Case Studies

Preparing students for

Wood Ley School

Digital Resilience UK supported Wood Ley Primary School on their journey to implement a full mobile learning programme. Initial stages involved defining a vision, building a deployment strategy and working with teachers and leaders to build confidence in teaching and learning with iPads.

Training quickly moved towards practical lesson design and implementing core iPad workflows that can increase accessibility, save time and reduce teacher workload.

DRUK assisted in choice and set-up of cloud infrastructure before deploying iPads in to the upper phase of the School. Demo lessons were delivered to each class in the school, followed by team-teaching utilising a coaching and mentoring philosophy.

Vision

Defining goals and strategic planning

Strategy

Research-driven technology integration

Training

That puts teaching pedagogy first

Deployment

Implementing change

Teach

Demo lessons alongside teachers

Coaching

Sustainable progression

A key priority for the school was updating the computing curriculum and building new opportunities for students to code outside traditional computer rooms. DRUK supported the deployment of Swift Playgrounds and connected devices to bring coding alive for students.

6 months in to the project, Wood Ley doubled the number of devices deployed in the school due to the positive take-up and feedback from staff, students and parents. The school is now planning a redevelopment of traditional computer room spaces due to adoption of cloud infrastructure and use of mobile devices for traditional ICT tasks.

I felt like I was in the future when @MrMacFeed taught my computing lesson this week. He taught the children how to fly a drone around the room! They also created a code to make a robot move! He’s definitely worth a follow if you want to feel inspired 😁💻

It’s day 3 of #adventinspiration where you get a chance to say on each day of advent someone who inspires you on Edutwitter. For me today it’s @MrMacFeed who has supported us massively on our iPad journey! Who is your #adventinspiration?

Thank you @MrMacFeed. My class loved your demo lesson & I’ve heard lots of positive feedback from parents too!