ICT in Schools

ICT Test Bed Project

Barking and Dagenham were 1 of 3 local education authority's to be selected by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to be part of the £20 million ICT Test Bed Project which ran until September 2006.

This project was designed to demonstrate the impact that high levels of investment in ICT can have on:

Raising standards of attainment across the curriculum
Improving the effective management of schools
Enabling teachers to focus on core teaching tasks

The 4 year project directly involved 3 secondary schools and 6 primary schools, although all schools in the borough benefited through the re-distribution of funding, developed procurement routes and the numerous technical, procedural and educational outputs from a major project.

The 3 secondary schools involved were:

The primary schools involved were:

The project also included Barking College who worked with all schools on a range of exciting activities including digital content creation, large format printing, digital photography and 3D rapid prototyping.

Across the cluster of 9 schools and Barking College, there was a range of activities aimed at widening community participation.

Full details of the ICT Test Bed Project can be found on the Becta website.