Cornerstone Academy Trust is
just a small Academy trust
made up of four schools
and underpinning it is lots of technology.
We're here to give the very
best opportunities to children.
We want the highest quality
of teaching and learning,
taking place within
and across our schools.
It's a very exciting school to teach at,
I think you get a sense when
you come into the school
of how exciting education can be.
I think just by talking to the children,
you straight away get a feel
for how engaged they are
with their education.
The biggest challenge
for every great teacher,
and for all good schools
is just not enough time.
Over the many years that
we've been involved in working
in partnership with Microsoft,
investing in technology,
it began maybe with one
classroom 25 years ago,
through to today where
we've got one-to-one devices
for all the children.
Now a huge benefit for us as
teachers of having Surfaces
is the ability to digital ink,
to disconnect the keyboards,
you can walk around, they're very mobile,
they're very light.
And I just love the fact
that it's a live white board,
that the children who
are all sitting there
with their Surfaces have
live streamed to them,
so they can access all the
notes that we're making
during our teaching input.
And the kids love them.
- Surface is cool.
It got a camera involved,
so you can do video editing
and capture footage.
I can't imagine teaching
from another device now.
We used Microsoft 365
as the underpinning environment
that the children's learning
environment is built on.
It's so intuitive to use,
also like how collaborative it is.
The fact that we plan everything
on One Note and Teams.
The whole work suite has been really
a lot about being able to
integrate everything together.
We love the learning tools
in terms of supporting our children,
things like Immersive Reader,
you know, we're using
that everyday really,
it means that they can have the learning
that's tailored to them in
a way that doesn't make it
obvious that you're differentiating
or that they might need extra support
or specific like learning resources.
We've started recording lessons now
and uploading them to stream.
So if we've got an assembly
being streamed out,
or a lesson being delivered,
it's all there in one
location in Microsoft Teams.
- Hi William.
- Hi.
When we realized
that we're going into lockdown,
we had really good infrastructure in place
that we were able to issue
the devices that we've got out
to the children, so you can
have that virtual delivery.
We were doing live lessons.
Any questions, William?
Are you okay, do you have any questions?
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and a comma at the same time?
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- Yeah.
- Yeah.
The ability to remotely
attend your lessons,
as well as physically be in them,
is fundamentally got to be the future.
They amaze me with how much they adapt
to the technology and how
much they're able to apply
and learn how to use it,
going to bode so well for their future.
By having technology in the classroom,
you're just connected
to the world at large.
And so it brings so much more
experience to the classroom.
We don't see it as there's teaching
and learning and there's some IT,
these are the tools of the professional
to deliver education for the 21st century.