In order to meet the requirements of the ICT in Schools Standard Fund (formally NGfL) the school has to submit an updated ICT development plan.
The guide lines for the new plan are considerably different from the one required last year.
Please read the following points and adapt them to needs of your school by copying and pasting a copy of this document into Word and e-mail your amended document to TCSC to arrive no latter than 6th June 2003.
Please note that although most of the document can be created from the text provided, there are a number of areas where you will need to gather.
· The School Name
· School Logo/Badge
· School Motto
· Address
· DfES Number
· The statement: "This Policy was last reviewed on: 1st May
2003 by ………. The Policy will next be reviewed by 1st September
2005"
· Develop planning to appear in all subject Schemes of Work
· Produce a timetable for use of the ICT space for all subject areas.
· Encourage all subject staff to attend ICT & cross-curricular
training
· Purchase subject specific software/hardware
· Develop subject specific Intranet/Web pages/Courseware
· Develop home-based access and learning via the school website
· Develop assessment of ICT use in subject areas across the curriculum
· Purchase of classroom presentation resources to enhance interaction
and engagement of pupils i.e. Digital projectors, Whiteboards, Flexicams,
Digital Microscopes, etc.
· Develop the school infrastructure to enable access to the internet
and interactive resources in all teaching areas
· Increase the number of classroom computers to enable greater use
of ICT in all curriculum areas
· Use of ICT to support, enhance and engage all pupils with SEN
· Regular in house monitoring of teaching and learning
· Use of ICT to identify underachieving pupils and target teaching
and support accordingly
State the targets set by the school for 2003/4/5
· Use of regular internal and external assessment (SATs) to identify
pupils with specific learning difficulties
· Use of SATs assessment data to identify and track cohorts/groups
of pupils who are predicted to achieve below Level 4, those who are not
meeting expected progress, and pupils who are on the border line of grade
boundaries to enable focused support from teachers and teaching assistants
· Develop the regular use of ICT within Literacy and Numeracy to
enhance interaction and understanding in teaching and learning
· To encourage teachers to attend nationally identified training
on the use of ICT in Literacy and Numeracy incorporating the strategy messages
in to Scheme of Work and teachers daily planning
· Development of assessment portfolios of levelled work, to improve
the accuracy of teacher assessment
· Development and use of management information systems within the
school, to track, monitor and enable comparisons within the school, LEA
and with national levels of attainment
· use of presentation technology to enhance interaction and engagement
pupils i.e. Digital projectors, Whiteboards, Flexicams, Digital Microscopes,
etc
· Use of regular internal and external assessment (KS3 SATs) to
identify pupils with specific learning difficulties/needs
· Use of assessment data to identify and track cohorts/groups of
pupils who are predicted to achieve below Level 5, those who are not making
expected progress, and pupils who are on the border line of grade boundaries
to enable focused support from teachers and teaching assistants
· Develop the regular use of ICT within all subject areas at KS 3
to enhance interaction and understanding in teaching and learning
· To encourage teachers to attend nationally identified training
on the use of ICT in all subject areas incorporating their strategy messages
in to Schemes of Work and teachers daily planning
· Development of assessment portfolios of levelled work, to improve
the accuracy of teacher assessment and focus upon underachievement
· Development and use of management information systems within the
school, to track, monitor and enable the comparison of data within the school,
LEA, national levels of attainment and information contained in the Autumn
Package
· Purchase and expand the school network infrastructure into teaching
areas with appropriate security/hardware to enable the input and interaction
with pupils assessment data, to focus planning, teaching and learning support
to pupils specific needs
· Develop the transfer and use of information from KS 2 to KS 3 in
all subject areas to enable the school to plan and group accordingly, and
to quickly move the pupils on from their present level of attainment on
entry to the school to their next level of development
· To continue tracking and setting targets from the data throughout
KS 3 and into KS 4
· Development of a system where pupils who are unable to be monitored
using NC levels are able to be tracked through the use of P-Scales
· Make a list the teachers who have completed NOF training
· Make a list of the ICT courses attended either at the DTC or outside
the LEA
· The school's training budget has identified funds and foci to support
the hardware investment in the school and enable teachers to develop competence
in enhanced use and delivery of ICT in the classroom
· NOF and other identified courses will be followed where the need
is identified within the school
· The school has invested in a greater number of PCs, Laptops, Mimios,
Interactive Whiteboards, Projectors, Cameras, access to the Internet etc.
for interactive learning. The focus of the school's training will be supporting
the investment that has been made in the greater range of resources to enhance
the quality of teaching and learning across the curriculum
The school aims to integrate the use of ICT for school management and administration purposes, by enabling access to data for maintaining learning by:
· using data to track pupils progress in relation to individual
and nationally expected outcomes
· regular input and analysis of pupil assessment data, to target
planning, teaching and learning support at the needs of identified pupils
· to use the data to set appropriate learning targets for pupils
and monitor their progress to wards them.
