With just two days left of the summer term, my colleagues and I look back at the term and are astounded at how busy it has been. How I look forward to spending weeks on the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and in a farm cottage in the middle of nowhere in the Yorkshire Dales!
When I return to school, my job role will have changed considerably. My teaching timetable will be considerably less, unfortunately, as I move into a managerial role with broader responsibilities, and a heavy focus on readying the teaching staff for the enormous change they will experience when they move into the new Academy building in 2012. The ICT facilities we will have then, throughout the academy, will be second to none, and teachers will need training and various other support to make sure that this technology is used to its fullest extent in raising the standard of teaching and learning. The biggest problem I have is trying to help colleagues to define their ICT requirements, knowing that the technology which will be available in eighteen months to two years will be very different from what we know now.
We start next year with an acting Principal, our current one having decided to leave in order to undertake voluntary work for a charitable organisation in Mombasa. As a self-confessed ICT novice, she needed my help, setting up Picasa on her netbook computer, to handle the many photos she expects to take, and to create a blog to record details of her work. It was gratifying to witness her delight when it all came together, and she posted her first couple of entries. I wish now I'd run those evening classes I always wanted to run, for adult newcomers to the digital age!
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