Posted in All posts, Events etc., Schools, Silver Surfers
Chesham High School‘s commitment to older learners and IT, goes from strength to strength (see earlier posting here ).
This report from Siobhan Bygate, Head of Humanities at Chesham High School, Bucks, talks of a school working with sheltered housing, a local older person’s group and with schools in Africa and Paris, using live webcam debate: Read the rest of this entry »
May 5th, 2009 gilladams | 2 Comments »
Posted in Learning, Schools, Silver Surfers
The residents of local sheltered housing and students from Chesham High School, Year 12 and 13, combined to form a learning and teaching unit for senior citizens to communicate on the World Wide Web and gain IT skills.
This project has been facilitated with the help of Paradigm Housing, Digital Unite and Virgin Media.
The project has had a number of positive outcomes: Read the rest of this entry »
March 30th, 2009 gilladams | 4 Comments »
Posted in Schools
I am Trudi Hamer, the Community Development Worker at Chailey School. In January we decided that Chailey School was going to run a Silver Surfer’s Day. Chailey is a specialist school with a Humanities specialism and a Languages specialism, which means that the school is required to work with the wider community; Silver Surfer’s Day is a great opportunity to interact with the community as well as develop intergenerational links with members of the wider community. Read the rest of this entry »
March 17th, 2009 bobholmes | 8 Comments »
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Just couldn’t resist re-posting this lovely bit of film; Silver Surfers’ Day takes place (for a week) annually at Ampney Crucis School in Cirencester and this is BBC Points West TV of it in, I think, 2007.
March 17th, 2009 gilladams | No Comments »