I.C.T.

Aims

The department aims to equip all students with the ICT skills necessary to function successfully in their adult life at both a personal and professional level. We aim to ensure every student receives external accreditation for the skills they have acquired.

Introduction

Waltheof ICT is a forward thinking department at the forefront of many new developments in education. All students learn ICT as a discrete subject throughout the school life as well as having many opportunities to use their ICT skills across the Curriculum.

Staffing

• Ian Livingston (Director of ICT and e-learning)
• Doug Tiffen (2nd in department)
• Ferzana Khan
• Paul Armytage
• David Turner (Senior Teaching Assistant)
• Graham Stutchfield (Network manager)
• Graham Topham (Senior Network Technician)

Facilities

Computers

The school has 3 dedicated ICT rooms with 30 PCs in each room together with a fully equipped ICT suite in our learning centre. Each teaching room is connected to the network. Mathematics and Science have their own class sets of laptops connected to a wireless network. Every department in school has at least 1 PC.

Interactive Whiteboards

All ICT science and mathematics rooms have their own whiteboards and there is at least one interactive whiteboard in every department throughout the school

Curriculum

Keystage 3

In years 7 and 8 All students have one lesson of ICT per week. We follow the new teaching units in the National KS3 strategy, ensuring that all students are challenged to develop their skills and the way they think about ICT to the fullest. Students also study modules in MS Word and MS Excel which are separately accredited.

In Year 9 some students have 3 lessons of ICT per week. These will begin their preparation for double award GCSE by developing their skills and depth of knowledge and understanding across a broad range of applications. Others continue to work in line with the Key Stage 3 strategy to build a secure foundation for developing their key skills in ICT.

Keystage 4

GCSE students have 4 lessons a week, where they study applications of ICT form an organisational and personal perspective as well as developing further their range of skills in different applications. Students not studying for GCSE continue to have ICT for either 1 or 2 periods a week when they continue to develop their key skills at levels 1 and 2.

Extra-Curricular

Students have access to the schools learning centre at breaks, lunchtimes and after school where there is a full suite of computers.