The Vice Principal’s Blog

Gadget mad Jason Bradbury!

Four of our Year 7 English classes had a special treat yesterday. Jason Bradbury, the gadget mad presenter of The Gadget Show visited the College to promote his first book, Dot.Robot. It’s about Jackson Farley, a digital genius, who is lured by Dot.com billionaire Devlin Lear to join the top secret defence force MeX to help stop the criminial heist of the century. Are Jackson and the MeX recruits as good as Lear thinks? And how does Jackson know quite who to trust when they can never meet face-to-face? You’ll have to read the book to find out! Copies available in the library!

Jason also talked about what robots are, treated the students to demonstrations of some amazing robots he bought along, and organised a robot race. First, he set up an obstacle course using the students bags, chose 3 students who were then told they had to control one of the robots around the obstacles. The winner was the student who could do it in the fastest time. Deborah Odubade of 7C was the winner and received a free signed copy of Dot.Robot. Well done Deborah.

The winner was the student who could do it in the fastest time. Our Year 7s had a great time and Jason rounded off the visit with a reading from his book and a Question and Answer session.

More information about Jason Bradbury, The Gadget Show and his book Dot.Robot can been found on his website www.jasonbradbury.com <http://www.jasonbradbury.com>

If anyone is interested in buying a copy of Dot.Robot, please come to the library, we have some spare copies at £5.99 each.

My name is David Burgess and I was appointed Vice Principal (Curriculum and Standards) on the 1st April 2009. I am very pleased to be taking up this position at Bacon’s College and I am very much looking forward to getting to know Bacon’s students and their families. The previous expereince which I bring to this post includes line managing Curriculum Managers of many subjects areas including the Creative and Performing Arts, Design Technology, Business Education, ICT, Maths, English and Science. I have worked as an Assistant Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher in two secondary schools, one high achieving and one in challenging circumstances. I have lead Specialist Status in two schools and very much look forward to working with Ms Squires and the Digitial Technology Teams here at Bacon’s College to develop the College’s specialism.

You can use this Blog to contact me, in addition to emailing me at burgess@baconsctc.co.uk. I would be very happy to hear your comments, views and ideas about the College and how we can make sure that it is and continues to be an outstanding school. I shall also use this blog to let you know about some of the priorities that I am working on and also to give you an opportunity to give me feedback on specific issues.

Thank you to all the staff and students who have made my first few days at Bacon’s College very enjoyable, when you see me in and around the College, please do stop me to introduce yourself.

Mr Burgess