ICT in Education

What a fantastic day! It was the National Final of the Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion Challenge and Dr Challoner’s Grammar School from Buckinghamshire came third in the KS3 age range at the National Final of the Jaguar Cars Maths in Motion 2007/8!!!!

Dr Challoner’s were one of 33 schools who attended the final. There were 11 primary, 11 KS3 and 11 KS4 teams who took part.

In the morning pupils prepared their cars and in the afternoon there was one race for all teams. The top team from each age range would be the winner wherever they finished in the race and the overall winner across all age ranges would of course be the team that finished in first place.

Dr Challoner’s Grammar were 25th on the grid of 33 schools (11 from each age range). As the race progressed they slowly climbed up the leader board and as they completed the final lap they had reached 12th position which gained them third place in the KS3 age range!

Full details of the day and finishing positions can be found on the Maths Challenge website.

Photos of the day can be seen on the same website here.

Congratulations, Dr Challoner’s Grammar School!

I’ve rather neglected this blog for some time now. Well I’m back now and determined to keep it going this time. Only time will tell if I succeed…

So, what have I been doing since the last post?

• Went to the Naace conference in Torquay in March
• centralised VLE training for primary schools
• individual primary school training on VLEs
• secondary school training on VLEs
• Cars Maths in Motion competition again (with Dr Challoner’s Grammar through to the national final next week! )

As you can see I have been doing a lot of VLE training! There’s plenty more to come over the next year as we continue this, hopefully delivering training to all our schools in that time.

Yesterday I went to Microsoft in Reading for an RM’s LA Partnership Day. It was useful as I haven’t been to one of these for a couple of years (due to RM always announcing the dates with too little notice, though they are finally learning…) We had a chance to hear about changes and improvements to the rm.com website, see the new i-nfer plan assessment package (though we weren’t really the right audience, this should be assessment and primary strategy consultants who are shown this), learn more about the new RM WindowBox. Then in the afternoon there were breakout sessions where I chose to hear about CC4 and Kaleidos (I was hoping to see content rather than just the Learning Platform itself – ho hum). Plus at lunchtime there was an exhibition where I got to see the new 8.9″ screen version of the Asus EeePC ( RM Asus miniBook) and the HP miniNote PC. Hopefully I’ll be getting both of these on a trial in the near future.

So there we have it, a potted catch-up of the last 7 months.