Making evacuee ID cards with digitial images

Ms Ross is a P7 teacher at Croftfoot Primary School. Her pupils have been working on a project about World War 2. In today’s lesson, they will produce their own ID cards and evacuee labels.

Print full text of case study

Teacher profile

Ms Ross has been teaching for 30 years. And has been the ICT coordinator at Croftfoot Primary School for three years.

Ms Ross has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Computing as well as in-service courses through Education and Development in Information Communications Technology (EDICT) and Masterclass. Otherwise she has acquired her ICT skills through ‘hours of practice at home’, attending Scottish Education and Teaching with Technology (SETT) conferences and subscribing to online magazines from TOP, Becta and the NGfL.

Croftfoot Primary School has a suburban catchment area in south Glasgow. There are 409 pupils, of whom 16 per cent have free school lunches. Several pupils have special educational needs and three pupils speak English as a second language. There are 90 PCs - two in each classroom and three 'classrooms of the future'. Much of the curriculum is delivered through ICT, and in-house and EDICT training are available to staff.