ICT

The winners, runners-up and highly commended schools and organisations were announced on Monday 5 November 2007, at an evening awards ceremony at the ICC, Birmingham.

Aquinas were awarded runner up in the prestigious Best whole school (secondary) category.

Click below to view the Aquinas representatives on the night.

In March last year, the school applied for inclusion on a DV Pilot run by C2k.  We were successful and to facilitate us in our work, we received an eMac Computer, DV Camera and keyboardThe project, called Environment Matters was launched in Year 9 Geography classes in May where we discussed local and global environmental issues such as climate change, rainforest deforestation, pollution, recycling and litter.  At the same time, the ICT Department taught the pupils the skills of video editing.  Later, around June time, the Year 9s were divided into groups (based on the Art classes) of four or five.  This allowed the English Department to begin creative writing tasks where each group had to produce a story based around an environmental theme.

These tasks were finished by September and now the Art and Design Department was able to bring the stories to life by constructing sets and plasticine models which was facilitated by the school in having two ‘collapsed timetable’ days.

To learn more  and view the winning films click below