Aug 2008

Dewhurst School

Children on a residential school trip created daily podcasts and posted online videos and photos to keep their families up to date with their adventures.

KS2 (Relevant to all)
ICT, cross-curricular

Podcasting

Aug 2008

Barnwell School (A Business & Enterprise School)
Marie Hart, Geography teacher at Barnwell School in Stevenage, has been encouraging her students to use iPods to help with their GCSE revision.

Secondary:
Using iPods for GCSE Geography

April 2008

Therfield First School: Review of Art & Design Work in 2007
This review presented for the Governors and staff of the school drew together all the cross-curricular aspects of a wide variety of class and whole school activities throughout the year.

Primary:
Art / Design & Technology / ICT / Literacy / Numeracy / History / Geography / RE / PSHE / Citizenship

Feb 2008

Sandon JMI School & Francis Combe School
Podcasting, or the delivery of radio-style broadcasts across the internet, is rapidly gaining popularity in schools. It offers an engaging, creative and exciting way to use ICT in different curriculum areas, as well as helping youngsters to develop a number of key skills.

All key stages
Podcasting in Hertfordshire Schools

Nov 2007

Cunningham Hill Infants School

Visualisers We began the new Autumn Term with plenty of enthusiasm for our new resource and were keen to introduce it to Year 2. This was where the WOW factor came in. All the children were very enthusiastic and wanted to try all sorts of ideas on the visualiser.

Foundation / KS1
Use of Visualisers for cross curricular

Nov 2007

Kings Langley Secondary School
Modelling does not come easily for many students. The concepts are much too abstract. You ask them to work out how much profit they will make if they buy roses for 50p each and sell 20 for 90p. The majority of students will have no problem in giving the right answer. Teaching and learning becomes more challenging when you ask students to translate the simple calculation into (A2-A1)*B3. There has to be a better way of covering modelling...

KS3
ICT Game Authoring/ Extended Projects/
Modelling

Oct 2007

Cunningham Hill Infants School
For this trial the CPS voting system was loaned from Hertsfordshire Development Centre. 26 Year two children were involved in using the voting systems as a tool for learning with the aim of finding out about the possibilities within a Key Stage 1 curriculum.

KS1
Voting System for cross curricular work

Oct 2007

St Lukes School
It is estimated that today 95% of young people own some form of mobile technology. This may be a mobile phone, a handheld gaming device, an MP3 player or a combination of all three. It is a technology aimed at young people, that young people know, and that has become a ubiquitous part of their lives, used to communicate, create, record and share.

KS3 & KS4
Numeracy, ICTAC
Special Needs

Oct 2007

Francis Bacon Maths & Computing College
A range of learning and teaching strategies are being combined at Francis Bacon Maths and Computing College to enable students to work independently within ICT yet at the same time receive very structured guidance on their current attainment and how to progress.

KS3 & KS4
Personalised Learning and Assessment within ICT

July 2007

St Lukes School in Redbourn is a Special School for children and young people with moderate learning difficulties and associated needs. Recently a number of the classrooms have been equipped with GeneeVision 6100 Visualisers.

Special Schools
Inclusion / Visualisers - cross curricular

May 2007

Heathlands School
Story Telling Video Conference
Heathlands School is an all age community special school for deaf children. On March 26th 2007 children from the Primary department in St. Albans took part in Video Conferencing event for hearing impaired children, hosted by the London Grid for Learning (LGfL.)

Special Schools
Video Conferencing / Literacy / Drama

Apr 2007

Whitehill Junior School

ChickCam – Using Video Conferencing technology to observe chicks hatching in an incubator.

This little project at Whitehill Junior School (046) in Hitchin is a superb example of using technology in an imaginative way. 

KS2
Video Conferencing / Science

Feb 2007

Colney Heath School trialled a Promethean ACTIVote voting system during the autumn term 2006.

Primary
Using a Voting System for Pupil Voice

Feb 2007

Presdales School The results of an evaluation of the ease of use of a voting system in the classroom.

Secondary
Voting System

Jan 2007

Roundwood Park School As a Mathematics and Computing College, our focus is very much on encouraging all students to take an interest in ICT. At KS4 and 5 there has been a definite imbalance in the amount of girls who would like to pursue an ICT based course and so the club was started to try and remedy this in the future. 

Secondary
Computer Clubs 4 Girls (CC4G)

Dec 2006

The Valley School Using video-conferencing to enable pupils in a book club to discuss books they have read with pupils in another school.

Special Schools
Video Conferencing

June 2006

St Luke's School The great thing is that ICT is accessible to all pupils with careful planning, preparation and delivery. 

Oh…….and lots of enthusiasm!!

Special Schools
ICT in Special School

January 2006

St Luke's School
The results of an evaluation of the ease of use of a voting system in the classroom and its benefits for learners, particularly those with learning difficulties.

KS3 & KS4
Voting Systems

November 2005

Watling View School
Using video conferencing to allow learners to work collaboratively with other SLD learners at Lakeside School.

Secondary
Video Conferencing

November

2005

St Luke's School
Video conferencing with an international group of teachers and learners.

Secondary
Video Conferencing

April 2005

The Best of Both Worlds - Using ICT and Geography to Develop an Understanding of our Changing Local Environment

Schools in the Stevenage area undertook a variety of projects to demonstrate using ICT in Geography....More

Geography, ICT & Gifted & Talented

April 2005

The Wroxham School

All children at Wroxham School have an opportunity to share in decision making. Our ethos is one of a ‘listening school’ where everyone is valued.

Primary
PSHE and ICT

March 2005

Watford Playing for Success

Playing for Success (PfS) is a DfES funded national initiative which uses sport to motivate young people to become successful learners.

Primary & Secondary
Literacy, Numeracy and ICT

Feb 2005

Harwood Hill JMI & Nursery School

An interactive board used to help children see the use of ICT across the curriculum.

KS2
ICT Cross Curriculum

Feb 2004

St Nicholas CofE (VA) Primary School

Congratulations to Bob Hopcraft the head teacher of St Nicholas Primary school in Letchworth. This month (May 2004), OFSTED has approached Bob regarding the inclusion of his school in the next edition of ‘OFSTED Best Practice schools’!

Primary
ICT Across the Curriculum

Feb /Mar 2004

• ICT Training for Bilingual Classroom Assistants. Find out more...
• Solving Word Problems in the Primary Classroom
• Raising the achievement of Traveller pupils through using ICT in Distance Learning - A Case Study. Find out more...

Primary
Inclusion - MECSS

Feb 2004

Summercroft Junior School

Summercroft Junior School is a two-form entry school in Bishop’s Stortford with 240 children on role, who transfer mainly from Summercroft Infants on the same site.

Primary
From Weakness to Strength

Feb 2004

St Mary's Junior School

This case study shows how a portable suite of laptops was introduced into St Mary’s Junior School. It outlines the rationale for using laptops, briefly describes how they were set up, explains how they have been integrated into the curriculum and summarises lessons learned.

Primary
Use of Laptops

Jan 2004

Bayford Primary School

We are a small school in the village of Bayford. Currently we have 96 children on our register and therefore we do not have a lot of money to spend.

Primary
ICT in Small Schools

Oct 2003

Great Gaddesden Primary School

There are three main benefits of purchasing these ‘laptop type’ computers in small school settings; firstly the compactness when space is an issue, secondly the ease of portability between classes and lastly their robustness.

Primary
Tablet PCs
ICT in Small Schools

2003

Round Diamond

Hertfordshire schools are already taking up the challenge of using technologies to raise standards, and are drawing national attention for their innovative use of ICT.

Primary
Advanced Technologies