Week 8 Term 1

This week we are learning about adjectives on the BBC site for the Do Now section of the lesson.

We have been using the BBC site for nearly a term now and I am beginning to see improvement in the writing on some sites. The skills you are learning in 'Do Now' should be put into practice in your posts ie. adverbs, apostrophes, personal pronouns etc they should be used to improve the quality of your writing, which will give you more marks for JAM. Spell checking of every post is also a must. I have commented before on the use of a lower case 'i' - this is incorrect, it should be a capital 'I' when you are writing about yourself and is 'text talk' which is not allowed in our posts. Although many of you have made a good effort and are improving I would like you to make sure that you include some of these features in your posts this week.

I have uploaded a You Tube video on the basics of PowerPoint so if you forget how to do something you can go in and revise it. It includes backgrounds, adding pictures, text boxes and adding notes pages. This would also be useful for students who have been absent and who need to catch up. You will need to use headphones when you view it. It is located on Learning Resources>Information Management>Year 10>PowerPoint Vids.

This week we are focusing on getting the ergonomic chair and workstation slides completed. Remember that you need to choose a chair from the two you investigated for features and say which one you chose and why. Comment on the features which you liked best about the chair you chose and say what it was about the other chair which you did not like and which put you off chosing that one. You do the same process for the workstation.

You should have time to begin the 'posture' slide this week. Read the Tick Sheet again so that you understand what you need to do for this slide. See me if you are not sure on anything at all.