Wedneday 19th May 2010

Today was another productive day (we seem to be having a lot of them lately). Ben was really good today, organising his group and getting them to do the work - Miss Hoad was really proud of him.

We started by reviewing our company names and logos and created our own headed paper, which was a fairly simple process, but Ryan seemed to spend most of the day on this task, creating his own version of it (which was crappier than the chosen version that we had been using all day). We then thought about some questions for our Theatre in Education project and started to answer those questions in an essay like thing.

Once we had completed our essay's we all completed a questionnaire on safe internet use, that Miss Hoad had found on the 'Think U Know' website. We then used Miss White's Year 7 class to complete the questionnaire too, as they are our target audience and we will be presenting our final Theatre in Education performance piece. We split the class in two and each company took one half and talked with each other about Cyber Safety. Once back in our diploma room E1 I analysed the results for our company and although we did it most of us were surprise to hear that most of them had a Facebook account since Year 5, even though you are supposed to be 13 years old to sign up. And a few of them had actually met up with people that they had met over the internet, which shocked us.

We briefly looked at the websites: www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

and http://clickcleverclicksafe.direct.gov.uk/index.html

and we also watched the video 'Matt Thought He Knew'.

We used the information from the year seven's and discussed as a group what cyber safety means to us. Using the information from both the year seven's and us we began planning our Theatre in Education performance pieces.

We filmed our discussions and planning and will use the footage in our documentaries for our RECORD unit, that we will begin creating after our performance on 30th June 2010.

Next week we have a visit from Annabel, from the Ashcroft Arts Centre to talk about Theatre in Education. Hopefully, she'll be of help (fingers crossed).