Shapes and angles on an interactive whiteboard

Louise Collins is a teacher who is using an interactive whiteboard to enhance a maths lesson about shapes and angles. She has designed her own flipcharts for this lesson. Each of the nine pupils in the maths set gets a chance to come up to the whiteboard and move shapes around or measure angles.

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Teacher profile

Ms Collins has been teaching for five years and is a P6 teacher at Ayr Grammar Primary School. 

She attended a four-day Masterclass course and has supplemented her ICT skills through help from colleagues and peers, and simply by trying things out herself. 

She currently uses the ICT suite (with the interactive whiteboard) for one and a half hours a week. She uses the four computers in her classroom regularly and has the opportunity to use 12 laptops in class, booking them out when she needs them. 

Ayr Grammar Primary School opened in 1875 and still occupies the original building. There are 430 pupils, including 40 with special educational needs. 50 pupils have free school lunches and three speak English as a second language. 

The school has 60 computers – at least one in every classroom and 16 in the large ICT room. There is a wireless network connection. The school has three interactive whiteboards, one permanently in the ICT room and two ‘floating’ – teachers take it in turns to have a whiteboard in their classroom for a term at a time. 

The depute head teacher is the ICT coordinator. ICT training is specific to the needs of the school and the individual teacher and is given by Ms Collins or the depute head teacher.