The member of staff who's imparting the knowledge can actually be shared between the partner schools. Without the video-conferencing it wouldn't be existing. Music tuition starts next week under a similar arrangement. We're allowed to go on them at dinner time and playtime. We're mostly on the internet, and writing stories and poems and printing them.
Educational games provide a fun element.
But someone might say the computer has got far more patience and will enable children to succeed far, far quicker than in a classroom. So technically the money that we've spent both in the infants suite and in the primary suite is well and truly justified. The school is below the national average in its pupils' test results. Mr Jones's target is to beat the average within three years. ICL is providing a total package including networked PC's, software, the virtual reality and video-conferencing facilities, educational services and technical support.