Best Practice

What are Digital Leaders?

What are Digital Leaders? And what benefits can this idea bring to your school's ICT strategy and to your pupils' technology and wider skills, such as literacy and leadership? Sal McKeown finds out


Recreation Road Infant School in Norwich has some of the youngest Digital Leaders in the UK. Twelve year 2 children took part in a session at the Education Show in March.

The school is very well resourced there is an ICT suite for dedicated whole-class ICT teaching as well as interactive whiteboards, PCs in the classroom, digital cameras, calculators, robotic toys and microphones, and two years ago they started to invest in iPads.

Unlike other schools, ICT is coordinated by a higher level teaching assistant, Louise Stone, rather than a member of the senior management team: "Teachers don't necessarily have the skills and time to take on this area," explained headteacher Serena Dixon.

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