Year 3 and 6 open day

I just finished an open day. The children in year 3 were given their toshiba laptops. Wilsden has an ownership model and most of the questions I was asked were quite sensible.

I asked parents of year 3 and 6 to search for Wilsden Primary School on facebook and to add us as a friend so I will await to see the results of that. My estimate is that 5 or so parents will, my logic is that if I can get enough parents on then I can get a network of parents together to provide quality feedback.

Here are some of the questions that were asked today:

• Can a parent send email to child's email address?
• Can parents send emails to teachers?
• Can your child keep the laptop when they leave year 6?
• Will we have more idea of what children are covering in lessons on say a weekly basis on each subject?
• Is non school software allowed on the netbooks?
• How will back ups work? What if the device is lost?

For the record, I took pictures of these questions on my HTC hero but the focus is so bad I can't even read them.

Next stop is answering these questions on the school blog which is available at http://wilsden.primaryblogger.co.uk

One thing I did find interesting is that parents put their mobile # and name on the post stick note for everyone to see, I guess they expect that the school would call them and answer their query instead of publicly answering it. Maybe they got asked to and I was day dreaming!