2012 Olympic Park - 4B take the tour....

Form 4B were treated to a tour of the 2012 Olympic Park at Stratford in East London this week.

For me one of the most interesting snippets of information I learned from our - very well briefed - tour guide is that tickets to the 'Park Only' will shortly going on sale : which I am led to understand means that even if you haven't got tickets to individual events during the Olympic and Paralympic Games this Summer you will still have the chance to attend and watch the events unfold on giant screens set up around the Olympic Park.

It's all very much a work-in-progress  right now and doesn't look very  cosmetically  'pretty' : however all the main structures (Stadium, Velodrome, Aquatic Centre, Basketball arena etc) are complete and the outline of where everything else will slot into place is clearly visible.

There's also the viewing tower : a mighty steel structure with a snaking staircase (some 452 steps I think) and a lift to the double height viewing galleries at the top. The stucture - The Orbit - was being 'unwrapped' yesterday.  It looks.... well.... different against the skyline!

In some ways it's wonderful to see the project now as a construction site : knowing that in a very short space of time the butterfly will emerge from its chrysalis.

There's a huge international media centre, and the athletes' village looks as if it's nearly ready.

The stadium itself will  be entirely surrounded by water, and the wildflower meadows should shortly become a thing of beauty.

Pupils who took the tour yesterday and also have tickets for events this summer are looking forward to be able to see the difference between what they saw this week and what they will see this summer. 

As well as the outline of the BMX area, we could see work on the hockey area and got a brief glimpse into the Stadium itself.  Apparently one thing yet to be announced is exactly where on the site the Olympic Flame will live for the duration of the games. 

Pupils got a chance to tour the entire Park, and took numerous photographs which will now be used to complete their project work on the topic.  We learnt more yesterday about the history of the site, and how our competitors have fared in recent Summer Olympic Games : and what we hope them to achieve this summer.

All in all a very interesting and informative day.  Once all the transport links are in place Public Transport will definitely be the way to and from the venue!

As ever you will find further digital photographs of the day on our Vimeo Channel just click on the image below to follow the link to  www.vimeo.com/channels/mlcreative

 

A little bit of toast.....

One Monday afternoon, the girls in Form 2  created a series of phrases related to living a healthy lifestyle - each letter cut from slices of toast (wholemeal of course!)

Having chosen the most poweful phrases, we then put them in order and created this short animation.

Just click on this image which will take you to our Vimeo channel link https://vimeo.com/35974260

Olympic Park , Stratford, London 2012

Go to work on an egg....

Remember that campaign? 

Yes - I know.  It ages me.... Anyway, as part of our submission to the Make IT Healthy competition in 2012, pupils in Form 4a have been learning how to use Photoshop. 

Recently, they have focused on taking their own image and turning it into an 'Egghead'. 

Lots of work with layers, and Opacity, Desaturation and Colour Balance ( OK - Color Balance as they say in Photoshop). 

It's a slow process, as to get a really good effect you need to work on these layers over and over again - tweaking and re-doing until you get the desired final effect.  Meanwhile, Form 3 continue to work on Fruit Faces : results here soon. 

PS : whatever happened to the 'Lion Mark' ?

Make IT Happy 2012 Milbourne Lodge

All during this term pupils are working on a submission to the Make IT Happy 2012 competition. 

Focusing on healthy living the projects investigate healthy eating, sleep, exercise, sport and emotional well being.

Good Luck Juho!

U6 Milbourne Lodge

We said a fond farewell to Juho from the U6 on Friday, as he's returning to Korea shortly with his family.

Ashness Bridge by Juho

The boys in U6 feasted on hot chocolate and slices of cake - organised by Mrs Bawden.

The icing on the cake showed one of Juho's paintings of  Ashness Bridge -  a traditional stone-built bridge on the single-track road leading from the Borrowdale road in the Lake District.

The view down to the lake from the bridge is famous - in fact it is said that it has appeared on more calendars than many other places in the Lake District.

Good luck Juho - and keep in touch with us all at Milbourne Lodge.
 
Here are a few examples of Juho's Art work.

Oranges by Juho

Food glorious food...

Wow! 2012 has arrived with a flurry of activity for every class at Milbourne Lodge. 

During their Art lessons pupils are continuing to plan the next stage of the Centenary Garden  - they will take part in a series of willow workshops shortly after half-term to create items for  their Sculpture Garden. Pupils have already spent the first few weeks of term planning these sculptures and designs on paper.  They are really enthusiastic and excited about the prospect of a two day  workshop - which will involve all the classes in the main school.  

Max Roberts

Rocco Frame

We're still awaiting the arrival of the remaining Coca Cola bottles so that we may continue to build the eco greenhouse - using a total of 2012 empty bottles. 


Meanwhile, during ICT lessons we have been focusing on healthy living : it's all part of our forthcoming submission to the UK wide  Make IT Healthy competition.

Angelina Kim

We've investigated food groups, and the 'Eat Well Plate ' and pupils in Forms 1R and 1S used some basic Photoshop tools  (and some Googly Eyes) to create 'friendly' fruit and vegetables. 

Zubin Khan

I was really  impressed by their interest in many different types of fruits and vegetables.








Forms 2K and 2S looked closely at food labelling and the 'traffic light system' as well as creating anamorphic images using basic healthy foods as their theme.  

Morgan McLucas created a table to show the breakdown of  1L of Milk, and Leo Mills analysed the labelling on a Yoghurt pot. 




Form 3 also focused on the five main food groups - creating a series of 'Bingo Cards' using these food groups. 

Sleep Diary by Aneirin

Hyunsu Jeong

4a and 4b carefully noted their own sleep patterns, by keeping a 'Sleep Diary' for a full week. They created the diaries as tables in Word.  They then took the raw data and in Excel put together some simple formulae and graphs to show their combined hours of sleep throughout the week. They noted average hours slept as well as working out maximum and minimum totals.  


Finally, they brought all their work together  as a series of  Powerpoint presentationa focusing on how awesome and important sleep is. 




More to follow... So much work has been created  that there simply isn't room to showcase all the projects at once.  I know many pupils are looking forward to seeing their own work online - so will post another blog update for the half-term break tomorrow (Friday)