Cutting Edge

At the heart of our development plans is a vision of the way in which we can use ICT to transform the learning process. Information Technology skills are taught in every year, so that all students - from Year 7 to Year 13 can take advantage of the networks of computers that give access to the Internet right across the school.

The East Riding Internet for Learning links the schools in our Sixth Form Consortium and will make it easy for students and tutors to contact each other, whichever site they are working on. And for face to face contact, a video conference can bring specialists from different schools together at very short notice.

Substantial investment in staff training has been aimed at building the confidence which will allow teachers and students to work and to learn side by side as the rate of technological change continues to accelerate.

School planning groups are consistently engaged in analysing current working approaches, and seeking opportunities for technology based learning which will bring added motivation alongside increased technical competence in managing the newest learning tools.

Conscious efforts are being made at all levels within the school to encourage experiment and innovation amongst both students and staff so that the whole organisation becomes more adapted to change and development, and to accommodating rapid technological progress.

Increasingly both teachers and students are finding real uses for the most up to date technology whether it is producing high quality detailed reports on progress; conducting a debate across Europe via the Internet; producing a school magazine; creating a school website; or manipulating images using industry standard software to design the next "Concorde" in the "Eurocollaborator Challenge".