SLAM! 18th - 21st January
Slam! is an exciting four day event for Fourth Form pupils. A packed schedule guides groups of pupils as they learn about a particular topic and create a series of webpages about it. By Saturday pupils will have learnt a lot about the developments in the early part of the twentieth century that have made us the modern society we are today.
It will be an exciting, action-packed few days - completely different from normal school lessons, but pupils will be using skills from all of the subjects they do to look at this period of history is a completely new way.
Slam! encourages pupils to work independently, using their own initiative and creativity; it allows them to manage and organise their own efforts; and to work together effectively and responsibly, using all the talents and interests in the group.
A snapshot of the schedule's content:
Topics pupil groups may choose from
Schönberg
The Atomic Bomb
Ammonia
Communism and Socialism
Kandinsky
Humanism
Le Corbusier
Henry Ford
The Festival of Britain
The Science of Genetics
Turing
Special talks to supplement the topic material
Electrons 'R' Us (physics)
Stinks and Bombs (chemistry)
Democracy (politics)
Any Colour You Like (consumerism)
Driven to Abstraction (motion in modernist art)
Make Mine Spcial (individualism in mass production)
Radiation Therapy (effects of nuclear explosions on the human body)
Organisation and Chaos (musical genres)
Can Machines Think? (computers, brains and Turing)
The Day Poetry went Crazy (changes in poetry after 1910)
On the first day of Slam!, Kevin Jackson, writer, producer and Channel 4 broadcaster, introduced the pupils to the four-day project by giving a talk entitled Why are we what we are?