The de Ferrers Academy – Frog Blog

This week in Frog we have grown even more:

- Several dozen students have signed up for jobs next term as radio station presenters, news crews, sports reporters, games designers and FrogAgents…well done!

- You can now enter the FrogBox..our interactive suggestion box & voting booth. You can find the FrogBox in the Student Voice section of the VLE. This week’s topical vote…who will win X-Factor? Vote now…

- Gifted & Talented now have their own mini-website for students to access resources and links.

- Science have added the Science Blog to their revision pages. Read it here: http://defscience.wordpress.com/. You can check out what the science staff & students have been looking at and recommending…

COMING NEXT WEEK…improvements and additions to the Student Voice section, including the Council Pages and IAG gets activated…!

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…