Designing healthy eating posters

Lesley Aitken is head teacher at Johnstonebridge Primary. In today's environmental studies lesson, her class is using Textease to produce posters about healthy eating. The posters feature photographs of the fruit trees that the pupils planted two years ago in the school courtyard. Each month the pupils have recorded, on a spreadsheet, information about the growth of the trees.

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Lesley Aitken has been teaching for 20 years and is the head teacher at Johnstonebridge Primary School. She is currently doing a City and Guilds course on Web Design and Management, and comments that some of her ICT skills come from her involvement with the school project 'ICT and school links' (part of the pan-European Comenius programme).

Ms Aitken uses ICT on a regular basis in her teaching, for internet research, spreadsheets, word processing, digital camera work, design and website development.

Johnstonebridge Primary School is situated in the village of Johnstonebridge, in Dumfries and Galloway. The school was established over 125 years ago and there are currently 22 pupils in the school. Six pupils are registered as having special educational needs and three pupils have free school lunches. There are two teachers and one support teacher.

The school has seven PCs, at least one in each classroom, all connected in a local network. ICT support is available from the local education authority when needed and ICT training is available for staff through various courses.