Recently David Beckham was asked to be the Ambassador of Football for China. Even though he is 37 years of age he can still play well in a suit as was shown on his recent trup to Beijing. He will be there to improve their reputation of football for China. His job will involve teaching Chinese children how to play football. Even though the children know how to watch football they don’t know how to play football. David will be the Ambassador of Football for China until they want a different person to be the ambassador. David will be visiting China every two months.
YouTube Copywrite Issues
By Conner Dudfield
On YouTube there are many rules and regulations such as copywrite which can put hard working You Tubers out of business on the highly favourited website. For one person that means a lot to him and he has over 50,000 subscribers. His name is Daniel Bull. It is basically his job yet he almost got sued for an audio clip involved in his music video. And of this he is now hated by most of the other musician’s fans.
Quality Improvement Officer impressed with visit to Lourdes
On the 21st of March 2013, Mrs Innes the Quality Improvement Officer for Glasgow City Countil visited Lourdes Secondary School in Cardonald, Glasgow.
Mrs Innes has visited 13 schools in Glasgow including Lourdes over the last few months. She doesn’t just visit Secondaries but also visits primary schools, nurseries and disability schools too. Continue reading Quality Improvement Officer impressed with visit to Lourdes
Scottish Independence
We went about our school asking teachers and senior pupils whether they wished Scotland independent or not. We also asked if they agree that 16 year olds could vote.
47% Said that they would vote for independence.
53% Said they wouldn’t.
50% Said 16 year olds should be able to vote.
50% Said they shouldn’t.
The Hydro
Knife crime at all time low
By Conner Dudfield
Knife carrying in Glasgow is at an all-time low thanks to the Strathclyde police department in Glasgow. They have managed to drop the crime rate connected to carrying a knife bellow 780 people caught carrying a knife compared to last years amount of 1108. As of now the Strathclyde police department are trying hard to have a minimum of crime rate connected to carrying a blade or sharp weapon. The maximum penalty for carrying a knife is 4 to 5 years in jail. Continue reading Knife crime at all time low
Glasgow Comedy Festival
From the 14th to the 31st of March, many comedians will come to Glasgow to perform in the Glasgow Comedy Festival 2013.
Some of the comedians/comediennes taking part in the festival include:
• Al Murray
• Andy Parsons
• Marcus Brigstocke
• Chris Addison
• Craig Hill
• Des Clarke
• Harry Hill
• Katherine Ryan
And many more…
Venues
Some of the venues include:
• Cineworld
• The Garage
• The King’s Theatre
• Maggie May’s
• Old Fruitmarket
• The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
• Tron Theatre
• Clyde Auditorium
• Grosvenor café
• Grosvenor cinema
• Oran Mor
• The Tall ship
• BBC Scotland Centre
• Citizens Theatre
And lots more…
There are always many things happening in Glasgow, it is a wonderful and interesting city. I hope you now have a taster of the sort of things this city hosts.
Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014
What is happening in the city of Glasgow?
There are many interesting thing happening in Glasgow now and in the future. Here are some of the events happening in and around Glasgow soon.
The 2014 Commonwealth Games (officially the XX Commonwealth Games) will be held in the city of Glasgow over 11 days of competition. The games will begin on the 23rd of July and end on the 3rd of August.
Venues
There will be 14 venues used for the Games including the Athlete’s Village. Here are the venues that will be used:
• Celtic Park – Opening Ceremony
• Emirates Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome
• Hampden Park
• Tollcross International Swimming Centre
• Royal Commonwealth Pool
• Scotstoun Sports Campus
• Strathclyde Country Park
• Barry Buddon Shooting Centre
• Kevlingrove Lawn Bowls Centre
• Cathkin Braes Mountain Bike Trails
• Glasgow Green Hockey Centre
• Ibrox Stadium – Closing Stadium
• Athlete’s Village
Sports
There are 17 sports in total. Here are the sports athletes will be competing in:
• Aquatics
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Boxing
• Cycling
• Gymnastics
• Hockey
• Judo
• Lawn Bowls
• Netball
• Rugby Sevens
• Shooting
• Squash
• Table Tennis
• Triathlon
• Weightlifting
• wrestling
School Isn’t a Joke
School Isn’t a Joke
You might have your whole life planned out how you want it: you know who you’re going to marry, what your wedding will be like, what your job will be, how much money you’ll have, but if you don’t take school seriously then you can jeopardize your chances of achieving that. You might not get the job you want, meaning less money and because you haven’t studied for other jobs so therefore it is hard to find one that you are able to do.
Most school pupils think that school is just a big joke. They think that you can turn up, learn a few things, behave how you like then suddenly get your dream job without any effort but the world of work doesn’t function that way. Every punishment exercise, referral or late slip you gain gets saved on a file which employers or universities look at when you apply. If you want to be a hard job like a lawyer, doctor etc. you are up against a lot of hard working people who have never been in trouble while you might have had a few punishment exercises or referrals. When it comes to who employers or universities decide to take on you will not stand a chance against them. Each decision you make in these thirteen years of school decide the rest of your life.
The subjects you chose and how well you do them give you the grades you need to take a degree in whatever career you want to have. If you do badly in exams because you ‘couldn’t be bothered’ studying or thought you would remember everything then you wont get the grade you need to have that job. The marks you get on tests are also saved on your file so if, for example, in your maths test you get 35% because you thought you are only in first year and your results don’t matter till fifth or sixth year you are wrong. Also, with the new curriculum for excellence, your results depend on whether your are national four or a national five student.
Do you really want to live the rest of your life below the standards that you are capable of achieving because you thought school didn’t matter?
‘Madness’ in George Square
The revamp of George Square has been branded as ‘madness’.
George Square is due to have a £500,000 redesign for the Commonwealth Games but it is to be ripped up right after the Games.
John McAslan who won the ‘winning’ idea has asked councillors to think about if it is worse spending £500,000 on something that will last for two weeks. He also said, “The idea that they would replace pink Tarmac with grey Tarmac for the two weeks of the games then rip it up seems to me to be absolute madness. They might as well kiss goodbye to £500,000.”
The idea of redesigning George Square has been a mess since it was first thought of. The architects of the designs that were chosen have been confused since the start as city officials have changed their minds about whether the plan is to go ahead or not.
A council spokesman said, “I’m sure Mr McAslan is as disappointed as we are that we weren’t able to progress with his design. However, the people of Glasgow made it abundantly clear they were not interested in a radical redesign of the square. In fact, we have listened to the people of Glasgow and are replacing the red Tarmac, retaining all the statues and introducing more greenery.”
The plan to upgrade the square will happen in two phases. The first phase involves replacing the Tarmac, introducing more greenery and fitted lighting for the statues which will be cleaned. The second phase will see the grey Tarmac being replaced with granite which will cost £15million.
The revamp in total will cost Glasgow about £15,500,000.
