Colston's Primary School
The school has around 400 pupils, aged 4-11. The social, ethnic and cultural mix of the school population reflects the diversity of the neighbourhood and the city. About 35% of the pupils are from minority ethnic groups and among them are around 20 home languages. 10% of pupils have special educational needs. The buildings are a mix of adapted Victorian and recent modern additions. The computer suite in the basement was a new addition when the InterActive Research Project started. Each class had its own computer.
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Easton CE VA Primary School
The school is part of an inner city, multi-ethnic community. Among the 350 pupils about a fifth have English as a second language; and more than a quarter have special educational needs. The school is in spacious modern buildings. The computer suite is large and equipped with an interactive white board. Each class has a computer.
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St Michaels CE VC Primary School
With nearly 600 pupils, St Michael's is the largest primary school in South Gloucestershire. It is situated in Stoke Gifford, once a village on the edge of Bristol and now a large dormitory suburb. The school, in a modern building with spacious grounds, is located among relatively recent housing developments.
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Teyfant Community School
The school is situated on the outskirts of the city in an area of high unemployment and social need. Almost half of the pupils are eligible for free school meals. The pupils are mainly from white British families. From the approximately 450 pupils, a quarter have special educational needs.
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Cotham School
The school is a specialist performing arts college. It is large with nearly 1,000 students in the 11-16 age range, and around 350 post-16. Situated in north central Bristol, the school has an ethnically mixed population. It describes itself as 'high achieving and oversubscribed'.
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Fairfield High School
The school caters for 11-16 year-olds. With under 500 students the school is small. It is situated in an urban residential area on a cramped site. A high proportion of those attending the school are from ethnic minority backgrounds and this reflects the local community which is culturally and socially diverse. About a quarter have English as a second language. A third are eligible for free school meals and about the same propostion have special education needs. Attainment is above average for similar schools. At the time of the project the school was not technology rich and the architecture of the Victorian buildings in which the school is housed made access difficult.
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Filton High School
The school has an 11-18 intake. There are slightly fewer than 1,000 11-16 year-olds and a 6th Form of around 160. The students are predominantly white British with around 20% black African-Carribbean, African or from the Indian sub-continent. Around 16% are eligible for free school meals and 19% have special educational needs. Students are drawn from the local area and from further afield. In the immmediate catchment area relatively few adults have experience of higher education. The school is in a rapidly developing area, close to a large business park; but surrounded by green spaces. At the time of the project provision and use of ICT was patchy and inconsistent across the curriculum.
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John Cabot CTC
The school opened in 1993 an an independent City Technology College, sponsored by the Wolfson Foundation and Rolls Royce. The site, with purpose-built accommodation, is on the outskirts of Bristol. Students are accepted after interview and an assessment of their ability and aptitide for the style of education the school offers. There are around 800 students in the 11-16 age-range and a sixth form of 250. The school day is about an hour longer than LEA schools and the year is divided into 5 terms. As a CTC, and in comparison with other project schools, it was technology-rich.
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Sir Bernard Lovell School
Situated in South Gloucestershire LEA, between Bristol and Bath, the school has over 1,000 11-16 year-olds and a flourishing post 16 group which operates in partnership with five other schools and a FE College. The students come from the immediate neighbourhood and from the wider area of the county. They make up a wide range of social backgrounds and are mainly white European. At the time of the project the school was making a noticeable investment in ICTs.
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City of Bristol College
The college has expanded rapidly and is now the largest in the region with 40,000 students from 14 to adult. It is located in eight centres across the city. The InterActive project worked with teachers and students from the new city centre site which was very well equipped with ICTs.
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