Building Schools for the Future

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Building Schools for the Future
Rebecca Goldberg - ARUP Keith Whiddon VT Four
S BETT 2007
Greenwich BSF ICT
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Greenwich BSF

• BSF Pathfinder status refreshment of whole of
  secondary estate in next 10 years
• Extended schools at the heart of new communities
• Unprecedented levels of investment by public and
  private sector

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Greenwich BSF - Opportunity for Regeneration

• Kidbrooke
• Greenwich Peninsula
• Thames Gateway
• Woolwich and Royal Arsenal
• 2012 Olympics
• New homes, new communities, new schools

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Wave 1 Schemes

• Thomas Tallis
• PFI New Build on existing site
• John Roan
• PFI New Build on new site
• Crown Woods
• DB New Build on existing site

• Eltham Hill
• Refurbishment on existing site
• Plumstead Manor
• Refurbishment on existing site

Greenwich will also be part of Wave 5
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Scope and size of ICT Managed Service

• 18500 pupils, 14 secondary schools, 3 waves
• Wave 1 8200 pupils, 5 schools, operational Sept
  09, 12m
• Future Waves 8700 pupils, 9 schools, 12.7m
• Potential expansion to Academies Primary
  Schools
• Potential expansion to other LBG services
• Commitment for ICT
• SBC and OBC received LBG Cabinet and PfS approval
• Schools committed to Managed Service

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Background to Greenwich BSF/VT partnership

• Comparison to LEP
• Direct Contract (SPO) not JV (LEP)
• Two stage selection
• Stage 1 VT appointed as the Strategic
  Partnering Organisation (SPO)
• Stage 2 Construction, ICT and FM Projects
  established through Competitive Procurement
• Benefits of Process
• Parties chosen on ability to fill specialist
  role, not overall consortium strength
• Focussed stakeholder contribution to Design gives
  greater control over Design

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Greenwich Contracts structure
The two Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV1 SPV)
will subcontract construction, FM services. ICT
will interface with SPVs
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Greenwich BSF Education, ICT, and Building
integration
Education Transformation
ICT underpin the LBG SBC ICT vision
Building designed to deliver desired educational
outcomes
Building FM
ICT
Buildings, FM ICT closely integrated at every
stage of the programme
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ICT Project Management

• Team
• 4 dedicated staff specialists LBG reps
• Finance
• Legal and contracts
• Procurement
• Process
• LBG and Schools BSF ICT Vision updated
• Produce Output Specification with schools
• Crucial importance of engagement and change
  management
• Competitive Dialogue Procurement Process

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Delivery Model

• ICT Managed Service direct with LBG SPO manages
  procurement
• May offer ICT Managed Service ahead of building
  go live date / ahead of wave
• Aim to offer elements of ICT service to non-BSF
  schools including Primary

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Timescales
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Greenwich BSF Engagement Programme

• The full engagement of stakeholders is essential
  to designing ICT solutions fit for purpose

• Wider schools representative group
• to develop the core ICT requirements and address
  the following

Workshop Themes a) ICT vision b)
Applications c) Infrastructure and equipment d)
Transition, implementation and operations e)
Managed service (input from PfS)

• This ICT Stakeholder Group to include
  headteachers / deputy heads from all Greenwich
  secondary schools and representatives from
  primary and special schools. Visit to C2K
  Northern Ireland in Autumn.
• Individual school design meetings
• to determine individual school enhancements. 3
  meetings with each of the schools on themes b),
  c) and d) ASAP during the autumn term

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ICT Towards a transformed education
NOW FUTURE

• ICT suites
• Some Interactive Whiteboards
• Student computer ratio of approx 14, access on
  demand
• ICT accessible only where cabling provided
• Personalised Learning Platform enables some
  students to access learning material from outside
  the school
• Some departments make extensive use of ICT to
  support learning and teaching
• School responsible for ICT support

• All learners have access on-demand to media rich
  learning resources and collaboration tools,
  anytime/anywhere, through industry-strength
  solutions
• All students and staff have true, open access to
  an appropriate ICT device for both class based
  and personalised learning
• All students and staff ICT confident and
  competent
• ICT enables community exposure to wider services
• Seamless, near real-time student data,
  safeguarded by leading edge ICT security,
  available across schools and LA
• Fully managed industry standard ICT service means
  that ICT is highly reliable and school staff not
  involved in maintaining equipment

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Greenwich BSF ICT Vision

• ICT is an extremely powerful medium for
  transforming learning, teaching, leadership and
  management. In Greenwich, ICT will
• Make a significant contribution to learning and
  teaching across all subjects and ages, inside and
  outside the curriculum
• Be used to improve access to learning for pupils
  with a diverse range of individual needs,
  including those with SEN and disabilities
• Be used as a means of enabling learning to take
  place more easily beyond the bounds of the formal
  school organisation and outside the school day
• Be used as a tool for whole-school improvement

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Greenwich BSF ICT Vision Key Aims

• Learning
• Raise standards by using ICT to improve learning
  and teaching, with practical web-based support
  linking up with other educational institutions
  where appropriate and access to a wider and
  richer range of resources.
• Supporting personalised learning to meet
  differentiated need, increasing personal choice,
  flexibility and variety in learning style or
  approach
• The enabling of each student to work seamlessly
  on multiple sites and improved communications
  with and between schools.
• Teaching
• Collegiate and collaborative working, including
  much wider sharing of information, the pooling of
  resources, to establish best practice in ICT
  pedagogy in every subject.
• Extending the use of ICT in the curriculum, its
  management and the use of information to improve
  learning and teaching.
• Ensuring excellent support for change management
  and continuing professional development for staff
  to ensure the technology is used to greatest
  effect.
• Communities
• Extending community use of school ICT resources
  through greater remote access facilities.
• Strategies for overcoming the digital divide are
  implemented.

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Greenwich BSF ICT Vision Key Aims

• Leadership
• Providing effective communication and business
  management information systems
• Providing high quality information management and
  integration with Council systems and thus
  positively impact on planning, monitoring,
  challenging and supporting schools
• Administration
• Enhancing school administration through the
  deployment of common software and connectivity.
• Enabling schools as organisations to maximise
  their efficiency
• Providing ICT that is highly reliable to relieve
  school staff from maintaining equipment or
  software

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Building Schools for the Future
Rebecca Goldberg - ARUP Keith Whiddon VT Four
S BETT 2007
Greenwich BSF ICT