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purple dolphin

Aug 22 2005, 03:34 PM

Is everyone here taking a DT subject? And what out of DT are you doing? We have to do a DT and I'm doing Food.

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 22 2005, 03:35 PM

Mine has the worlds worst b.o. problem so you cant really concentrate...I only took history because i was really good at it in 7,8, and 9 because we had a good teacher...

Oddball

Aug 22 2005, 03:36 PM

Year 11 does sound scary....I mean, year 10 passes really quick, but I dunno if this year will as well

I'm taking Graphic products. Wish I'd taken food now, I'm so much better at cooking than drawing

Choddy

Aug 22 2005, 03:37 PM

im doing food technology... but i liked history in year 7 because i had the best teacher, and then in year 8 and 9 i had the worst teacher, and i began to hate it!! and he was also my head of year and was way too big for his boots

purple dolphin

Aug 22 2005, 03:37 PM

lol. We can't take graphics at our school even though we are a tech college. But even we did, I would still probably take food.

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 22 2005, 03:38 PM

QUOTE(Oddball @ Aug 22 2005, 04:36 PM)

Year 11 does sound scary....I mean, year 10 passes really quick, but I dunno if this year will as well

I'm taking Graphic products. Wish I'd taken food now, I'm so much better at cooking than drawing

I so wish i'd done food too instead of economics, i didnt do a single practical subject <groan>

purple dolphin

Aug 22 2005, 03:38 PM

We had our head of year for maths last year, and she kept distracting us from our work by asking us what we thought of her assemblies and stuff. We won't have her this year though, luckily.

Oddball

Aug 22 2005, 03:38 PM

Graphics is rubbish, because hardly any of the computers work, we don't have an A3 printer, and it costs loads to get your work blown up to A3 size by a photocopier....

Choddy

Aug 22 2005, 03:38 PM

food is good. i might be able to offer up some nice meals in the Cafe lol.
and we're a History, Maths and ICT college and history and ICT are the worst taught subjects in the whole school!!

Oddball

Aug 22 2005, 03:40 PM

We're a performing arts college, but the music department is getting quite bad....it was good, we have a recording studio, 2 classrooms and 3 practice rooms...but....instrument wise it's not great

and it's all getting damaged by certain people

purple dolphin

Aug 22 2005, 03:41 PM

We have ICT sponsorship, but we don't have any timetabled ICT lessons until we get to yr 10! They do it on this rota type thing where a year group at a time have one lesson a week off timetable to do ICT, and it switches between yrs 7, 8 and 9 between the terms.

Choddy

Aug 22 2005, 03:42 PM

well check out my music department - 1 teacher without a degree in music and who can't even tune a violin, 1 room with 10 keyboards and an out of tune piano which used to be the school garage, and a rolling blackboard, when apparently "every teaching room in the school has an electronic whiteboard"... well i suppose not much teaching goes on in that room. that's why im not doing GCSE music.

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 22 2005, 03:43 PM

Our music house got broken into last year and loads of computers and software got stolen..

Choddy

Aug 22 2005, 03:45 PM

at least you had computers and software

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 22 2005, 06:55 PM

lol...3 computers in the music house, but now Sibelius has been installed on all the ict room computers too! The pianos are really good at school though, you can randomly go find one to play at lunch and stuff...

we didnt even have ict lessons in year9!

Choddy

Aug 22 2005, 07:04 PM

sibelius! you'd be lucky to get that on even one computer at my school, let alone all of them! and we only have one piano, which hasn't been tuned for about 3 years, and it's been wheeled across the yard and upstairs and downstairs so much for concerts etc that it's utterly useless now!

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 22 2005, 07:10 PM

aww...poor you! But at my school you kind of feel embarrassed playing on the piano if you're not that good...some people are amazing!

My friend loved Sibelius when we were doing gcse and she wanted to buy it thinking it was about Â£50 but then got told it was Â£400...

Choddy

Aug 22 2005, 07:18 PM

I know it's such a stupid amount! The music room at my school is always locked (apart from for lessons, obviously!) so I never get to go in, apart from Jazz Band on a Wednesday lunchtime! We entered Music For Youth with a band of 10, and got seriously whooped by a 46 piece jazz band from Chester.

purple dolphin

Aug 22 2005, 08:14 PM

All of our music room, and some of our library computers have Sibelius 3 on them. Plus we have a grand piano in the music room, plus another in the hall, plus other upright pianos dotted around in convenient places (practise rooms, drama studio etc) Our form was lucky enough to have the maths computer room as our form room last year, and the nice ICT people put a copy of sibelius on one of those computers for us and our form tutor (who was a music teacher) to use.

nicki_flute

Aug 22 2005, 08:29 PM

Our school has 1 music room, 4 practice rooms which are falling apart and a "studio" with keyboards and guitars in. No computers, no Sibelius. 1 teacher who is good but is disorganised and has personal problems.

