What do we do as Digital Leaders at Canon Slade?At school as Digital Leaders we aim to make ICT in school better than it already is this includes promoting ICT around school, using ICT in other lessons, making posters, helping others and much more.
Who are Canon Slade's Digital Leaders?Digital Leaders is a project started as a way of creating sustainable ICT developments in schools. The emphasis is on employing digital leaders to lead developments alongside the ICT coordinator (Mr Ben Gristwood). Therefore, they can be employed to lead workshops, evaluate resources, teach their peers, collaborate with other DLs to share and learn ideas. Some DLs have worked alongside technicians as well, learning what it is like to look after a school’s network.
Canon Slade SchoolCanon Slade School is a Church of England secondary school on Bradshaw Brow in Bradshaw, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.
The school was founded in 1855 by Canon James Slade as the Bolton Church Institute, aimed at educating the poorer children of Bolton. It became a direct grant grammar school, then a comprehensive. Though the school has changed much since its inception 154 years ago its motto "Ora et labora" (Pray and Work) is still its guiding principle. The commitment to work and the Christian life ensures the success of the school and ability to flourish in a constantly changing and challenging world. A visit to the chapel, completed in 2004, bears witness to the centrality of the school's Christian faith. There are around 1700 pupils and students on roll, including 340 in the sixth form. The school has a reputation for its academic work (for several years the Sixth Form has been ranked amongst the top thirty nationally for A-level results in a comprehensive state school) but also for sport (Sportsmark Award and regular success in national competitions), for Music, Drama and many other activities. It is a Specialist Arts College, a Training School and enjoys Healthy School and Leading Edge status. Since 2004 the school has been an Ambassador School for the National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth. In 2009 the school was awarded Gold Standard by the Specialist School and Academies Trust for Community Cohesion. Canon Slade School is set on a 57-acre (230,000 m2) site in the foothills of the West Pennine moors on which are hundreds of mature trees, a river bank, two wildlife ponds, one of which is inhabited by several endangered species of amphibian, extensive sports fields, including a cross-country course and floodlit all-weather pitch. |
Digital Leaders NetworkDigital Leaders is a project started as a way of creating sustainable ICT developments in schools. The emphasis is on employing digital leaders to lead developments alongside the ICT coordinator. Therefore, they can be employed to lead workshops, evaluate resources, teach their peers, collaborate with other DLs to share and learn ideas. Some DLs have worked alongside technicians as well, learning what it is like to look after a school’s network.
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