Stop Animal Cruelty

Half a term in to school and we have done all sorts of things already, with some great successes. One of the main projects we are working on is for our Enterprise subject. In essence, the project is to make money and spread awareness of a chosen charity using £50 as starter money. Firstly though, what charity would we support?

Around the world, millions and millions suffer because of major issues that have struck our world. And we realized this. When asked to come up with one charity, my class come up with various charities with a vast variety of goals and ideas. After a full 2 weeks, we came up with our class charity: PeTA.

As they say on their website 'PeTA is a UK-based charity dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. Like humans, animals are capable of suffering and have interests in leading their own lives; therefore, they are not ours to use – for food, clothing, experimentation, entertainment or any other reason.' 

Charity chosen, we planned and discussed, coming up with roles and ideas. Now that is after half-term we have started making items to sell, doing events for awareness, etc. We also have been talking with the charity to give us some merchandise and talking with shops, companies and estate agents such as Lush (who also promote the stop of animal cruelty) to donate samples or products in order help promote the charity. I ,also, as Project blogger am writing about what we are doing on the Giving Nation organization website. This organization is one that lets schools across UK do projects like ours.

So far we raised around £200 from a school cake sale and a 'Popcorn and Candyfloss Wednesday'. With the bag packing we are due to do in the local M&S shop and the Christmas Fair which will include stationary, perfume, make up, cakes and bakes and jewelry, I believe that we can raise around £500 at the end of the the project. The project is a great opportunity that will benefit no only the charity but ourselves :)    

I can code a new world

Back to school today and not excited...Sorry, guys. However my half-term was more exciting. But I wasn't planning my Halloween costume or deciding how to get the most sweets trick or treating. No.

I was going to code..Code a whole new world.

Wait, does making a rock, paper, scissor game count?...No?! Nonetheless, I planned to learn Python, doing the basics first, working through some websites and finally making a game and program. 

I went through the basic such as if and else statements, arrays, lists and functions referring to a website called http://usingpython.com/ which I found was very useful. I did one exercises for each basic info I needed to know throughout 4 days.

Then I made two working programs: 

• Takes away the items in list 2 from list 1 to create list 3 
• Rock, paper, scissors game

Although the first one looks simple, I actually found that one a lot more difficult in terms of finding a solution. Both of them were great fun though.