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Information Communication Technology (ICT)

The ICT team supports schools to ensure that ICT is used across the curriculum and delivered appropriately as a subject. The team provides a range of services to enable Hertfordshire schools to remain at the cutting edge of developments in technologies that support learning and teaching.

With focus on priority areas, such as personalised learning, the ICT team works closely with schools to help them set clear targets and implement a curriculum that is appropriate to their needs.

Traded services

  • A range of courses and conferences held throughout the year, as advertised in the termly SSE CPD programme and on the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning website
  • Training on software, skills and the teaching of discrete ICT, including assessment and moderation of levels
  • Bespoke training and consultancy for individual or clustered schools
  • Information, support and moderation for schools seeking national accreditation for ICT
  • Support for schools completing the BECTA ICT self review framework and subsequent action planning
  • ICT audits with a full report including strengths, concerns and recommended next steps
  • Support for schools with the development of their web sites and online learning support
  • Guidance on the availability and potential of new technologies for learning and teaching
  • esafety guidance, support and training for teachers, school leaders, parents and governors

Centrally funded services

  • Support for schools experiencing difficulties (as referred by an SEA or SIP)
  • Termly cluster meetings across the county focusing on the sharing of news, national and local initiatives and resources
  • Telephone and e-mail support
  • Guidance, curriculum support, resources and examples of best practice shared across the county via the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning (HGfL)
  • Support for the use of ICT across the curriculum via the HGfL
  • The ICT Team promotes and co-ordinates a range of national and local initiatives, and publishes the outcomes on the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning

For more information please contact the ICT Team on 01438 843463 or visit