INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

The school has more than sixty computers (approximately one computer to every four girls), which are all networked so that all staff and students can access their work from a variety of rooms in the building. In addition there is a wireless system in the lower part of the building, as well as a number of 'hot spots', where school laptops can be used to link in to the school network. The wireless network cannot be accessed by computers outside the building.

A system is installed to protect the school from unsuitable material on the internet - but at the same time, girls are taught how to use the world-wide web responsibly and safely.

Computers can enable and enhance learning.

So, It is seen as a tool rather than an end in itself – but a tool that all young people need to be fully able to use to do a vast array of jobs: for research, to perform calculations, to organise vast quantities of data, to present work to others, as an aid to musical composition, as a means of communication. So it is that a girl in Year 7 might be expected to design a greetings card, calculate the profits from a week’s sales in a shop or find a map for a journey; her VIth form colleague might be emailing her essays into school with a properly footnoted bibliography or even using a computer for her A level music composition exam!