Holmesdale - Speech from Ian Hobson at SE Event
Fascinating and impressive presentation from Ian Hobson, Executive Headteacher of Holmesdale Malling Federation.
Key points?
- New Federation, new school builds, New opportunity for fresh thinking.
- Risk taking can be an effective.way of rapid progress.
- Link with Ergo / Microsoft Learning Gateway as the basis for shared school services.
- Plans to 'role out' to all schools in the cluster, starting with three local primary schools.
- Turning their back on i-whiteboards.
- Greater parental involvement.
- Software licensong over two sites on a per-user basis.
- Follow-me printing a key featuire, together with links to SIMS.
- Moving to Sharepoint 2007 later in next academic year.
- New teachers more skilled than some of the senior managers.
Listen to Ian talking on some important experiences with the following PodCast Extracts
- School History
- Clusters
- Curriculum MLE
- Interactive Whiteboards NOT!
- Special School Partnership
- Target Setting
- Federations