ICT in A Curriculum for Excellence

Mary is successfully implementing an ambitious strategy that enables pupils to use ICT 'anywhere and anytime' through a school-wide wireless network. The strategy includes the piloting of future learning curriculum models, and the completed Phase 1 consisted of a pilot which has resulted in all the second year pupils having a handheld PC unit for home and school use.

Find out how Phase 2 is progressing and how the school's exploration of ICT is helping to deliver Curriculum for Excellence.

Winner of the Becta Leadership of Learning Award 2004, Mary McLaughlin has been Headteacher of Notre Dame High School since 1990. A member of the Curriculum Review Board and Future Learning and Teaching Reference Group, Mary has a long-standing demonstrable commitment to developing confident learners and responsible citizens.

Educated in St Patrick's High School, Coatbridge and University of Glasgow, Mary began her teaching career in St Gregory's Secondary in Cranhill before becoming PT of Modern Languages in St Margaret's High School in Airdrie, then Assistant Head in Taylor High School, New Stevenson.