Purpose: Meeting to address key Strategic Issues

Audience: Headteachers and / or Senior Leaders in Secondary Schools with responsibility for ICT

Venue & Date: Neale-Wade Community College, Wimblington Road, March, PE15 9PX: 13th July 4-6pm

We aim to host regular events to help keep schools informed on strategic ICT developments. We would like to invite the Headteacher and/or the member of your Senior Management Team with responsibility for ICT to this event. The agenda will cover a range of important strategic issues and is as follows:

BSF: the way forward and ICT issues - Alan Kippax, BSF Programme Director
BSF from a non-BSF school prospective - Steve Howard, Deputy Principal, Swavesey Village College
CCN Replacement - Paul Rouse, Head of Procurement
What does E2BN do? - Representative from E2BN
Video Conferencing - Tim Daines, Secondary ICT Advisor, Education ICT Service
Accredited Secondary ICT Subject Leader Course - Tim Daines, Secondary ICT Advisor, Education ICT Service
National Digital Resource Bank - Gareth Davies, E-learning Manager, Education ICT Service
Communications to schools - Paul Springford. Deputy Head of Education ICT Service.

During the meeting there will also be the opportunity to discuss any issues you might have.

We hope you will be able to meet with us to discuss these important topics. Please book your place by contacting ICT Courses:

Email: ict.courses@cambridgeshire.gov.uk Tel: 01480 376670

For those who are unable to attend the actual meeting we will arrange for any papers/presentations to be made available after the event. Please view via the Education Portal via this link or by searching using Search ID 4717:

Portal link to 'Strategic Implementation of ICT Events'

Training Opportunities for 2009 / 2010

Purpose: Training Course Information for 2009/10

Audience: ICT Coordinators

All Cambridgeshire Primary Schools will shortly be receiving via the courier service, a hardcopy of the Education ICT Service Training Course Schedule for 2009 / 10.

This year schools will receive a handy A3 Matrix, indicating job roles within schools, with suggested appropriate training courses. For each role there will also be an A5 flyer, showing these recommended courses, with a short course summary and dates for the Autumn Term. More in depth course details are also available via the Portal, together with future course dates.

To access the online versions of these documents please use the following link: Training Course Schedule 2009-10

The Secondary school matrix and course details will also be published on the Education Portal, via the link above.

Please note we are unable to accept bookings over the phone. You may call to check course detail and space availability on telephone 01480 376670 or email: ict.courses@cambridgeshire.gov.uk , unfortunately no places can be provisionally booked.

School Workforce Census

Purpose: Information

Audience: Personnel Officer or Bursar

An email has been sent out to all schools explaining about the rollout of the B2B Personnel Project, which is the process needed to send your School Workforce Census to the DCSF. Together with the One Team we used the Huntsnet group of schools to pilot this project. This was successful, so we are now ready to get all Cambridgeshire schools using SIMS prepared for the Schools Workforce Census (SWF).

The Helpline team will be contacting schools to give them their allotted time, so if you haven't seen this email and you are the contact for Personnel Data, please check with the school office, as the email went to the office@ accounts.

For any further details please contact ICT Helpline on 08450 450973

School Forward Estimates & 2009 QLA KS1 & Optional Tests Functionality

Purpose: Information

Audience: Headteachers