Congratulations to Normanby Primary School on winning the Overall Excellence in ICT Award 2009!
Judge's Report
Mr Faulkner was appointed 14 months ago (his second headship) and began a whole school initiative to improve ICT, involving children, staff, governors and parents.
They have a pictorial representation of the School Improvement Plan up in the hall – and add photos to it each fortnight to demonstrate and record progress.
ICT is having a positive impact on all aspects of teaching and learning across the school.
In teaching, Mr Faulkner first focused on the provision of tools – he renewed all PCs in school (when he took over only 12 were working across the school). He has embedded the VLE.
He has made handheld learning a focus in Yrs 4 & 5 - the idea is that those children will keep their devices into Yr 6, and each year, Year 4 will be given/subscribe to a device. “It is already having a massive impact”. This was the lowest attaining group in the school – but he took 6 children down to the Handheld Learning conference in London and they quizzed the salespeople about the best devices and collectively opted for the HTC Touch Smartphone.
(One of the judges commented; ‘I have extensive experience of handheld devices and trials – this is the first time I have come across a school including...
In June of this year Normanby Primary School, in Redcar and Cleveland LA, received the Northern Grid for Learning’s prestigious “
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