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02.07.08 | Stephen Heppell: Student Voice: Sandwich Tech. School
Stephen Heppell: Student Voice Event
Posted: 02 July 2008
Stephen Heppell, described by Microsoft as “Europe’s leading online education expert”, facilitated a workshop for over 150 year 6 - 13 students from 28 Kent schools at Sandwich Technology School on 25 June 2008.
The workshop, one of a number of initiatives organised as part of the Kent BSF & Academies Programme, aimed to capture students' ideas about how and where they would like to learn in the future and to integrate these ideas into the development of new school facilities planned through the BSF Programme.
The half-day workshop saw the students working in mixed-age, mixed-school groups to prepare presentational "Blogs" around their ideas, linking these to a series of images uploaded by the students in advance of the workshop.
Each group of students also prepared a 1 minute film to discuss what they thought teachers should consider when planning for the new facilities.
The workshop ended with the students participating in live “Skype” discussions with students at schools in the Cayman Islands and Tasmania.
All the outputs of the event (films, images and texts) are being gathered together as a resource for school leaders, teachers, learners and officers to generate discussion about what C21st learning facilities might look like and, more importantly, what they should not look like.
The success of the initiative was evident in both the ideas and discussions it generated, as well as the enthusiasm and hard work of all the participating students.
Example Blog Images and Captions
"We like areas that give you
some space to work in.""We love our funky, star benches ...
large, tidy, grassy areas give a great
opportunity for refreshing the mind.""This is a school of the future!" The schools involved were:
DCSF consultation on new BSF proposals
Posted: 17 April 2008
Consultation: The Management of BSF waves 7 - 15 Author: Dept. of Children, Schools & Families For: Local authorities, dioceses and other voluntary aided bodies, school representatives and other bodies with an interest in capital investment in schools, including in the private sector. Date issued: 09.04.08 Responses by: 16.06.08 - to contribute to LA response
04.07.08 - for individual responsesSummary: This consultation seeks views on a range of proposals for how waves 7 - 15 of BSF are managed. The DCSF are currently consulting on the arrangements for the future management of the national BSF programme,taking into account changes in government policy and the lessons learned for waves 1-6.
As well as proposals for the accelerated entry of waves 7-15, the consultation covers:
- Prioritisation
- Joining-up BSF with other capital programmes
- Getting Everyone Started
- General project size and school grouping
- Readiness to deliver
- A more fluid programme of starts
- Local Educational Partnerships
For full details of the proposals, please open the following document: DCSF BSF W7-15
To date, Kent has played a particularly active and high profile role within the national BSF Programme. We have secured more BSF funding than any other LA for Waves 3-6 and are already planning for our involvement in waves 7 and beyond.
Kent will be submitting its own response to the consultation and we would like to ensure that takes on board the views of colleagues participating in waves 3-6, as well as those schools who will be assigned to future waves.
If you would like your response to inform Kent's, please open the following link to our online consultation form: Kent BSF Online Consultation. Please note that the deadline for responses is 16 June 2008. Full details of the context and background to each question are included in the DCSF Consultation paper above.
If you would like to make an individual response, please open the following link to the DCSF Consulation site: www.dcsf.gov.uk/consultations/conDetails.cfm?consultationId=1538. The deadline for responses to the DCSF is
4 July 2008.Wave 3 Open Exhibition / Planning Consultations
Posted: 15 March 2008In support of the formal planning application process, Wave 3 schools held a series of Open Exhibitions and Consultation Evenings (February - March 2008). The events provided local residents and parents of students at the school with an opportunity to review the proposals and raise any concerns they may have about them. The events were supported by the architect and contractor responsible for delivering the new facilities, as well as members of the BSF Project Team.
For more details about the proposals for each school, including how the construction phases will be managed, please see the individual school brochures below.
- St. John's Catholic Comprehensive School, Gravesend
Date: 25.02.08 | School Brochure- Northfleet School for Girls, Gravesend
Date: 26.02.08 | School Brochure- Charles Dickens School, Broadstairs
Date: 27.02.08 | School Brochure- Northfleet Technology College, Gravesend
Date: 28.02.08 | School Brochure- St George's CE Foundation School, Broadstairs
Date: 03.03.08 | School Brochure- Herne Bay High School, Herne Bay
Date: 05.03.08 | School Brochure- Community College Whitstable, Whitstable
Date: 06.03.08 | School Brochure- Thamesview School, Gravesend
Date: 06.03.08 | School Brochure- Dane Court Grammar School, Broadstairs
Date: 10.03.08 | School Brochure- King Ethelbert School, Birchington
Date: 11.03.08 | School Brochure- Portal House, Dover
Date: 12.03.08 | School BrochureCopies of the press releases are available from KCC's Online News Archives
If you have any enquiries or suggestions about how we can improve this site, please contact: bsf@kent.gov.uk
