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School Based Support

These packages are tailored to your needs and delivered in your own school or consortium. We also offer centre based courses

As former Curriculum ICT Advisers we have a wide breadth of knowledge and resources on which to draw, including an experienced team of Leading ICT Teachers. Our aim is to provide schools with strategic ICT support tailored to their needs. We offer bespoke ICT Continuing Professional Development for all staff in your school, including support staff. Perhaps our whole school ICT improvement package would best suit your needs.

Using a range of course structures we can help you to organise a training and support package for your staff and pupils. These packages can be tailored for individual schools, clusters or consortiums. We offer a series of support sessions or ‘one-off’ courses. To be more cost effective, courses can be delivered to clusters or consortiums where appropriate. Contact us for more information.

Whole School ICT Support - Package
ICT support package to help develop and implement your vision for ICT including strategic development for senior leadership, software and hardware reviews and teacher support.
e-Safety - Half Day
How e-safe is your school? It is essential the whole school community is aware of e-safety issues and the school has a clear policy for dealing with any safeguarding incidents.
Essential Skills - Half Day or Package
Basic ICT skills specifically aimed at the role of school support staff.  The courses are ideally suited to clusters and consortiums of schools where cost can be shared.
Software Audit - 2 visits + comprehensive report
Many schools have software that is often unused or is now not fit for purpose. Without guidance they risk commissioning the same software on a new system.  Unused or out of date software could result in unnecessary expenditure.
Developing an Integrated ICT Curriculum – Half Day
This session is aimed at helping your school develop an up to date ICT curriculum, integrated into all subjects, with materials to support assessment and monitoring.
Using ICT in Art and Design – Half Day
Using ICT in Art and Design can be great fun and highly motivating especially for those children who declare ‘I can’t draw.’ This half day session demonstrates different ways ICT can be used when teaching Art and Design in the primary classroom.
Making Movies – Half Day
Still and moving images are extremely effective tools to engage pupils in learning. When used efficiently they engage and motivate pupils of all levels and can greatly augment teaching and learning.
Podcasting made Easy – Half Day
Podcasting is an excellent way of allowing children to share their work and experiences with a potentially huge audience over the Internet. It is also an extremely effective tool to engage reluctant writers.
Using your SMARTboard Effectively – Half Day
Interactive whiteboards are an extremely effective tool in a 21st century school.  If used efficiently they engage and motivate pupils and greatly support the lesson input for teachers. However, without curriculum focused training for all staff, the boards may just become a very expensive projector screen.

With ICT Mark Assessor accreditation we can help you address areas of development and prepare for the ICT Mark process.

 

Don’t have any inset time available? 

We could work with one lead teacher in the afternoon to give in-depth support and deliver a staff session as a general overview.