Award-winning schools honoured by the Deputy Mayor
Deputy Mayor Anna Berent welcomed students and headteachers from 7 Islington
schools into the Mayor’s Parlour after presenting Leading Aspect Award
certificates for the ‘Creative Use of New Technologies’ in their schools.
The seven schools involved are:
Blessed Sacrament RC Primary School
Copenhagen Primary School
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Language College (EGA)
St. Andrew’s CE Primary School
Samuel Rhodes School
Vittoria Primary School
Winton Primary School
Platform 1 at EGA
Independent assessors gave the schools, who are all part of the King’s Cross
Education Action Zone, top marks for their innovative use of computers after
witnessing the following projects:
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Linking up with 6 other schools in the UK’s first laser network
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Virtual Carmen – the world’s first Virtual Opera, where students rehearsed and
performed scenes from Carmen, linked to real Opera singers who were performing
on stage simultaneously. The final performance was streamed live on the
internet.
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A mousetrap car race, live across the internet, with a school in the USA,
using NASA’s technology to provide the live links.
Students also took the time to visit the council chamber to try out the
microphones used in council meetings and to see how it felt to sit at the top
table. “I love it here!” announced 10-year-old Stephan Ledsma from Winton
Primary School. He is also a big fan of the new computer technologies: “ICT is
fun and it makes your work easy. I used the computers to research information
and to put together film clips to make a film about vandalism.”
Mary Linington from CEA@Islington’s Excellence in the Cities project said:
"Congratulations to all the schools involved. This award recognises that
Islington and King's Cross in particular is leading the rest of the country in
the creative use of new technologies."
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