Hello again,
Thought I would make a final post here about my experiences on the Friday. As I mentioned before the IT department is very basic at the school with no technicians or IT support on site. As the "IT expert" I was called in to help fix an audio cupboard. After about 20 minutes of poking and scratching my head I realised that it was only two wires that needed changing around. On my way back the IT co-ordinator told the head who thanked me and said I had saved him hundreds of pounds. I was quite surpirsed and asked him how. He said, I was just going to get the whole thing ripped out and replaced. A perfectly functioning audio cupboard and all it was was 2 wires the wrong way round.
Magnify that across the country and we may be seriously lacking in IT awareness in primary school. This was a fairly large school that you would imagine has a lot of funds directed to it relative to its size but the IT facilities were less than poor. The Head asked me to stay as he recognised the problems they were facing! I passed my email address on to the ICT co-ordinator and said she could email me with any issues and if I knew I would try and help but I am no technician.
Ok now onto my last day with the class. It was very sad to leave after such a brilliant week. I got the kids soime sweets which they had in "golden time". They made me a nice leaving card! Some of the highlights of the week have got to be showing children how to do certain sums and watching the penny "drop". When explaining Nelson Mandelas experiences the children did not understand why he didn't take his freedom when he was first offered it. I managed to use the example of animal cruelty to show them how they would feel if they could not stand up for what was right. That was amazing to see them understand how important he was.
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