What We Did in January 2010....

8th January 2010

We went into more detail about our topic, and did a worksheet we had recieved from Miss Uzma. We also discussed about which main issue of Hacking we were going to be focusing, and how we want the problem resolved.

After a lot of discussion, a lot of people got a bit frustrated up on the topic 'Hacking' as it was quite hard to find any recent information on the topic, and we couldn't find anyone suitable to interview.  We got into a disagreement.

15th January 2010

We talked about the strcture we would have to use in the news report, and Miss Uzma showed us a short video made by BBC, which gave certain tips on how to make a news report both short but informative.

We then decided that 'Hacking' wasn't a good topic, as it turned out that many of us did not enjoy working on it. Some of us said that we were not cooperating very well as the topic we were working on wasn't liked, and in order for someone to do something properly and efficiently, it should be something that one enjoys and likes.

After a lot discussion, we decided on a new topic, Animal Testing. Since most of us agreed on the topic, the decision was made. Our director, Hamna, then said that the decision was final, and there would be no more changing of topics after that as we were running out of time....

22 January 2010

We did a draft of the script and did some research on Animal Testing. We also thought of the Interview Questions. We decided that even though we had not yet found someone to interview, it would be more convenient to think of some suitable questions in the meantime.

26 January 2010

We had a meeting in the library while lunch and tried to finish the script.

29 January 2010

Amal did some more research and we discussed with Mis Saba on ways to improve our script. We also found out that Body Shop was one of the many companies that are against Animal Testing and do not use test their products on animals. We decided that we would interview their manager who was based in the UK.

What We Did In December....

4 December 2009

We got into our 3 groups as stated in the previous post. Roles were given out to everyone and we started to think about what we were going to do our news report on. The teachers, Miss Saba and Miss Uzma explained in more detail about how the new report was to be done, and gave us some tips on how to make a good report.

9 December 2009

We decided to meet up in the library while lunch. After some time of discussing and voting, we came up with a topic that seemed quite good and relevent to everyday life. We thought of doing our news report on 'Hacking', but some people didn't agree, and wanted to do the other ideas we had thought of, like Easy Money and Annimal Testing.

10 December 2009

We discussed more about the topic that we wanted to do, and came to a final decision. We then decided to do our news report on 'Hacking', and discussed why the topic was a good one.

Introduction

In Year 8 of Islamia Girls' School, we have been split up into three groups for the BBC School Report. Our group members are:

• Hamna (Director & Blog Writer)
• Safina (Vice Director, Blog Writer & Script Writer)
• Ayunie (Organiser, Blog Writer & Script Writer)
• Asiya (Photographer, Blog Writer & Editor)
• Amal (Presenter, Blog Writer & Researcher)
• Safa (Presenter, Blog Writer & Designer)
• Fatimah (Interviewer, Blog Writer & Researcher)
• Zahrah (Editor, Blog Writer & Facts Presenter)

We have decided to choose the topic 'Animal Testing' because we intend to make people more aware of the fact that animals suffer a lot while being tested on. We think that animal testing ought to be stopped as animals are suffering for unnecessary reasons such as being used to test beauty products.




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