deferrers.com. Good luck and get jingling…

Welcome to our new Frog Blog on de Ferrers TV.

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