Choddy

Aug 22 2005, 08:32 PM

I'm so jealous

But, having said that, when we got our specialist status, we got Â£400,000 which is being spent on a state of the art concert hall/studio, which should be finished by the end of next academic year, so I'll have the whole of year 11 to benefit from it! Hopefully it comes with a teacher who actually HAS a degree in music

Noodelz

Aug 22 2005, 09:00 PM

We have one grand piano in the hall which is locked and has not tuned for a few decades. There's two and a half (it's literally half a piano) more around the school. The practice rooms are rubbish but supposed to be getting a makeover in the holidays. Our music room is good, lots of computers but no sibelius. Instead we have a "mastering music" thing. Teacher is good but his claims of working with Tom Jones, he used to be in a famous rock band and knowing lots of famous people are while valid, a little too far fetched for any of us to belive. Lots of keyboards and equipment though.

Oh yeah, my school won the MTV music video awards. Even though I had no part of it what-so-ever, I'm very proud.

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 23 2005, 08:44 AM

QUOTE(Noodelz @ Aug 22 2005, 10:00 PM)

Oh yeah, my school won the MTV music video awards. Even though I had no part of it what-so-ever, I'm very proud.

WOW!

nicki_flute

Aug 23 2005, 09:10 AM

QUOTE(Choddy @ Aug 22 2005, 08:32 PM)

I'm so jealous

We're a specialist sports college, and whilst I appreciate this (playing netball as well), I'd rather have a really good music department.

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 23 2005, 09:16 AM

We're an all girls private school, i think the music departments ok but the building (victorian) that its in is falling apart, we're all advised not to go near the windows...

YetAnotherPianist

Aug 23 2005, 11:32 AM

QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Aug 23 2005, 10:16 AM)

We're an all girls private school, i think the music departments ok but the building (victorian) that its in is falling apart, we're all advised not to go near the windows...

Off-topic but - have a look at the glass in the windows. It'll be thicker at the bottom of the panes than at the top - glass slowly sags over many years.

Oddball

Aug 23 2005, 11:51 AM

QUOTE(YetAnotherPianist @ Aug 23 2005, 11:32 AM)

QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Aug 23 2005, 10:16 AM)

We're an all girls private school, i think the music departments ok but the building (victorian) that its in is falling apart, we're all advised not to go near the windows...

Off-topic but - have a look at the glass in the windows. It'll be thicker at the bottom of the panes than at the top - glass slowly sags over many years.

Glass is a liquid, is it not?

YetAnotherPianist

Aug 23 2005, 11:57 AM

QUOTE(Oddball @ Aug 23 2005, 12:51 PM)

Glass is a liquid, is it not?

Exactly. It's quite normal to flip old glass over every 50 years or so to even things back out. Due to this sagging, at schools one can easily spot panes of glass which have been replaced due to having been smashed with footballs etc.

nicki_flute

Aug 23 2005, 12:17 PM

QUOTE(YetAnotherPianist @ Aug 23 2005, 11:57 AM)

QUOTE(Oddball @ Aug 23 2005, 12:51 PM)

Glass is a liquid, is it not?

I never knew that.

Noodelz

Aug 23 2005, 12:18 PM

Glass is a liquid? I have to catch up with my science.

Talking of liquids and solids, I heard custard can be a liquid and a solid at the same time.

YetAnotherPianist

Aug 23 2005, 12:37 PM

QUOTE(Noodelz @ Aug 23 2005, 01:18 PM)

Talking of liquids and solids, I heard custard can be a liquid and a solid at the same time.

It's a non-Newtonian liquid. Custard is a suspension of grains of cornstarch in water; if you punch it, or otherwise impact it, the water is pushed out from between the grains of cornstarch and it momentarily behaves as a solid. Once the impact is over, though, the water comes back in and it behaves as a liquid again.

I once saw on a science programme (Braniac, for those concerned) someone run across a swimming pool full of custard. To prove the point, they stopped moving and sank down up to their knees. Getting out proved tricky, though, as the harder one tries to move in the liquid the more it acts like a solid and stops one from moving

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 23 2005, 12:40 PM

QUOTE(YetAnotherPianist @ Aug 23 2005, 12:32 PM)

QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Aug 23 2005, 10:16 AM)

We're an all girls private school, i think the music departments ok but the building (victorian) that its in is falling apart, we're all advised not to go near the windows...

