Digital Leaders

Fort Hill Community School is an oversubscribed secondary school in Basingstoke, North Hampshire with ~720 students. Though steeped in history, Fort Hill is a forward thinking school always striving to develop a ‘Learning For Life’ curriculum.

The school has gone through a technology transformation in the recent past (in terms of provision) with a new MAC Media / Music suite, a sitewide 802.11n wireless blanket with netbook trolleys that turns every classroom into a potential ICT suite, revamped ICT suites, some awesome software provisions eg Dartfish, AEGIS 3, Adobe Master Collection, and the latest whole school addition, a bright new VLE and website built in Frog, that will deliver our mission of a ‘One Stop Shop’ for all learning, teaching, administration and community requirements in Fort Hill. The VLE has really grabbed the students attention and provided a great opportunity to nail Government targets through the Parental Enagement Portal.

As a result we are now ready to make the transition from tech to teach, or te(a)ch, to promote our latest CPD endeavours to convert the new tech into tangible enhanced attainment through advanced and engaging teaching and learning methods and tools.

John Wareham, ICT Development Manager, and a couple of enthusiastic and tech curious teachers are together leading the charge to embed new and exciting ways to transform the curriculum and to stimulate our students.

With the te(a)ch CPD sessions demonstrating cool webware and with ongoing projects and programmes in place such as Microsofts Digigirlz, an Extra Curricular Media club (BBC News Report etc) and with break and lunchtime ICT clubs for students, a natural platform already exists to introduce formal Digital Leaders and to help support e-learning at our school and maybe wider.

It is a pleasure and a privilege to be part of an esteemed team involved in shaping our children’s future learning through a Digital Leader Programme. Thanks Kristian.