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Medina House Schools' Garden, Bird Box Camera and additional Surveillance Cameras
As you may be aware last year my class created a garden on a piece of waste ground for all the children to use. At the time our Chair of Governors, who was also my partner Mark Lee, put in many hours helping to dig flower beds, move soil and lay turf in his spare time. Since Mark’s death in September we have been raising money for a wildlife camera, which Mark and I had started to do just before he died, by cycling around the Island. We have had some fantastic support especially from Chale Horticultural Society giving £300, and the Seaview Hotel who had a quiz night in memory of Mark raising £800. This enabled us to buy 3 cameras. Two are situated at either end of the garden and give a view of what happens during the night when animals visit. The other one is in a bird box, some blue tits have made a nest and now we have 5 eggs in it! To view the nest camera follow the links below.
Many thanks to those of you who sponsored Mark and myself to help make this all possible!!!!
Steph Williams
How to access the Bird Box and Garden Cameras
The bird box is setup so footage inside the box can be viewed on a PC/ Laptop or even a mobile phone
on and off school premises through a web address. Please follow the steps below to be able to
monitor the activities within the bird box!!
1. Access any web-page on the internet.
2. Left-click on the address bar at the top of the page (where the address of the website goes). Doing
this will highlight the existing address in blue.
3. Delete the existing address (press Delete or Del) and type following, or just click the link below:
http://cctv.medinahouse.iow.sch.uk:5001
4. If the web address is typed in correctly, you will see a login screen with a username and a password
box. Ignore the password, but the username is: birdcamuser.
5. After you have logged onto the Bird Cam using the birdcamuser username, the screen seems to
crash. This is due to the camera software requiring an add-on to work correctly. The add-on only
needs to be applied once per computer to access the birdcam footage.
The add-on is applied by following the next steps:
a. When the login page crashes, a yellow/Orange bar at the top of the screen still remains. Left-click
this bar
b. Click “Install this Add-on”. Another box will appear
c. Click Install
One more tip for you:
You are able to capture a picture of the image on the Bird Camera Display if you right-click the image
and select “Save current picture as”. Select where you would like to save the picture to, and click “Save”
Happy Viewing!!- Watch this Space
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The Staff did an excellent job clearing the snow away from the car park and pathways around school.
Please take a moment to browse the 2nd newsletter for Aiming High for Disabled Children, by clicking the link below:
Aiming High for Disabled Children Newsletter
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How to use Computers and the Internet- SAFELY
Whether doing research for school projects and homework, chatting with friends or playing games, your child is likely to spend ever more time on the computer as they get older. While they may understand computer programs, surfing the internet, chat rooms and multi-player games better than you do, they still need your guidance.
On the links page I have recently added a number of links to websites with advice on "E-Safety", please find a description of each link below:
www.childnet.com - An excellent website with resources to keep your child safe on the internet. Make sure you look at the "Know it all" resources.
www.ceop.gov.uk - Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre website.
www.thinkuknow.co.uk - The CEOP Centre’s Online Safety Centre providing advice and tips for children and adults of all ages. Contains excellent resources and child-
based video clips demonstrating how to use ICT safely.
www.kidsmart.org.uk - Interactive website for any child and anyone with children or working with children to learn more about the technologies that are used today at school
and in the home.
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Robins trip to China
Robin Goodfellow was invited to join a group of Island teachers, who were travelling to China, as part of an initiative to develop collaboration work between our schools.
Please click on the following links for more information on the Massage Initiative:
Massage Initiative Invitation Letter Massage Consent Form
Click on the following link to see how the Massage Initiative could be of a benefit to you:
Massage Initiative
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Branstone Farm Visit March 2007
In March , Class 7 visited Branstone Farm on the Isle of Wight. Click on the following link to see what they got up to:
Class 7 visit to Branstone Farm 2007
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Fire Assembly November 2006
On the 20th November 2006 the school was lucky enough to have some members of the local Fire Station to perform a very special Assembly for the pupils and Staff members. Traci, a Teachers Assistant from the school is also a Retained Fire Fighter for the town of Ventnor on the Island. She arranged the assembly with one of her collegues, Mat, a full time Fire Fighter, based in Newport. In the assembly we saw the fire fighters dressed in the complete fire fighters outfit, including Helmet and Breathing Apparatus. We saw how the various equipment worked, such as a Fire Hose, B. A. (Breathing Apparatus) and Bleaper to name a few. The pupils were given the chance to dress as a firefighters, and we also had a visit from Wellyphant, to promote fire safety. The assembly was a great success, and we hope to do more in the future.
To see a preview of the footage, click the link below:
Fire Assembly November 2006
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