Bryan Slater Director of Education	Distribution
	Headteachers/ICT Co-ordinators All Schools

This document needs your action as detailed below:

ACTION	Title	ICT in Schools – One Day Conferences 29, 30 and 31 March, 2004
	Summary of contents	Letter from Paul Fisher inviting schools to attend the ICT in Schools one day conference
	Associated documents
	Date	16 February, 2004
	Summary of action required	If you wish to attend the conference, book on line via the ICT Solutions website http://ictsolutions.norfolk.gov.uk/ictinschools by Friday, 5 March, 2004
	To be completed by	Friday, 5 March, 2004
	LEA Contact	Judy Houghton Sarah Harris	(	01603 475647
	E-mail address	judy.houghton@norfolk.gov.uk or sarah.harris@norfolk.gov.uk
	Norfolk Self Review reference	8. How well does the school use its resources?
	Document reference	MI 38/04

Dear Colleague

ICT IN SCHOOLS - ONE DAY CONFERENCES 29, 30, AND 31 MARCH 2004

I would like to invite you to one of the ICT IN SCHOOLS conferences we are organising over the last three days in March. Given the success of the conferences last year we are planning a similar type of event but this time focussed on the use of ICT.

Whilst the overall theme for the conference will be the Use of ICT we will be focussing on three themes each day, ie:

· The Use of ICT in Learning

· Learning Systems, Training and Hands on Support

· Community Learning

The conference will be a mix of general, broader focussed, innovation and discursive sessions, supported by more specialist sessions and demonstrations of best practice taught lessons and suppliers products.

The conference will highlight the Government’s changing policy context, which is now focussed on ICT pedagogy and whole school improvement. It will set out to show how Norfolk is supporting schools to become e-confident.

Opportunities will be given to delegates to listen to external speakers; talk to suppliers; see good practice being demonstrated in a virtual school and see a range of software available to schools.

The three one-day conferences are being held at the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Each school is invited to send two staff to one of the day time conferences.

The conference will be an opportunity for Headteachers and ICT Co-ordinators to obtain an update of ICT strategy, developments, initiatives and best practices. A number of Advisory Service staff and ICT Solutions staff will also be available each day to deal with individual school queries.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to attend one of the above days. The programme of events is repeated on each day to ensure that all schools are receiving the same information. Registration and coffee will be at 08.30 hours, with the conference beginning at 09.15 hours. Lunch will be provided.

This year’s conference is also extending into the early evening on 29 and 30 March to give the opportunity to teaching staff and governors who cannot attend during the day. Evening places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

If you wish to attend the conference, including the early evening sessions, please book on line via the ICT Solutions Website http://ictsolutions.norfolk.gov.uk/ictinschools by Friday, 5 March, 2004.

Further details, including the location venue, will be sent out nearer the date.

If you have any queries, please contact Judy or Sarah on 01603 475647.

Yours sincerely

Paul Fisher

Head of Service