‘Putting students at the heart of everything it does’, every young person in our care is known as an individual (Ofsted January 2010). Trentham High School is a mixed, non-denominational school situated on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent. The school was awarded Specialist Science Status and Healthy Schools Award (September 2009); becoming a Foundation School and then a Co-operative Trust in April 1^st 2010. This ‘change in status’ helps us to continue to build strong links with our community and become a truly member driven organisation; preserving and developing our ethos for future generations. Our ‘co-operative’ members are the community: parents, staff, students, governors, local organisations and businesses. The Trustees of our school include Newcastle-under-Lyme College, the Co-operative College and Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form. We believe that Co-operative Trust status will develop our already successful school.’

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Here at Trentham School we have already begun using iPads in lessons to allow students to reap the benefits of touch device technology. In a traditional lesson students would go on a trip, or look at books to imagine their surroundings for practising French Vocabulary. However today we used an app called ‘Tourwrist’ to place the students inside a 3D location photograph that they could take screenshots of. We then used ‘iMovie’ to narrate in French what we were seeing in the slideshow.

The finished results are available to watch here. Please remember we did this in an hour of school time and many of the students had never used an iPad before. I think the students did amazingly well at this task as the vocabulary was new to them. There was a tremendous excited buzz at the end of the lesson where we got the students to introduce their own work and showed each project on the projector.

Project 1

Project 2

Project 3

On May 31st we will be celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee so students will be encouraged to come into school dressed in red,white and blue colours.  Students will be asked to contribute £1 if they wish to wear red, white and blue.

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Click here for details of our weekend of family fun at Trentham High School’s Community Games on 23rd June.

We are still looking for support for our iPad scheme to enable every child in the school to have equal access to personalised learning. There will be another opportunity to come into school and ask questions on Wednesday and Thursday this week, as detailed in a letter from the school. It is very important that we reach the required donation level, as unless we do the scheme can’t run. If the suggested donation seems expensive it is important to speak to us and donate what you can.

For anyone who missed the actual launch event, a short video is now available to explain why we believe this scheme to be the best possible opportunity for our students to embrace future technology. The eLearning Foundation scheme is the only way we can do this whole school, as it guarantees access to 24 / 7  learning for all students. The video has been updated now to show actual project work completed by the students.

Click here to watch the iPad launch video.

Click on TrEAD Summer School 2012 for details of TrEAD’s exciting Summer School which takes place Monday 30th July to Friday 3rd August 2012.

The iPad launch event last night was a great success, with students showing off the work they had been producing earlier in the day.