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A Flavour of BBC School Report Day 2010



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Apr30

e-Safety in the News

This topic is really making schools think about how we should keep our young people safe on the internet. There is a Website which gives helpful hints and a snazzy tag line. Click Here

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Mar18

MetroCentre VoxPops on Education

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Here's some footage of the interviews our intrepid roaming reporting crew took at Gateshead MetroCentre on BBC School Report Day.


Interview 1


Interview 2


Interview 3


Interview 4

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Categories: School Report day 2010 , Videos

Mar13

Web TV Recordings...

Here they are - the recordings of the students' live web tv broadcasts. Enjoy!

load into Windows Media Player - right click the hyperlink and copy link location

Dryden School
Web TV Recording
School visit to Beamish
Education in the Past (with Margaret Minns - Whickham Web Wanderers)

Thomas Hepburn School
Web TV Recording
Education in the Present - (with Noel Jackson - Centre for Life)

Whickham School
Web TV Recording
Education in the Future (with Zozo Shuaibu - Kuzari, Sierra Leone)

Education Debate
introduced by students from Thomas Hepburn School, presented by students from Ryton School with a panel of special guests including Professor Sugata Mitra, the Mayor of Gateshead and Cllr Donovan.

Web TV Recording


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Categories: Dryden School , News Stories , School Report day 2010 , Thomas Hepburn Community School , Videos , Whickham School

Mar12

Well Done!

A huge well done from us here at Gateshead CLC to all the students and staff who participated in yesterday's BBC School Report.

I think we can safely say, given the extent of BBC coverage of our day, that it was a huge success!

Thanks for your hard work, good humour and patience. You were all a credit to your schools!

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Categories: News Stories , School Report day 2010

Mar11

BBC News Stars!

Fresh from their fab live interview on BBC News Channel...

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BBC News reporter and students from Whickham School

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Live on BBC News Channel

Our debate ended slightly prematurely to allow a live news piece to BBC News Channel...interviews with some of the students..shame the reporter claimed we were in Glasgow!

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Categories: Dryden School , News Stories , School Report day 2010 , Thomas Hepburn Community School , Whickham School

Northumbrian & Cleveland police top HCMI review

Two of the North East's police forces are among the top in England and Wales, according to a new review.

Northumbria and Cleveland police were both rated "good" in the three categories se by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary. (HMIC)

The findings are due to be published on a national website which will give an overview of police effectiveness.

Durham and Cumbria police also performed well, both receiving two "good" and one "fair" grade.

HMCI has produced report cards that assess each force in three categorises: local crime and policing; protection from serious harm; and confidence and satisfaction.

The forces were graded from "poor" to "excellent", with one to four points being allocated accordingly.
Northumbria and Cleveland police were among only six of the 43 constabularies to score nine points.

Durham and Cumbria each received eight points.

Northumbria chief constable Mike Craik said: "This success is due to the commitment and dedication of all our officers and staff and the support of our partners and the public."

"However, we are never complacent and are always looking to drive our service forward. That is one of the key reasons for our success."

Sean Prince, Cleveland's chief constable, also welcomed the figures, but stressed that there was still room for improvement.

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Categories: News Stories , School Report day 2010 , Thomas Hepburn Community School

New source of electrical power-is this the end of the energy crisis?

By Angus

In stark contrast to the common point of view that energy can only be produced though the turning of a turbine, whether it be through wind or upwardly rising steam, a group of scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have found a previously undiscovered phenomenon that causes powerful waves of energy to shoot through miniscule wires known as Carbon Nanotubes.


In the experiments, the Carbon Nanotubes were coated in a highly reactive fuel, which produces heat during the process of decomposition.
This fuel was then ignited at one end by a high powered laser beam, and the resulting reaction was a fast moving thermal wave travelling at a massive speed along the nanotube.
Heat from the fuel goes into the nanotube, travelling much faster than the fuel itself.
As the heat feeds back into the fuel coating, a thermal wave is created which is guided along the nanotube.
With a temperature of 3,000 Kelvin's, this ring of heat speeds along the tube 10,000 times faster than the normal spread of this chemical reaction. The heating produced by that combustion, it turns out, also pushes electrons along the tube, creating a substantial electrical current.

Could this current be harvested or collected, then fed into the mains?
And is it reliable enough to produce enough energy to quench our ever-growing thirst for energy?

This field of science is still in its infancy and could be the breakthrough that the human race needs to continue harnessing the electrical energy that exists all around us.

I would like to thank the people at Science Daily.com for their original publication of this information.
And the people at MIT for discovering it.

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