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There’s a revolution happening in the school office - 25/08/2008
Traditionally the school office has not been seen as the most exciting part of the school. While teachers have been busy introducing interactive whiteboards and laptops into the classroom, the office has been perceived by the powers-that-be as remaining the domain of the school secretary, for chasing absent children and reconciling the dinner money.
Thus, while five year olds trawl the internet seeking information on dinosaurs and compete in world-wide maths competitions, many school offices continue to send out messages to parents via the tried and tested method of handing a note to pupils and students who may (or may not) take it home (often several weeks late and covered in sweet wrappers).
It’s all been a bit low tech.
Meanwhile, if the parents wanted to know how their child was getting on it was a matter of asking the child – not the most reliable approach. Inspecting the child’s results along with the teachers’ comments on-line has not been even a remote possibility.
Until now, that is. For in the past few years headteachers have started to realise that for the school to operate efficiently and effectively it is vital that the computerisation that has been part of the classroom these past twenty years is fully integrated into the school office.
Whether it’s the library, registration, communication with parents, homework, grades, timetable, research, record-keeping, reminders to students, or any one of a hundred other administrative tasks, there is a huge benefit from putting this work into one integrated digital system. Exactly as happens in most company offices.
This new approach to the administration of schooling is widely accepted around the world and is now being brought to Britain by Scholaris who are already major players in this market in Australia and Canada.
As Justin Cantrill said, “We introduced the Scholaris approach to a group of schools in Britain last year. The results and feedback as been exceptionally positive, which is why we are now making this radical approach which has transformed the organisation of schools in many other countries, available in Britain.