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This category is an opportunity for teachers, schools or Local Authority staff to nominate a school that has embedded ICT into all aspects of school life improving the quality of education. Submissions need to include an overview of the ways ICT has benefited the school including how it is used to support teaching and learning.
Nominations for this category will go through a shortlisting process and dates arranged for external judges to visit each shortlisted school. In previous years visits have included a tour of the school, meetings with pupils, teachers, parents or governors.
It is expected that each school’s use of ICT will be different. These briefing notes are intended to provide guidance for judges and not to form hard and fast criteria for final selection. Northern Grid places confidence in the professional experiences of the judges to make the difficult decision of identifying the school which is deemed to be making the best use of ICT across the whole school.
It should be noted that this award is directed to whole school ICT usage and not examples of ICT in one year group, subject or class. The award is not directed at the teaching of ICT as a subject.
Areas to consider include:
- Examples of effective / innovative use of broadband technologies and its impact on all aspects of school life
- Examples of ICT use demonstrated through portfolios or collections of completed work
- The range of ICT use, where and how it is being used. This could include use of learning platforms, online learning resources, broadband technologies including Video Conferencing, audio files, graphics, interactive or archive packages such as Audio Network, Making the News or the British Pathe Archive.
- Levels of confidence displayed by pupils using ICT.
- Enthusiasm and professional commitment demonstrated by staff and senior management including the head teacher
- How well ICT and broadband technologies are embedded into teaching and learning across the curriculum
- The involvement of parents and carers in supporting ICT, understanding eSafety issues and use of homework
- Continuity and progression in ICT usage, demonstrating increasingly sophisticated and independent use as pupils move through the school
- ICT links with other agencies including museums, other schools, the community and other third parties, demonstrating use of ICT to develop innovative and creative uses.
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