“If you can’t reach, you can’t teach.”
The solution
‘Project Chrome’ was started in May 2019 - the mission to implement a new technology plan across Cransley School that would aid a continuance of learning in School and at home.
Cransley were offered the opportunity to become partners with Google and to become a ‘Chromebook for Education’ School.
Our new upgraded cloud-based server and wireless systems, funded by the Cransley Foundation, facilitated new innovative remote teaching methods at all key stages, using the robust and versatile Google Classroom system.
During Lockdown - Junior Assembly time
Cransley School Online
Nothing is more important than seeing our children face-to-face in the classroom and online, and the integrated Google Meet video conferencing system allows teachers to have that vital frequent connection with their pupils.
The warm, nurturing relationships - such a vital characteristic of a caring School - continued unaffected, with personal contact between pupil and teacher made several times daily to ensure wellbeing and academic and personal growth.
This regular personal interaction, and the interactive variety of assignments and a fundamental quality of feedback and relevance that sets Cransley School Online apart from other schools.
If you can’t reach, you can’t teach.
Pupils are given a broad variety of visual, auditory and kinaesthetic academic tasks - just as they would in our classrooms - fully engaging and entertaining.
“It is never ‘just a worksheet’. The magic of learning can still be there!”
Using Google G-Suite allows for collaboration, break-out groups, presentations, shared research, discovery and peer interaction.
Once completed, feedback from the teacher is detailed, personalised, and focussed on the pupil’s next stage in learning, allowing the online system to enhance and support excellent practice in the classroom itself.
We even have a Cransley Staffroom wherein we share excellent ideas, techniques and practice.
Therefore regardless of what the future brings, we know that our pupils are being given the very best care and continuity of learning.
“When we did open, our pupils were equipped with a set of skills and character which will benefit them throughout their academic and vocational lives.”
Our aim now is to maximise these skills and our new technology to exemplify blended educational technology in a new and even better way of learning, now and into the future.
In class and online