ICT

The John Bramston School & Sixth Form College has a campus-wide 1 Gigabit fibre and copper network enabling users to access and share files and applications from any computer. There are ten fully equipped computer suites available for pupils' academic use with more planned. These are used by classes throughout the day for the teaching of core ICT and for ICT use in other subjects.

Other areas of the School/College including Design and Technology, Art, Learning Support, Leisure and Tourism, Physical Education and the libraries have clusters of  networked computers with internet access, together with peripherals such as laser printers, scanners and digital cameras. A large number of classrooms have overhead data projectors and some have interactive classboards; an objective of the school is that this equipment will be available as a teaching tool in every classroom. The use of laptops and the wireless extension to the LAN network provides additional flexibility.

A twenty-four hour, 8Mb line connects the network to a filtered Internet provider which allows individual pupils access throughout the day from the Library and accommodates whole class use during lessons.  Communication within the school community is facilitated by providing staff members with a school email account. This facility could be extended to students in the future. Access to the School/College network is available from home using the Schools’ Ranger Outpost facility.

The School/College manages its own website, www.johnbramston.co.uk, and hopes to develop an intranet/extranet in the future to provide a central information and learning resource for the school community. This would include the library catalogue, an online calendar of events, as well as subject-specific information and resources.

Use of school/college IT facilities and network are subject to our Acceptable Use Policy.