Posted by Andrew Ferrier on Jul 17th, 2008
Southborough Primary School becomes the latest addition to the growing list of Bromley Schools recognised under the national Becta/NAACE ICT Mark Awards for excellence.
The school’s ICT Mark award was presented by the Bromley Assistant Director for School Improvement, Mrs Merril Hauesler to the Head Teacher Mrs Doreen Fellingham today.
The ICT Mark award paid particular tribute to the innovative work and leadership in ICT with particular reference to the use of video conferencing within the curriculum by the school’s ICT Curriculum leader Mr Ben Beale and the ICT Technical Manager Mrs Mandy Fathers. The school has also been successful in developing curriculum links with schools in China as well as enhancing curriculum activities through virtual ‘educational excursions’.
The ICT Mark also recognises the school’s strengths in pupil assessment using the Systems Integrated Resources (SIR) Learning Activity bank which has provided meaningful data on pupil progress.
“Southborough’s ICT Mark award nationally recognises the excellence of the school’s ICT program delivery for which all the teachers and pupils should be proud” commented Mrs Haeusler.
Posted by Andrew Ferrier on Jul 4th, 2008
[Welsh Assembly report] Courtesy of NAACE Newsletter
The Welsh have been at it too! This report (published in April) contains a useful overview of the current situation, including summaries of success factors in implementation and barriers to successful use of ICT, and specific
recommendations to the Welsh Assembly. Extracts:
This report is the product of a year long series of meetings of the task group established by the Welsh Assembly Government to consider how to take forward the use of ICT in schools. [Hugh Knight (Chair), Schools ICT Strategy
Working Group.]
It is now seventeen years since the invention of the World Wide Web… Yet when we asked a group of young people , through the Welsh Assembly Government’s Model Assembly programme, for their views on developing the use
of ICT in school, they responded:
’there’s too much technology in classrooms’
’teachers don’t use it as well as we do’
’we should be trusted to manage our own use of the Internet’.
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Posted by Andrew Ferrier on Jul 4th, 2008
[Extracts from Becta press release.]
The revised strategy sets out a commitment to ensuring every school, college, university or training provider is ‘technology confident’, placing particular emphasis on achieving this through engagement with learners and parents and the professional development of teachers and trainers. Becta is now tasked with leading and working with education and skills providers, Government and national partners to ensure this ambitious strategy is delivered by 2014.
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Posted by Andrew Ferrier on Jul 3rd, 2008
OCR is hosting the above free conference (see conference program) to showcase the ICT Nationals to interested schools/colleges that are not delivering this qualification at the moment. For more information about this exciting conference please see the attached invitation, which has been sent to many schools/colleges in the South East. We are inviting you (the local ICT consultants and advisors) to this confierence and we would be grateful if you would:
- Make your local schools/colleges aware of this conference via email and/or in person.
- Ask interested centres to book onto the conference by the end of term.
- Feedback to me anything else you think we should be doing as part of this conference.
To book your place at the conference please contact Melissa Hasprey, using the details below:
- By email - melissa.hasprey@ocr.org.uk
- By telephone - 02476 856 163
- By fax - 02476 851 604
