Comments for Meldrum Academy Blog

Comment on Scottish Parent Teacher Council – Backchat newsletter 118 by Jon Guthrie

Jon Guthrie — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:31:01 +0000

Of particular interest in the Newsletter to parents of S1 children is the section ‘CfE – Parents voice their Concerns’.

Comment on Stay Safe Online 23/11/210 7pm-8pm by Jon Guthrie

Jon Guthrie — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:56:37 +0000

If you need any incentive to protect your children and yourself take a look at the following article - A cold-calling tech support scam hits a quarter of UK web users

Comment on Feedback by jennytarves

jennytarves — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:59:18 +0000

I think that a section about cooking would be great!
Someone could put on all the HE recipe books so they’re availible
to everyone all the time! Just an idea.

Comment on Bully Corner by ima08russelle

ima08russelle — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:17:42 +0000

bullies are just people who take out their own misery on others. if you are being bullied dont suffer in silence

Comment on Bully Corner by DreamFreedom

DreamFreedom — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:24:41 +0000

Well Bullies look for weaknesses and if you don’t show them any and be strong they will leave you alone quicker. But its best to tell people you trust no mater how small the problem before it snowballs out of control. A lot of people think that it’s ok to do this and it really isn’t! It’s not funny. It won’t make you look tougher. Because really it’s hurting people that maybe are slightly different from you. And Equality is something that should be rememberd.

Comment on About The Blog by The Big Red Button

The Big Red Button — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:30:24 +0000

Yes if you wish to post things submit them this way and we will move them onto the blog for you. Obviously we cannot just allow free access but if what you wish to say or publish is to do with the school and is of interest to other pupils, staff or parents then we will publish it!

Comment on About The Blog by ima06milnem

ima06milnem — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:12:05 +0000

Can pupils write things on the blog and not just leave comments?

Comment on Feedback by kammer

kammer — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:29:56 +0000

would it not be a good idea if the teachers put up their email addresses? not easy to remember IMAsomeone@somethingsomething.something. if mrs macleod could get in contact with me then that would be great.

Comment on Feedback by paulsimpson

paulsimpson — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:30:07 +0000

It’s interesting to read all the comments on network performance. Please keep them coming.

The schools broadband is provided through a WAN link to Woodhill House in Aberdeen and isn’t affected by the Meldrum phone exchange. It’s now changed from 2mb to 10mb. I can get speed of 3mb per second when the network isn’t in use.

Regarding network boot up and logon times, the reason why these are slow is that security settings (GPOs) are applied to each PC at boot up and to each user at logon. The need for heavily restricted networks in schools means the network is slower than a normal unrestricted network.

Comment on Feedback by ima01massiec

ima01massiec — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:34:58 +0000

“Computers with a faster connection speed, maybe broadband”
- SparrowX

Broadband isn’t a connection speed itself, in the same way as you would refer to a “T3″ connection etc.
The Oldmeldrum area is amazingly slow to upgrade to new telephonic systems, so the limit was 56KBps for an agonizingly long time, prompting me to make a cartoon about it a while back.
2.2MBps is undoubtedly the maximum speed as of just now, and divided amongst all the pupils simultaneously using the network it isn’t much.
‘ima05walshj’ might find the blog inadequately slow, but both the school’s upload/download speed seems quite reasonable.
It’s more the network speed that I’d say seems inefficient, often I will end up waiting 5-10 minutes for my computer to fully log on at the start of a period.
Are all the startup programs for a network account necessary? Quicktime for example?

Comment on Feedback by ima05smithe

ima05smithe — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:30:54 +0000

I think that the school blog is quite a good way to see whats going on in the school at the moment. And it gives us a lot of information.

Comment on Feedback by ima05ritchiem

ima05ritchiem — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:30:15 +0000

i think that you should put on more of the bullitin like a calander for early lunch or something like that

Comment on Feedback by The Big Red Button

The Big Red Button — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:13:06 +0000

the only problem also is that usually a whole class might be on at a time – try to imagine that as 30 people trying to talk to you all at the same time – hard eh!!
The School is working on upgrading from its current 2Meg connection to a whopping 10 Meg Connection – that might make a difference as well!

Comment on Feedback by ima05walshj

ima05walshj — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:23:33 +0000

I like the site but the hyperlinks are slow