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  • Claudia

    Claudia

    It inspires me how the athletes ensure their disabilities don’t stand in the way of their dreams and hopes

  • Jake

    Jake

    I'm interested in how big events like the paralympic games get reported, particularly in using social media

  • Joe

    Joe

    By reporting through social media, I hope to improve my writing and gain filming skills I can use in the future

  • Kimberley

    Kimberley

    I love writing and using photographs to capture my mood. How can we make the London 2012 games our own?

  • Renaye

    Renaye

    I want to develop my media skills, and gain inspiration for my Humanities exam in Culture later this year

  • Steve (A New Direction)

    Steve (A New Direction)

    Steve is a member of the A New Direction team and will be blogging on behalf of the organisation

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In March 2010, five students from Stoke Newington School & Sixth Form and A New Direction reported live from the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games.

Vancouver content is now archived on their individual blogs (follow the links) as the group now blog about the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games as part of A New Direction's Headstart programme - read on for more...

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How are Personalities formed and is there such thing as the ‘best’ personality type?

Posted by renaye at 31 March 2012 23:21

Title: How are Personalities formed and is there such thing as the ‘best’ personality type? Since choosing to study AS psychology and AS biology I was slightly disappointed that none of my AS content covered neurology or the processing of the human brain. Although we have vaguely touched on neurotransmitters, in psychology I was hoping [...]

EPQ-Further Thoughts

Posted by renaye at 27 March 2012 10:50

Okay, so I recently stumbled across a YouTube video last week on Derren Brown’s website. The video featured Susan Cain, an American writer,lectuer and best selling author discusing the power of intoverts during one of her lectures. Personality types has and still is a great intrest and mystery to me. Form the fisrt time I pick up [...]

EPQ(extended project qualification)

Posted by renaye at 18 March 2012 19:28

So, last week I attended a meeting at my sixth form about  the Extended Project Qualification. I found it really intersting because we are required to base our project on the topic of- ANYTHING! So far i have considered the following topics -Introverts Vs Extroverts -London 2012 Olympics and its Legacy -Validity of the A-level sytem [...]

THE JAKE REPORT HAS MOVED

Posted by cakejakesnake at 23 February 2012 20:14

As you may have noticed upon your travels my blog address and title were a little out of joint, unfortunatly I haven’t the money for an automatic redirect so this will have to suffice. NEW BLOG URL: thejakereport.wordpress.com It looks exactly the same, just it doesn’t say cakejakesnake up top!

Olympic Sustainability Commissioner Resigns Over Dow Stadium Wrap

Posted by cakejakesnake at 26 January 2012 22:16

Questions over the decision to accept the sponsorship of the Olympic Stadium ‘wrap around’ from Dow Chemical were brought back into the spotlight yesterday as Meredith Alexander head of policy at ‘ActionAid’ resigned from her role as board member of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 live on Newsnight. Her resignation came in protest at the involvement of [...]

200 (or so) Days to Go

Posted by cakejakesnake at 10 January 2012 18:59

Yesterday was, as you may be forgiven for having missed, an auspicious day. Why? Yet another Olympic milestone was passed as it was 200 days before the start of the Olympics, marked by what will no doubt be an extravagent and impressive Opening Ceremony. The white elephant in the room? The Olympics are starting to [...]

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Audioboo

  • Our friend the student torch bearer

  • Britannia secondary

  • Waffles!!! With Kim , Claudia and Jake

  • Jake's boo-off to sightsee!

  • Renaye and Kim jetlag at the airport

  • Chicago airport

  • Training boo - Vancouver here we come!

  • Grand design

  • Vancouver 2010 - documenting the games via audioboo and other platforms

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