Nottingham High School is an all boys school, based in the centre of Nottingham. The school houses three elements in total; an infants section, a junior division and a high school section. I became Director of ICT in September of 2009, overseeing the academic nature of ICT, the school network environment and supporting teachers in their ICT development. Creating a group of digital leaders in our school would provide a much needed extra curricular opportunity for our students in the field of IT. It is also important for our students to get involved and “own” the growth and development of our new VLE. By acquiring these new skills, they will be better placed to enable the facilitation of IT skills within our school.
I’m delighted to be a co-ordinator for digital leaders and hope to drive this forward at our school. I was formerly Head of ICT at Wolverhampton Grammar School where I taught for nine years. I’ve had a teaching career which spans more than twenty years and am originally from Durban, South Africa. My father was from Wiltshire and I’ve always wanted to live in and work in the U.K. as I do now.
During my eighteen year career as a teacher in South Africa, I was Head of the following departments: English, History, P.E. and ICT. I was also a Media Centre Manager and served a short spell as a Deputy Head. At WGS I was the Data Base Manager and taught Computing and ICT courses at A level and Key Stage 3 and 4 ICT. My role involved the development of ICT at WGS and assisting with the implementation of the ICT systems. I believe in a combination of traditional and web-based teaching methods and was responsible for the implementation of the FROG Learning Platform at WGS.
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