Project Method:
Rachel is working with 12 gifted and talented children in Year 2 and hoping to develop links with other children in Year 2 in Cumbria.
They have sent pictures to the school in Cumbria showing them what they are doing and
teachers from Cumbria are making a visit to Blue Gate Fields Infants next week to begin these links.
Expected outcomes:
Rachel hopes for the children to extend on their ICT skills using think, being putting up articles with graphics and hyperlinks to demonstrate ict capability.
Timeline:
Rachel will begin the links with the other school and will let us know when she would like us to visit to assist in the classroom or perhaps with training of teachers.
Method of recording project:
Rachel will document with the children in a diary form on think.com what they have learnt from each session. She will send us the aims of the project in a word document to Mike to put up on the website.
Resources available to project:
The school has a digital camera which the children are using and all staff have laptops which has been a wonderful way to develop their ICT skills, better planning, assessment and get on the internet for the 1st time. Rachel has a laptop from the project and has found it useful in training on think.com and lesson planning after hours as well as using the Internet to look for resources or pictures to use with the children. She has even learnt a bit of html.
The school itself has a small ICT suite but each classroom has 3 computers in it for the children's use. They have also received broadband, which has made think.com a lot faster.
Constraints and Opportunities that have been discovered:
An opportunity to train staff through the WWW project would be of great benefit to Rachel as she trains the teachers in her school. Also she would like to develop the school website .
The LEA Advisory team that went in and did some model ICT lessons in Year 1 were valuable.
Additional Input that might be useful on this project:
Training for teachers and assistance in website development.

We will record the school's progress with the project over the next two terms and report it on these pages.