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New technology doesn’t worry girls at all. In fact they love it. They approach computers with a completely open mind and will try things out and have a go.
Chris Chisnall Paragon Publishing 2002
ICT lessons are timetabled from Year 3 to Year 9 and additionally other subject staff will bring their classes to the main suite to undertake coursework and investigations. Early work in Year 3 includes text pictures and simple animations. In Year 9 each girl creates here own website on the internet as well as making a 30-second video advertisement which is edited using movie software.
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| Photoshop - Before & After |
In ICT lessons during Years 7 and 8, our pupils acquire or reinforce
their skills with word processing, page design, spreadsheets, file
formats, internet search engines and databases.
In Year 9, high level skills are achieved with Adobe Photoshop as well as the creation of a website mainly using tables and cells with Dreamweaver. The digital video editing uses Serif MoviePlus to manipulate video and sound tracks. Throughout care is taken with noting the relevant legislation including Data Protection, Copyright and WEEE (Waste electrical and electronic equipment) as well as safety on the internet.
Girls meet and become proficient with software from 2Simple (Juniors only) as well as Adobe (Dreamweaver & Photoshop), Microsoft (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) and Serif (PagePlus, DrawPlus and MoviePlus).
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| Dreamweaver for making websites |
The school-wide network enables our pupils to access their work saved on the servers and the internet together with their school-based email across the school site.
The main ICT suite is open at 8 am each day and during the lunch time for individuals and groups to come to work at their own items in a quiet safe environment. Both technical and educational support is available during these times.
Safety on the internet is secured by filtering techniques which enable areas which are not supportive of educational use to be blocked along with the usual inappropriate material.
Pupils have their own school email account which is similarly secured by software. The use of email has dropped significantly now that most girls use memory sticks to carry work from home to school rather than email large attachments.
The sixth form girls continue to use the software across all their subjects and at the end of the lower sixth start their university applications via the internet with UCAS no longer supporting paper applications. Many of these girls return to use the Mavis Beacon typing tutor they met earlier in the school to brush up their typing speed.
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