Category Archives: Strategic ICT Leadership Programme
Naace ICT Impact Awards 2013 shortlist
Bradford’s Curriculum ICT team are delighted to announce that they have been shortlisted as a finalist at the Naace ICT Impact Awards 2013. The shortlist for the awards was announced on Thursday 31 January at 2pm on the Naace stand … Continue reading
Professionals online safety helpline
The Safer Internet Centre has been funded by the European Commission to provide a Helpline for professionals who work with children and young people in the UK, specifically tackling the area of e-safety. The Helpline provides support with all aspects of digital … Continue reading
New CEOP / ThinkuKnow video resource
CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre) have produced many high quality resources for supporting schools with their E-safeguarding curriculum through the ThinkuKnow website and their video resources are always of a very high quality. On the 31st October they … Continue reading
Data Protection guidance from ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office)
The ICO recently released a document entitled ‘Report on the data protection guidance we gave schools in 2012’ available here. The document highlights how the ICO helped several schools earlier in 2012 to comply with data protection rules and highlights the … Continue reading
Bradford Digital Leaders Conference 2012
A sample of Digital Leaders from some of the 36 Bradford Primary Schools now active with the programme demonstrated how they can work confidently with new technologies; communicate ideas clearly, and in some instances help to upskill school staff … Continue reading
The transition from ICT to Computer Science
Over 20 teachers from around the region attended the first session of our three part course ‘The transition from ICT to Computer Science’ at The Innovation Centre, Bradford (TICB) on Monday. The course focussed on some underlying principles of computational … Continue reading
Intensive ECDL gets results
A group of Year 11 students successfully completed a two week intensive British Computer Science ECDL Extra Course at the Innovation Centres. The students, all from Oakbank School, attended every day and their time keeping and commitment was exemplary. Responding … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum ICT, Education General, Innovation Centre Days, Secondary focus whole curriculum, Strategic ICT Leadership Programme
Tagged British Computer Society, Computing, ECDL, European Computer Driving License, innovation centres, john patefield, Robert Bashforth, strategic
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‘BYOD’ – Bring your own device!
There is a lot of talk at the moment about the ‘BYOD’ agenda in business and education and the continual blurring of work and personal life and networks. The vast majority of mobile devices are designed specifically for personal use and many … Continue reading
Computing at School Strategic Information pack
In March 2012 an information pack was sent to every head teacher of state maintained secondary schools in England, in order to explain the strategic opportunities they would have from September 2012 to develop Computer Science as a rigorous academic … Continue reading
Smart Notebook Windows 7 issues
It has recently come to our attention that some of you are having trouble connecting your Windows 7 machine (laptop or PC) to older series 500 Smartboards. We recently contacted Steljes with this query and they kindly sent us the … Continue reading
