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BBC/SCET School Website
Competition 1999
Ardrossan Academy website has been
chosen as the best in Scotland in a school competition. The
school's website won the secondary school section of a
prestigious competition organised jointly by BBC Scotland
and the Scottish Council for Educational Technology. S1
pupils Sarah Jane Lundie and Lyndsey Barr, who had both
worked on the website, accompanied Mr Todd to the BBC's
Queen Margaret Drive offices in Glasgow on Thursday 13 May
1999 to attend the prizegiving ceremony.
BBC and SCET representatives praised
the Ardrossan Academy website, and the work done by Mr
Dalgleish, PT Chemistry, and his pupils. They were
particularly impressed by the interactive nature of the
site; its Millennium and Archive sections and the fact that
it is regularly updated. Of real note, too, was the ease
with which visitors to the site could navigate within it
without getting lost or confused - a syndrome which affects
many school sites. The website's departmental sections were
also particularly good and extensive.
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BBC
Staff: Chris Jarvis, Tim Vincent and Kate
Heavenor
BBC staff made it plain that
the websites of the schools represented at the
ceremony were streets ahead of the opposition. In
second place was the High School of Stirling.
Primary winners were from as far afield as Dundee
and Angus.
The pupils present at the
prizegiving met and chatted with BBC television's
"Fully Booked" presenters Tim Vincent, Chris Jarvis
and Kate Heavenor, who were all very interested in
the idea that schools had the expertise amongst
staff and pupils to put themselves on the
net.
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After receiving the prize - a new
computer, of course! - and being force-fed with large
quantities of Marks and Spencers sandwiches, the
prizewinning team got back to school, nearly but not quite
in time to attend their Maths class!
Alasdair Todd
Assistant Head Teacher
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