Implementing e-learning - St Pauls Burgess Hill

The recent relocation of St Paul’s Catholic College to its new site in Burgess Hill provided the College with the perfect opportunity to invest in an innovative e-learning vision, central to the design and infrastructure of the building, following many months of planning including visits to other schools.

The building is equipped with state-of-the-art technology including powerful servers, wired and wireless network and more than 250 desktop computers with flat-panel monitors. Every teaching room throughout the College is equipped with an interactive whiteboard, projector and sound system. All teachers, learning support staff and study supervisors have been provided with a laptop and are fully trained to use the interactive whiteboards.

Staff receive regular professional development to continually improve their ICT competency and in-service training is geared towards delivering enhanced learning and teaching through the use of e-technologies. In 2003 the College appointed an E-Learning Leader from the staff, and the following year added an E-Teaching Leader, the latter with responsibility to train staff and research into developments in whiteboard use.