Digital Leaders

Perins School (www.perins.net) is proud to take part in the Digital Leaders scheme and have the opportunity to work with some fabulous teachers and students throughout the South East of England.

Perins is a co-educational community school based in the attractive Hampshire town of Alresford. Alresford is home of the Watercress line and Thomas the Tank Engine comes to visit us twice a year. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perins_School) we have 4 quite famous ex pupils: 

• Alexa Chung (Channel 4 and MTV presenter)
• Russell Howard (Mock the Week panel member)
• Dan Kieran (author of Crap Towns!)
• Chris Geere (pretend teacher on Waterloo)

 Perins School has specialist sports college status and High Performing status.  It has just over 1,000 pupils aged 11-16 (students continue their education at 6^th form college). It became a trust school in 2009. 

Perins School has a well developed e-learning scheme that is now in its third year of operation. The aim of the scheme is to enhance students learning and understanding by supplying them with a range of effective 21^st Century tools that will foster independence, collaboration and personalisation.

The scheme has six main areas:

• the development of a electronic curriculum using a Moodle Virtual learning environment (http://moodle.perins.net)
• Notebooks for teaching and non teaching staff (based on a 3 yr cycle)
• Support of  internal and external communications network
• Notebook for students scheme –offered on entry to year 7 (currently  a 3yr cycle)
• Individual e-mail address and access to school network resources
• Access to an electronic curriculum on the VLE for all core subject at KS3 and for all subjects at KS3 by 2010-11.

Supporting the Digital Leader Scheme
Gideon Williams (williams@perins.hants.sch.uk) is the Director of e-learning at Perins School; a post he has occupied for quite a long time. His role is to co-ordinate the development of e-learning across all aspects of school with a particular focus on the school’s VLE, http://moodle.perins.net and the students notebook scheme; now in its third year. Gideon still maintains a fairly full timetable teaching amongst other things AS Level, OCR Nationals, iMedia and ICT innovations. In his role as a Lead Professional ICT teacher, he works closely with other Moodle schools within Hampshire. When not on Twitter  (sorry marking), Gideon is particularly interested in developing gaming technology in schools; in his continued (and still unsuccessful attempts) to compete with his 9yr old son. He is a proud Scot and supports all teams Scotland and anyone who plays England.