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Every year the Northern Grid Awards recognise the achievements of schools across the region. These schools are using ICT to support teaching and learning and provide exciting and innovative learning opportunities. This page brings together case studies of some of the successful projects. For information about how your school can enter this year’s awards visit our awards section. The Water Cycle – A Case Study of the Award Winning Project19 August 2011St Peter’s C of E Primary School won the Collaboration through Technology Primary Award with their Partner School, Kilton Thorpe School
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iTouch iLearn - A Year 5 iPod Touch Project19 August 2011Cullercoats Primary School, North Tyneside won the Personalisation Primary Award at the 2011 Northern Grid ICT in Education Awards
The school were eager to move to a child-centred, personalised learning environment, and away from a traditional teacher-centred approach. The CLC provided the school with 60 iPod Touch devices, one for each child in year 5, and the school installed Wi-Fi across the school site as part of a wider ICT refresh - to help ensure each child had unlimited web access anytime and anywhere across the school day. Overall Excellence Winner 2010 - Redcar Community College25 July 2011Redcar Community College was the Winner in the Overall Excellence Category of the Northern Grid Awards 2010. This Case study looks at what they achieved and how they accomplished this, giving valuable insight for schools wanting to improve their ICT integration. You can view the Case Study below or download it as a PDF. 
Also labeled: Awards 2010, Case Studies, Case Study - School-based Innovations and Projects, Guidance, Head Teachers, ICT Tuned In! - A Case Study of the Award-Winning Project22 July 2011
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St Peter’s C of E Primary School is a large primary school located in East Cleveland, incorporating two SEN bases. We deliver a broad and balanced curriculum to pupils aged 3-11, giving opportunities to go on residential trips to the Lake District and local youth hostels for the year 3-6 pupils, as well as a range of after school activities for all pupils until 6pm every evening. We are located by the North Sea and have a vast field and woodland area which can be used as an outside classroom. We are an eco school, and have been awarded Green Flag status. We even have our own wind turbine on the school field, which was the first wind turbine for a primary school in the area. The wind turbine powers our Sports and Arts hall that was built through a successful bid for lottery funding. These facilities enable a variety of sporting events to be held on site, including Kwik Cricket, orienteering, cross country, county football trials and many others.
Emerging technology can often be more commonly associated with a secondary learning environment, and Gavin Storey, (Headteacher, Cullercoats Primary School), and Roger Neilson, Director at Marden CLC, North Tyneside, were keen to investigate if handheld devices could have a positive impact in a primary school learning environment.
This Case Study by Redby Primary School, Sunderland, looks at how their school went about holding an E-Safety Week.