· to access the data system to monitor and track attendance patterns
of pupils, generate attendance investigation letters, review the impact
of pupil holiday patterns and general data collection and analysis
· to generate pupils IEPs quickly and efficiently to inform the next
step of learning for pupils
· to collate and generate SEN data required for learning analysis
by school, LEA and government
· to aid the assessment and reporting process of the school and reduce
the work load of teachers in generating individual pupil reports to parents.
Give quick and accurate access to pupil comments and targets for learning
· to aid the generation of the school timetable and the sharing of
this through individual copies to all staff and pupils. Enabling access
for allocating of teachers to classes requiring cover for absence / courses
etc.
· To communicate with examination boards in the submission of GCSE
and SAT information
· to enhance access to government information and communication through
the use of e-mail and the internet
· to access and download the school Autumn package to aid in school
self-evaluation and data analysis against national standards
· to integrate the administration and curriculum networks through
sharing of common computer server(s), to allow access to pupil progress
and testing information.
the school's ICT facilities will be made available for wider community
use through:
· lunch time clubs with specific daily foci, ranging from e-pals,
game playing, curriculum research, school magazine / newspaper
· after school homework / study clubs
· parental further learning sessions, parental workshops and internet
training
· use by governors to gain access to government information and Bury
Governors website, communication by e-mail to the LEA and Government
· termly careers/employment sessions where parents and community
are invited to use the facilities to research further employment, education
courses and on-line learning
· to develop the school website for 24/7 learning. Homework, class
subject notes and information in relation to learning activities, internet
links and facilities for the electronic exchange of work with teachers
· links to the North West Learning Grid to access on-line educational
support materials for key stages 1 to 5.
· ICT will be used to promote inclusion by the development of a
school web site with access to differentiated learning materials. The site
will contain links to web materials, links to the NWLG which enable access
to a range of appropriate on-line content 24/7.
· Links through the web site and by e-mail will allow the development
of home-school communication and links
· The range of differentiated and interactive materials available
on line and through purchase of software, will be tailored through a managed
individual learning environment (ILE) to suit each pupil's individual learning
needs
· access to learning and learning materials will be enhanced through
the use and purchase of "switches", large computer screens and
other appropriate computer access aids
· Gifted and Talented Pupils:
The use of computers as a tutor - through Integrated Learning Systems (ILS)
will provide a very rich, highly structured individualised curriculum, customising
and expanding each child's experience.
Therefore ILS can be the means to manage both acceleration through content
giving the gifted child the opportunity to interact and explore materials
outside the regular curriculum.
Through the use of the computer as a cognitive tool providing the means
that will enable pupils to transcend the limitations of the mind, such as
memory, in activities of thinking, learning and problem solving.
The use of computers enable the development and practice of higher order thinking skills in following the National Curriculum key areas of "Developing and making things happen" i.e. review, modify and evaluate work as it progresses, "Finding things out" i.e. selecting, classifying, finding and checking. "Developing ideas" i.e. develop, refine, test create, simulate and evaluate variables.
Through the use of Logo it enables more able pupils to test their ideas in a self contained computer environment, where children can test their ideas and hypothesise and experience mathematics in a concrete form. Developing further through the introduction of procedures and recursion. It is the powerful combination of procedures and recursion that opens many possibilities for thought provoking mathematical investigations.
Hypermedia will provide a mechanism for the organisation and presentation of information, i.e. text, images, sound, animation and video material, CD- Roms and the Internet. This enables the gifted child to be challenged by how they present and record what they know and feel in unusual ways. Therefore the expressive repertoire of the students is enormously enriched by the high tech resources.
Through simulations, ICT enables the gifted and talented child real or imaginary situations to explore and investigate. The purpose of modelling a situation is to highlight implicitly the most important elements by including them in the model, making the situation easier to understand and removing some of the clutter and confusion of reality. In this way the child will discover relationships between elements involved, construct their own knowledge and develop an understanding of the key concepts as the underlying model is revealed.
The internet allows the gifted child to express in a particular field. The use of E-mail develops the child's skills of communication at a distance.
The nature of ICT allows changes to be made to work, models, etc. easily, therefore this will encourage the exploration of alternatives. This interactivity is characterised by rapid response and dynamic feedback, evaluation and judgment constantly as the product is being created. This enables the gifted pupil to take the role of the professional.
· Existing Internet policy
· The LEA / ISP provide a degree of security, the school also has
filtering and virus protection software in-place and update annually
· As the LEA moves through its restructuring of broadband provision
the school will gain access to the internet via the North West Learning
Grid which is a "Walled Garden" there by guaranteeing secure Internet
use.
Action by school - revisit the equipment and staff needs/development audit from previous development plan
Action by school - List the areas for development within the school building for network infrastructure development, revisit replacement policy from previous development plan
This is stated in the previous development plan - Unless changes have been made
The school will adopt Bury MBC's the Disposal of ICT Equipment policy.
