Our Junior live News Day Team!
Reporting on being a teen in 2018 Boclair style
15/03/2018
Senior team to follow…
Boclair Academy Visit the BBC 09/03/18
A group of Boclair Academy’s current S2’s visited the BBC building to take part in a STEM careers event. They explored a range of media careers using science, engineering, mathematics and Music Technology.
I really enjoyed my time at the BBC; the people there were very nice and explained what they did in their job in a really interesting and fun way. Half of the jobs that they showed us I didn’t even know existed and then the other half I didn’t know they were that fun. It was a really enjoyable time and it showed me these great careers that I might be interested in doing one day. Thank you so much to the BBC for having us!
By Orla 2C
Welcome to the new 2017 School Report Team!
Here at Boclair Academy, we recognise the importance of engaging in world issues that surround us, as well as reporting on our school and local community. To give us the best platform to report our news-stories, we have teamed up with the BBC.
By participating in the BBC School Report project, we will not only be engaging with news-worthy stories, but we will be sharpening our research, discussion and presentation skills. These skills are integral to our development and will be invaluable to us as we enter the wider world of work and further study.
Are potatoes the secret to cancer?
Slow down; don’t throw your fresh spuds out just yet…
New research has shown that when browned, roast potatoes are the secret killer in our everyday meal. The FSA claims when spuds are cooked for too long at a high temperature there could be a fatal threat involved.
When cooked for too long the potatoes go from a brightly coloured golden to a nasty looking black. This is said to give off high levels of acrylamide, a substance which has been linked with cancer in mice.
However Cancer Research UK sees a problem to this accusation. They argue it would take 312 slices of brown toast, crisps or potatoes each day to be at any risk.
It’s not the best idea to rule those potatoes out of your diet, but I would say that you may want to cut down on those delicious Sunday roasts (I know it’s a lot to ask).
Starchy foods like potatoes may not be on the same cancerous level as smoking cigarettes says FSA but scientists say there is a small risk so cook them carefully just to be safe.
To conclude NO, roast potatoes are not the secret killer in our meal they are just fine to have fairly regularly, though scientists are not ruling out the chance of threat…
Written by Calum M 2D
Creative Arts Performance Group – Holocaust 2017
January 2017 National Holocaust Memorial Event
Report written by Callum M 2D
7.2.17
The Holocaust National Memorial event took place on the 26th of January this year in Bishopbriggs Academy. Here at Boclair Academy, we held a local event for the schools in the Bearsden and Milngavie area on the 24th of January. It was about remembering all past genocides and holocausts in the past where situations have been bad and lives have been lost. The Boclair Academy event was being held for the benefit of three schools, Boclair, Bearsden, and Bishopbriggs Academy. The event was in the lead up to the national event at Bishopbriggs, which there will be more about later on. You can listen to an interview with one of the lead actors elsewhere afer this report.
The event started with an amazing performance from a school cellist, Nick Dow, which was accompanied by an audio track, with singers, dancers, and three amazing poets. The poem was read by Megan Woods, Rosa Ferguson, and Olivia Maguire, it was called ‘Then They Came For the Jews’.
During the EDC event, the group listened to a woman called Saskia Tepe tell us a haunting story about how her mother had been captured in Nazi Germany, and she had been sent to Auschwitz, but managed to jump out of an open top train into snow to save herself. She spoke about the troubles her mother faced trying to recover after the war and about how she, herself, was born in a camp for Jewish survivors.
The groups also listened to Umutesi Stewart speak, who was a survivor of the Rwanda genocide. She was forced at the age of thirteen to leave the country and carry her siblings to the Congo jungle losing one of malnutrition and assault along the way. She also had to witness her own mother being burnt to death in their home.
The event in Bishopbiggs Academy was the national event where the same people spoke and an orchestra played alongside a singer to entertain those attending the event. There was also a different East-Dunbartonshire school performing a Jewish psalm.
The Holocaust Memorial Day National Event Local Event East-Dunbartonshire was a very poignant, moving ceremony and many EDC pupils have been educated alongside these events about the horrors of genocide.
Callum 2D6
Calum M, also from 2D conducted interviews with pupils from S2 regarding the Holocauast events.
Here is his BBC School Report Interview podcast, speaking to Megan and Beth about the event.
AUDIO OF INTERVIEWS
January 2017 ‘The Great Barrier Reef’ Podcast 7th February
Max and Stuart in S2 interview Mrs Bone and pupils in their Geography class about the new project on The Great Barrier Reef. They created this first BBC @ Boclair Podcast using Pro Tools in the Music Technology class.
AUDIO OF INTERVIEW
