On the first day, the focus of the project was ‘smoking’ and students were asked to work as a group to write a song. They decided to write the lyrics from the point of view of trying to persuade a close friend to give up smoking. Matt gave a demo of freestyle MC-ing, with students shouting out words that he then used in his lyrics. This was amazing to listen to and really inspired the   students. Pete then helped create a track for the backing using ideas given by students. Once the lyrics for the song had been written, the lines were split up amongst the ones that felt brave enough to Mc and the song was recorded.

On the second day, the focus was to create a radio show about alcohol. Students worked in a similar way to the first day, creating a track using Reason software and then writing lyrics for their song. Finally, they interviewed each other about their experiences of alcohol and this was recorded to make the radio show.

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On Thursday 19^th June, 4 year 7 students accompanied Miss Gaunt and Mr Bright to the Kent ICT Conference to present on the theme of home access to ICT.

The audience was made up of Head teachers and senior teachers from Primary and Secondary Schools across Kent. They were interested in finding out more about the Malling School’s laptop scheme which currently involves all of year 7 (years 7 and 8 from September 2008)

Emma Skinner explained how the laptops work at home and at school while Lara Rufus and Jim Oliver gave a demonstration of how languages and maths websites help them learn.

Finally, Jake Denton showed how to access information from the web and use it to enhance his work.


Below are the Video Clips used on the day...