Rob Couch, Head of ICT Services, Guernsey Education Department, Enabling Primary Curriculum Innovation through a Managed Service

Guernsey embarked on an ambitious strategic change programme to support learning through ICT. In September 2005 all the Island’s schools came back to a completely new managed ICT environment focused on enabling innovation, the 17 primary schools had agreed priority areas for the development of ICT integrated with AfL principles; learning intentions and success criteria are used to create assessment and recording facilities within SIMS. Schools are encouraged to post units of work online in order to build up an island-wide resource of knowledge, experience and practice. Elements of transformation are already evident.