Our school is currently going through a rebranding effort, so it makes sense for the school website to be updated too. However, I haven’t really been involved with this much until the marketing team our school uses came to me to let me preview the new website. If there’s one thing that I don’t like […]
Month: September 2016
CyberCenturion III – Introductory Round 1
Last year, our school participated in the CyberCenturion challenge. To quote from their website: Are you age 12-18 and enjoy puzzles, code breaking and cyber? Then our CyberCenturion competition could be just the thing for you. What this involves is running a virtual machine with either Windows or Ubuntu and “fixing” security problems with it. […]
We Have The Summer Holidays For This…
Apart from building work, a large part of the school Summer holidays are spent getting all of the computers ready for when staff and students come back in September. Most of the time this means installing or updating software, or general hardware or software maintenance that can’t be completed when people are around. During these […]
The New Staffroom
Last year we got ourselves a new office. This year, it was the rest of the staffs turn. Well, that’s not entirely true. They already had a staffroom, but it was to be converted into offices for use by inclusion staff instead (the official reasoning for this is: “Inclusion is at the heart of the […]
Fun With Monitoring Software
Due to new regulations from the Department of Education that come into effect from September 2016 regarding Keeping Children Safe in Education, new software has been installed across the school network to ensure the appropriate use and monitoring of the ICT facilities and the Internet for safeguarding purposes… That was how my email to parents […]
It’s Been A Long Time…
How have you been? I’ve been really busy… A year is a long time, and it’s more-or-less that amount of time since I created a post on my blog last. Sorry about that. But to make up for it, here’s a quick run through of things I’ve done in the past year: Got a new […]