Bigland Green Primary School
              

Shadwell
Promoting communication skills and different ways to learn
Project Aims:
To develop the use of Interactive whiteboards for work across subjects
To develop teachers' use of PowerPoint top encourage presentational work.
To use electronic communications to make friends in other countries and to develop different ways to communicate.
Blod Churcher is deputy head of Bigland Green Primary School, a beacon school in Wapping.
Together with Sayed Bhuiya, the ICT Coordinator, they are running a project for the Web-Wise Wapping network which is based on developing pupils' communication skills through the medium of ICT. The school has received 7 laptops from Tools for Schools, and two more laptops to support the project. The school also has an interactive whiteboard, which is being used with all classes, and digital cameras to record progress in ICT.
                 
               One of the ICT rooms                                                  Using the interactive whiteboard
The school has just received broadband, which should help with faster access to think.com.
Blod is working with a group of parents, who are producing autobiographies in their once-a-week session. Sayed is setting up the Tools for Schools laptops up.
Victoria Harrison is the D&T Coordinator. She has been using think.com and recently visited New York to set up an E-pals project with an elementary school there. The project will help pupils to learn about each others interests across the world and develop an understanding about peope in other places.Blod has documented the ICT work to date on Think.com in the form of a diary.

tree of life ceramic
We will record the school's progress with the project over this term and report it on these pages.
 

Sponsored by St Katharine and Shadwell Trust