ICT Department News

CC4G update

Computer Club for Girls has had three sessions so far this half term and it rocks! Just like the website says we had girls, well was girl from year 9 was up and dancing during her work on the Celebrities project. Here the pupils make a contact list of artists for a simulated music agency and have to decide whether to employ them based on their musical abilities. All tasks lead to ICT skills and this one is no different. It encourages databasing capabilities. Highlights so far have been one year 9 girl reading to everyone and another one in the year 9 asking if she could access the site at home to do even more.

 “Big Hitters” Conference 2011

On the first day of advent, all the A-Level Applied ICT students will set out on a trip to attend the fantastic conference at the School of Education in central London. .

During the day we hope to see: 

• Robert Hamilton, Google Product Manager, California will be giving a presentation on Intelligent Collaborative Tools, discussing how groups like the Arab rebels make innovative use of collaborative tools to achieve their goals.
• Nick Bletzer, Manager of Software Training for IBM UK, who will take a closer look at cloud computing
• Julie Lunan and Andy Birds, who work in the field of service design and transition management for The Co-operative Bank, the Internet bank Smile and Britannia, will be giving a talk on how internet banking works and looking at fraud and other challenges.
• Matt Steell, Director for Data Solutions at DunnHumby, which manages some of the world’s largest and most complex databases, will tell the conference how they help, amongst others, Tesco, Unilever and Coca-Cola get closer to their customers.

Come and share you experience with our students

Lastly, if anyone from the local community has an interest in coming in and speaking to students about how they use ICT in their daily work, or maybe you run an IT company of some sort and wouldn’t mind show a small group of students what you do, then please get in contact with me.

Dan Peacefield

Head of ICT and Gifted and Talented Co-ordinator