Off-topic but - have a look at the glass in the windows. It'll be thicker at the bottom of the panes than at the top - glass slowly sags over many years.

ooooh! I'll check!
Is custard like cornflour?Has anyone tried that thing where you add a tiny bit of water to cornflour and it behaves all weird...

Noodelz

Aug 23 2005, 12:41 PM

Oh yeah, now I remember. I saw that programme didn't I.

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 23 2005, 12:45 PM

ummm...probably!I remember it from a kiddy prog i saw when i was about 11!

YetAnotherPianist

Aug 23 2005, 12:50 PM

QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Aug 23 2005, 01:45 PM)

ummm...probably!I remember it from a kiddy prog i saw when i was about 11!

I think I saw a programme once with Fearn Cotton doing a similar experiment, running along a small trough of cornflour. The theory was the same, but the showmanship wasn't anywhere near as fun - the sight of half a dozen cement mixers making industrial custard is quite something

cecilia

Aug 23 2005, 12:52 PM

QUOTE(YetAnotherPianist @ Aug 23 2005, 12:50 PM)

I think I saw a programme once with Fearn Cotton doing a similar experiment, running along a small trough of cornflour.

I saw that! But I'd like to see the other one...

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 23 2005, 12:53 PM

I wanna see the custard one too! I've always thught...running in a swimming pool is hard but through a pool of custard...

cecilia

Aug 23 2005, 12:54 PM

QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Aug 23 2005, 12:53 PM)

I wanna see the custard one too! I've always thught...running in a swimming pool is hard but through a pool of custard...

I'm terrible at swimming so in junior school I used to have to do a walking race at the whole school swimming gala... that always took ages because it was so difficult and slow!

YetAnotherPianist

Aug 23 2005, 12:55 PM

QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Aug 23 2005, 01:53 PM)

I wanna see the custard one too! I've always thught...running in a swimming pool is hard but through a pool of custard...

Well, run on a pool of custard. I can only assume that running in custard would be impossible (non-Newtonian etc.)

YetAnotherPianist

Aug 23 2005, 12:56 PM

QUOTE(cecilia @ Aug 23 2005, 01:54 PM)

I'm terrible at swimming so in junior school I used to have to do a walking race at the whole school swimming gala... that always took ages because it was so difficult and slow!

Oh good, it's not just me who's terrible at swimming! I have negative buoyancy (silly dense bones apparently), so have a natural tendency to sink like a stone. My dad has it too; once he went diving and didn't need a weight belt

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 23 2005, 01:02 PM

What do you mean run ON custard?Run on the skin or something?

YetAnotherPianist

Aug 23 2005, 01:04 PM

QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Aug 23 2005, 02:02 PM)

What do you mean run ON custard?Run on the skin or something?

If one tries to run across custard, the impact between one's feet and the surface of the custard is enough to make it do the non-Newtonian thing of behaving like a solid for a second or so, enough to have made the next step.

janexxx

Aug 23 2005, 01:15 PM

My custard behaves like a solid when in the jug

One lump or two???

Oddball

Aug 23 2005, 01:17 PM

QUOTE(janexxx @ Aug 23 2005, 01:15 PM)

My custard behaves like a solid when in the jug

One lump or two???

I prefer slices

janexxx

Aug 23 2005, 01:19 PM

Mmmmm yes Custard slice anyone??

*hands round plate of custard slices*

nicki_flute

Aug 23 2005, 01:21 PM

Yes please

Oddball

Aug 23 2005, 01:22 PM

Are there any Rammstein fans around?? I've just discovered the song Kuss Mich....it rocks!!!

janexxx

Aug 23 2005, 01:26 PM

QUOTE(YetAnotherPianist @ Aug 23 2005, 02:04 PM)

QUOTE(crazy_purple_piano_freak @ Aug 23 2005, 02:02 PM)

What do you mean run ON custard?Run on the skin or something?

Can I just check something before I fill a big tub with custard and attempt to walk across it.

Is this like "Birds" custard made with cornflour, or is it the "real" custard made with eggs and milk. I love custard, but would not want to drown in my tub.

YetAnotherPianist

Aug 23 2005, 01:31 PM

QUOTE(janexxx @ Aug 23 2005, 02:26 PM)

Anything with something starchy in it, like cornflour. I think you can cheap out on the custard and just buy packets and packets of cornflour actually....

crazy_purple_piano_freak

Aug 23 2005, 01:32 PM

ooooh! weird...<takes custard slice!>

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