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High Noon at Hazelwood20th Oct 2008
High Noon at Hazelwood
The Film Industry Embraces Hazelwood
Post 16 Moving Image Arts students participated in three exciting filmmaking workshops.
• Screen Grabs
Best New Irish Director Mick Duffy was impressed with the talent, skill and enthusiasm of Hazelwood students in his workshop Screengrabs. You got it! Grab the still image from the screen, play with it, edit it. A great hands on film making experience.
• N.Ireland Screen
Northern Ireland Screen is a major player in the local film industry. It funds many of the new film projects. In another string to their bow Hazelwood Students participated in N.I. Screen’s innovative cinematography seminar.
• Script Writers
A script writing day gave our students another angle on the whole process of film making. All the strands of editing, cinematography and scriptwriting are joined together in Moving Image Arts to make it a truly exciting and cool Post 16 Course.
Film Makers in Action
Come and visit the school. When you walk through the corridors you will see young film makers in action. Their films are being shown in festivals and winning awards. Sign up for Hazelwood and you could be signing up for the Movies.
Hazelwood College Leads the Way in Raising Boys’ Achievement. 25th Sep 2008
Hazelwood College Leads the Way in Raising Boys’ Achievement. A year 13 student finds the path and achieves outstanding GCSE Results For many years now in Northern Ireland and across the Western World boys have been underachieving in State Exams compared to girls. In deprived areas of Belfast 80% of young males have no formal qualifications. This had to be tackled. Hazelwood College turns the trend of male underachievement on its head. How did we do it? Send them to us.
In 2008 54% of our boys achieved GCSE grades A*-C. A whopping 15% increase from last year and our boys are now outperforming the girls. A massive 61% of our Year 12 students, boys and girls, achieved GCSE grades A*-C. Well done all!
First of all we made our staff conscious that male underachievement was a problem, not just for boys but for all of us in the College and the local community. Then we got our parents and students on board. Throughout the year the teaching staff introduced a new strategy each month to raise boys’ achievement. Strategies like chunking; breaking work into bite sizes. The strategies worked and here we are. We raised boys’ achievement and got the best GCSE results in the history of the College.
Hazelwood College is set for more and more exam success in the future. We want more boys and more girls to enrol in the College. Send them to us.
60 Laptops for Schools Scheme11th Apr 2008
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The Environment and Society Faculty has also had an install of 20 new desktop C2k computers which will mean they have a fixed and mobile system thus providing staff with an IT facility to implement future work within each of their subject areas.
Exam Information14th Apr 2008
Exam information and GCSE Revision classes now available.
Geraldine Hughes11th Apr 2008
Geraldine Hughes who starred in Rocky Balboa will be visiting the College on the 9th April. See our Home Page for further details.