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ICT is an important and developing part of the curriculum at Copley High School . All pupils in Lower school (years 7-9) have one lesson of discrete ICT per week whilst in upper school all pupils in Year 10 and 11 study Applied GCSE ICT (Double Award) OCR. The use of ICT in curriculum areas is well established and is to be expanded from September. Several curriculum areas have committed themselves to delivering various aspects of the National curriculum in ICT. For example Design and Technology make extensive use of Control and CAD, the Science department deliver data logging. The ICT department consists of an ICT Co-ordinator/Head of Department, two ICT teachers, Network technician, Apprentice technician and an E-Learning Administrator. The department has close links with several outside organisations and provides work experience opportunities for these organisations. Facilities at present consist of a Windows based RM Networks, linking all areas of the school with 184 workstations through 5 RM servers. There are three classrooms with 30 workstations each, which are used for discrete and cross curricular ICT and there are digital projectors and whiteboards in these rooms. There is also a wireless network installed last summer and approx. 100 laptop computers for use within curriculum areas. Internet access is via a broadband 10mb fibre optic link connection and Unix server and is available across the network. Copley also has a developing Intranet and Virtual Learning Platform which includes materials from all curriculum areas. In addition there are 34 workstations in the Learning Resource Centre which provide a valuable resource in the development of ICT across the curriculum. There are also mini suites of computers in several curriculum areas for example Science, Music, Learning Support Unit, Geography and Art. All pupils and staff have an e-mail account which may be accessed form home or school. The school is also committed to providing all staff with their own laptop. All pupils in Years 7 , 8 and 9 follow a course in discrete ICT, the course is currently delivered by the ICT Coordinator, ICT teacher and a small number of non specialist staff. Pupils make extensive use of the ICT facilities at lunchtimes and the LRC is open before and after school. The ICT facilities are also used extensively for adult education courses in the evenings. It is planned that community use of the facilities will increase significantly in the near future. |
