It's all laptops, netbooks and interactive whiteboards where our girls (13 & 15) are. The school has an advanced wireless system throughout and the teachers run/organise 99% of their teaching on their own laptops.
At home our girls can access all details of their set homework (as we can!) via a secure part of the school website and a good proportion of it is completed on interactive educational websites such as mymaths.
Of the homework that's needed in a physical form at least 75% is typed up rather than written. Other work is often taken in on a memory stick.
Also rather than producing as a word document much of their homework is constructed using powerpoint as a presentation (with sounds and images) that can be given to the whole class.
One of my 15yr old's GCSE subjects will be 100% produced on the PC with not a single element of written work.
This hi-tech even extends to a cashless canteen. Each monday morning I go onto a website where I load their meal accounts from my debit card. When they go into the canteen there is a fingerprint reader and this brings up their image, details and available credit.
School trips are also paid for on this system.
If you miss a meeting regarding something like a ski trip the host teacher will mail you the powerpoint they used in the hall so you can get all the information as if you were there.
All school letters that would normally be sent home in their bags are e-mailed home.
Direct contact with teachers to their school e.mail accounts is now routine and enables a much better partnership between parent and school. I'm now on chatty terms with a dozen of their teachers because of this and it makes for a far more natural relationship than the twice a year parents evening stress of my young days. Any problems can be nipped in the bud.
Last edited by: Fenlander on Mon 11 Oct 10 at 10:49
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