Up up and away...

This hot-air balloon was spotted from the Junior classrooms' windows early this morning- we thought Sir Richard Branson might be dropping in, but it appeared to be landing somewhere towards Grandborough!

Photography tips- portraits

Two video tutorials with basic tips about how to take good photographs of people.

Olympic Slide Show

Last term, the Thirds and Juniors learned to use Microsoft Movie Maker, making slide shows about Skern Lodge. Here is a slide show made by DRN to celebrate the end of the 2008 Olympic Games. It was made using Final Cut Express, a semi-professional version of video-editing software, and closely related to Final Cut Pro, used by the BBC and many film editors to produce their work. DRN writes:

"The Olympics may be over, but there are plenty of performances of which the competitors can be proud. Continuing a tradition I started at Sydney 2000, when we at BG could of course celebrate the achievement of Katharine Merry winning Bronze, of making a slide show with the best images of the Olympic Games, here is this year's offering... "


Olympics 2008 Slide Show from rogbi200 on Vimeo.

And below, out of retirement for nostalgia's sake, is the Sydney 2000 slide show.

Sydney Olympic Games Slideshow from rogbi200 on Vimeo.

...and the Slide show from Athens 2004.

Athens Olympics 2004 Slide Show from rogbi200 on Vimeo.

These children have been using Wordle to make word pictures about the Olympics.