Staff Evaluation
At the beginning of our Digital Schools Award Journey (2024) staff evaluated their practice against this headign and gave the following examples of how we may meet this criteria:
- Tablets and laptops for children, laptops for teachers, Proethean Boards in classrooms
- P1 – using beets and maps independently
- P1 staff use OneDrive folder for sharing weekly Lit & Num input and other resources
- Existing Digital Framework and participation in Digital Learning In-Services
- ActivInspire online training and courses
- Promethean training
- iPad training
- iPad scavenger hunts
- Age appropriate apps with visual guidance
- Playbased opportunities; topic work
- Wedsites: Education City, Topmarks, Doorway – online shared with parents
- Literacy Shed, ICT games
- Forms to collect data
- Safer Schools App
- Voco Chat – laptops
- CAD lessons
- HOC
- Scratch
- Glow Blogs
Resources:
We have an ICT inventory that is stored on our OneDrive and is updated annually or when items are procured or disposed of.
When disposing of devices and items with built in memory we follow the secure ICT disposal procedure inline with Local Authority policy.
In our primary school, our devices include:
- 70+ laptops (Stored across 3 charging trolleys)
- 28 iPads (Stored across two charging trolleys)
- 16 Sphero Minis with education packs
- Every classroom has a Promethean Board
- 1 mobile Promethean Board
- 8 Indi Cars
- 2 Sphero Mats with activity cards
- Wall mounted Green Screen
- iPad Microphones x 7
- HDMI to iPad adaptops to display work from the iPads x 4
- Literacy Shed subscription
- Education City Subscription
- 30+ sets of headphones
- 6 Beebots
- 60 Mico:bits
Most of our hardware (excluding devices, which are stored in trolleys) is located in our ICT cupboard. There is a sign-in and out system and a booking calendar. Please see photos below.
* Our Sphero Minis, Indi Cars, Mats, microphones and HDMI to iPad adaptos have all been purchased through our PEF budget this year.
Parent Helper and Digital Leaders
Mrs Andrews is a parent helper who works with our digital leaders on a Friday.
One of the Digital Leaders’ weekly tasks in to keep out Achievements board up to date with photos of certificate winners from assembly. The digital leaders take the photos each week and then Mrs Andrews supports them in uploading them to their Glow accounts so that they can be printed from a laptop, and then printing them out. Please see below for a photo of the board and instructions to support Mrs Andrews and the Digital Leaders in their task.
Digital Leaders – Friday Tasks
Staff Use of ICT outside the classroom
Some examples of how we regularly use ICT outwit our classrooms:
- Shared documents for selecting appointments/slotse.g. for tracking meetings, gym hall timetables etc
- Forms to complete staff evaluations e.g. our recent consoltation on the Relationships policy
- Padlets for collecting staff responses during in-service and collegiate meetings
- OneDrive folders for sharing resources
- AI for generating lesson ideas and proof reading
- Secure pendrives for reports and tracking
- Spreadsheets for data analysis
- GL, SOFA and SNSA assessment reports
iPad Apps
Our iPads are managed via the JAMF system via the council. This allows only appropriate apps to be downloaded. There is a list of approved apps that have no inappropriate content, including ads or requests for personal details. Please see below for the list of apps already on the iPads, those on the approved list and the procedure for requesting apps.
Apps on iPads Approved iPad Apps App process for Jamf V3 140524
GDPR
Each year, all staff understake modules on GDPR through the iLearn platform. This is a mandatory North Ayrshire course.
CLPL
Please see the other sections for how we have delivered and signposted staff to relevant Digital Learning CLPL.
Daily Use
See some photos of how Digital Technology is used in a typical day at Lawthorn:
