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MAX 4 HEALTH!

Chloe Ellis, Emily Dorrian, Adam Artus and Jordan Miller in Y11 are working closely with the creators of Max 4 Health and the NHS to develop a teenage website that can be used in schools across the UK.

Max 4 Health is a resource used by hospitals and soon to be used by primary schools across the UK. The campaign highlighted the importance of washing your hands and trying to prevent the spread of MRSA in hospitals. The whole conception was by a combined partnership between VIS-IT, a visual Information Technology company and the NHS to go into hospitals, who are now working with our Y11 students on this Virtual Nurse website.

On Saturday 24th January 2009 the four students attended the Max 4 Health(VIS-IT)offices; spending the day with Tony Gerreli, Director of Max 4 Health, Mark Saunders, Senior Designer and Pat Jackson, Head of Children’s Locality Services for the NHS ‘Brainstorming’ the format of the website and particulars that are involved with the setting up of this project. 

It has also been decided that the four student’s faces; Chloe, Emily, Jordan and Adam will be used as an icon to represent the teenage voice, so when a teenager using the site logs in to discuss different topics about health and so on, they will be introduced to the specific location on the site by one of these students.

Up to date progress of the project will be published in the Herald and online.

Film Crew at Alec Hunter!!

Students who took part in the Rest Centre Project were filmed by and independent film company to highlight Local Government initiatives on Friday 23rd January.

The film will be displayed at a conference for Local Governments across the UK in a couple of months time and will also be shown on the Community channel on Sky, later in the year.

During the afternoon the students rein acted the time last year when they all had to gather information for the booklet, Jemima and Elliot delivering a presentation with the addition of a later interview asking their thoughts on the project and finally two year 7’s, Lewis Drew and Elisha Usher, were filmed using an online educational resource, that has been created by the Braintree District Council.

A big thank you to the following students who took part in the day, you were excellent ambassadors fro the College!

Jemima Paine, Elliot Boakes, Tom Kendall, Bryony Collett, Stacey Dunlop, Fenton Rudkin, Danielle Sewell, Ellen Rose Franklin, Megan Vickers, Luke Durban, Lewis Drew and Elisha Usher.