Borough Wokingham schools showcase their it skills at national show
Two Wokingham Borough schools have showcased their information and technology (IT) skills at the national BETT show recently held in London.
Gorse Ride Junior School in Finchampstead, Wokingham and Radstock Primary School in Lower Earley played a part at the BETT show at London Olympia. BETT is the world's leading educational ICT event, attracting over 600 educational suppliers and 27,000 visitors.
Gorse Ride Junior School, Wokingham took 18 pupils from year five and six to help out on the ‘Learner Voice’ stand. The Learner Voice stand provided an opportunity for visitors to hear the views of pupils on education in the future, and on the technology they use, including texting, photoblogging and podcasting, and online voting to name just a few.
Visitors to the Learner Voice stand were able to hear the opinions of 120 pupils from Gorse Ride Junior School on a range of learning and school issues. The pupils talked to visitors about what they have been learning at Gorse Ride, and challenged them to guess the most popular responses to a range of questions that they had devised from their classmates. The challenge was to think like a ten-year-old!
Wokingham Gorse Ride Junior School has an active school council and an eco committee, run by pupils in year six with members from each class in the school. The BETT show was an exciting opportunity for visitors to ‘listen to the learner voice’, in other words, to hear learners’ own views on education. Pupils chose the questions that were important to them and created their own interactive whiteboard presentations to find out what their peers felt about issues including, what helps them to learn, homework behaviour, lunches and even whether children should be able to vote in parliamentary elections.
Deputy headteacher Lara Savory said: “The pupils were thrilled to be invited to BETT. They spoke with confidence, used the technology well and presented as if they’d been trained for television! It was a shame we couldn’t take everyone who wanted to take part – there was so much interest in the show at the school. We are very proud of those who went. Everyone was amazed the pupils were still at primary school.”
Gorse Ride Junior School in Finchampstead, Wokingham and Radstock Primary School in Lower Earley played a part at the BETT show at London Olympia. BETT is the world's leading educational ICT event, attracting over 600 educational suppliers and 27,000 visitors.
Gorse Ride Junior School, Wokingham took 18 pupils from year five and six to help out on the ‘Learner Voice’ stand. The Learner Voice stand provided an opportunity for visitors to hear the views of pupils on education in the future, and on the technology they use, including texting, photoblogging and podcasting, and online voting to name just a few.
Visitors to the Learner Voice stand were able to hear the opinions of 120 pupils from Gorse Ride Junior School on a range of learning and school issues. The pupils talked to visitors about what they have been learning at Gorse Ride, and challenged them to guess the most popular responses to a range of questions that they had devised from their classmates. The challenge was to think like a ten-year-old!
Wokingham Gorse Ride Junior School has an active school council and an eco committee, run by pupils in year six with members from each class in the school. The BETT show was an exciting opportunity for visitors to ‘listen to the learner voice’, in other words, to hear learners’ own views on education. Pupils chose the questions that were important to them and created their own interactive whiteboard presentations to find out what their peers felt about issues including, what helps them to learn, homework behaviour, lunches and even whether children should be able to vote in parliamentary elections.
Deputy headteacher Lara Savory said: “The pupils were thrilled to be invited to BETT. They spoke with confidence, used the technology well and presented as if they’d been trained for television! It was a shame we couldn’t take everyone who wanted to take part – there was so much interest in the show at the school. We are very proud of those who went. Everyone was amazed the pupils were still at primary school.”
Wokingham Borough Council
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