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ICT IN THE EDUCATION COMMUNITY
Blatchington Mill School & Sixth Form College
Contact: Mark Leighton
Blatchington Mill is a mixed 11 - 18 comprehensive school of almost 1800 students. The 'BMS Portal' was set up in Sharepoint 2003 and subsequently upgraded to MOSS 2007.
It features areas for staff, students, parents and governors.
Every teaching group in the school has its own site, shared between the students in the group and their teacher, as well as more general subject sites for each course in the school. All staff and students can access their network space remotely.
A particular emphasis has been on encouraging parents into the school community through greater access to their childs progress and attainment. Parents can access all of the student portal with its curriculum materials, as well as newsletters, information and guidance and parent forums.
Live information immediately accessible to parents includes assessment, profiles, registration and lesson attendance, behaviour/ achievements, timetable information, online rewards, and an online homework diary, all relating to their son/daughter.
The student Assignment Diary is built on Sharepoint Learning Kit technology. Work is assigned to students by staff online, and is immediately available to view by the student or by their parents, via the online diary.
We have developed Student Tracking web parts which interrogate SIMS Assessment Manager and display target grades, attainment grades, and progress traffic lighting for parents to view on their child's progress, and for students to check on their own progress at any time:
Capita Learning Gateway web parts have been installed and subsequently customised to provide students and parents with personalised data on student attainment and progress.
Many areas, such as attendance, allow the parent to drill down to examine more precise details.
This information is read directly from SIMS.net with no further intervention by staff.
Examples of some of the web parts are displayed below.
In addition to the data available to students and parents, staff also have access to their timetable, the daily cover sheet, to lesson registration and can complete reports remotely.
A student's Achievement points from the SIMS Behaviour Management module are displayed to the student via an online rewards webpart which shows points accrued and associated graphics which are added to as the student gians further achievement points
Although there are many more developments planned for it, there has already been considerable interest shown in Blatchington Mill's portal.
It has featured in articles in The Guardian, TES, various education journals, and presentations have been made to ASCL, NAHT, SLICT and at Capita's National Conference in 2008.
It will also feature at BETT in January 2009.
Guardian
January 2008
Microsoft
Case Study December 2008
Microsoft
videos on parental engagement at Blatchington Mill 2010
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