Redhill Primary School: a class act

With computers in each classroom, this is much easier than in schools that have a separate computing suite, plus Redhill Primary School uses ‘Smart Boards’ instead of traditional blackboards or whiteboards. A Smart Board is a whiteboard linked to a computer. It can project a computer screen and can link what is written on the whiteboard back to the computer.

• Mrs Noel-Storr said: ‘The Smart Boards make lessons much more interesting than a boring overhead projector. It's in colour, and if a teacher is asked a question, he/she can call up a useful web page, instantly, to discuss things.’

Although Redhill Primary School has the usual support from the local education authority to help finance such additions, Mrs Noel-Storr is not averse to finding alternative ways of getting the technology she wants:

• ‘I’m quite used to making all the usual pleas for equipment, and we collect every voucher going for computers, like the Tesco ones.’

Redhill Primary does benefit from being within a special education area. The local authority, the Telford and Wrekin Council, has been awarded ‘pathfinder status’ by the Government.

This means the area has been singled out for special funding, to lead the way with technology. Already, Telford and Wrekin Council has spent £7.5m on an inter-schools network.

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