Specialist School Status
Vyners School was designated a Specialist Maths and Computing School in September 2003.
In the years following designation there were many significant developments including;
New specialist school wing with ICT equipped maths room and conference room for use by school and community;
Improved ICT infrastructure so we now have;
12 ICT suites,
10 sets of 16 mobile wireless laptop units,
10 rooms with multiple computers, most recently art
a permanent video conferencing facility with an effective booking system,
personal laptops for each member of staff who has requested one,
a networked admin computer in every classroom with interactive whiteboard and audio system
specialist graphics and music rooms
Cad Cam machine
Host centre for Hillingdon Adult Education delivering ICT courses and ICT based Spanish classes;
Substantial annual donations to partner primary schools, Breakspear, Glebe, Oak Farm and Hermitage.
Leading, funding and developing video conferencing projects with our partner primary schools including a strong focus on KS2/3 transition;
Providing regular technical support for ICT to a primary partner school.
Sharing good practice in mathematics with local primary and secondary schools through our Maths AST; regularly hosted the LEA Maths Challenge competition and freely shared resources and ICT based assessment tools, maths master classes for Year 6 students;
Providing regular generic in-school ICT training open to all staff throughout the school year and staff development funding for subject specific ICT training to encourage CPD and the cross-curricular ICT;
Purchase of subject based electronic resources and a digital video learning platform that delivers digital video resources to every classroom
Following our Ofsted inspection in September 2008 we applied for re-designation as a Specialist School and confirmation of the successful re-designation bid was received in December 2008 and we now move forward with the next stage of our development.
Within the school we will continue to expand the IT opportunities available to our students, and the wider community, and we will be increasing the range of Mathematics and IT qualifications available to or students.
We will be working with our partner primary and secondary schools to assist them in various projects including increasing their range of resources and IT infrastructure.
We have established links with Age Concern and will be running courses on the use of the internet and software packages.
We would welcome expressions of interest from other community groups and local employers on the use of our facilities’ to develop their ICT skills, to brush up on their maths or to pursue hobbies.
If you would like to make use of the facilities and expertise available at Vyners please contact Mr J Davey by phone 01895 234 342 or email jdavey6@hillingdongrid.org