More musical excellence we shouldn't overlook . . .

[WC1]

While we're in the business of recognising musical excellence, could we pay tribute to the work of Chris Ashall with the choirs at CGS? Her Senior Girls' Choir won the Anne Wiseman Trophy for secondary school choirs at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Monday 13 March, competing in the Glasgow Music Festival. This means the Wiseman Trophy will be
filling a space in the CGS trophy cabinet for the second year in a row! The Intermediate Choir, by the way, took third place in the same contest. Well done to Chris and the young ladies who took part.

And let's not forget the school wind band - an ensemble that was British Champions in its early days, when the woodwind was as strong as the brass. It's a couple of months ago now, but the CGS Concert Wind Band made an immense contribution to the Variety Club of Scotland's annual Carol Service in Glasgow in December. The new instructor, Jacqueline Fitzgibbon, is bringing the woodwind back up to strength and developing the full, symphonic wind band sound again, and very fine it is too.

So, with the juvenile and novice juvenile pipe bands, the senior, intermediate and junior choirs and the senior and junior wind bands, music is doing pretty well at CGS, even if we don't (yet) have a website!

[Ship called Dignity]

Cheers WC1 -would be great if more people would post their news on the forum. Been trying to encourage people to post but....

[Malky]

And photos are good too. It's always nice to see photos

Also WC1, thanks for promoting the forum in the school newsletter

A school website..... hmmm, have you thought about content management? Once installed, a content management system will take care of the layout of your site and you can add and update the content easily using your web browser. In fact, I wonder if you know that the S3 students doing World of Work (IT option) with me at Argyll College, have installed and setup such a system and are currently adding content to it. The content is mostly animation.

Malky

[jane59]

I`d just like to say Malky ,my nephews working on that animation programme and he showed me their website ......very good.....lets hope they stick at it .......I got tips from him too......big thanks

[Ship called Dignity]

Also WC1, thanks for promoting the forum in the school newsletter

Excellent! What was said about the forum?

A school website..... hmmm, have you thought about content management? Once installed, a content management system will take care of the layout of your site and you can add and update the content easily using your web browser. In fact, I wonder if you know that the S3 students doing World of Work (IT option) with me at Argyll College, have installed and setup such a system and are currently adding content to it. The content is mostly animation.

Malky

Got to say Malky - totally agree - content management is the way to go if you are looking to change the website on a regular basis or want others to do it. Although not content management that is why I started the forum as I realised I could update it easily and let others add their comments too!

[WC1]

Listen guys, this is all getting far too technical for the likes of me! When it comes to computers I'm not much past the stage of switching it on and scratching my head. Where is the any key anyway?

We do have plans to have a school website up and running shortly (well, before the start of the new session at any rate). The third year will no doubt keep us right as to how to go about it!

[GarySutherland]

I wonder if you know that the S3 students doing World of Work (IT option) with me at Argyll College, have installed and setup such a system and are currently adding content to it. The content is mostly animation.

What's the URL, Malky? Some of those kids I saw last year had real talent in that direction.

Cheers
Gary

[Malky]

What's the URL, Malky? Some of those kids I saw last year had real talent in that direction.

Cheers
Gary

That was last years lot you saw Gary. This is a new bunch that are currently doing the website and animation.

I don't want to give the URL out at the moment as we have a bit of tidying up to do on the site. There's missing images etc. that I want sorted first. As soon as that's all done I'll happily post it here.

Jane59, sometimes the students are teaching me

Malky

[Malky]

While I remember, I'd better post the link to the website the World of Work students did.

http://www.monkeybreath.co.uk

With the strike on Tuesday, we didn't get it all finished but it's not bad.

Malky