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Blackfen School for Girls Blackfen Road Blackfen Sidcup Kent DA15 9NU Telephone: 020 78303 1887 About Blackfen School Blackfen School is a Secondary Modern School in LB Bexley. Our specialism is Maths and Computing. We have been using Fronter 2012 since 2007 and have become a London MLE Champion School this year London MLE (Fronter) INSET events Each session will run from 4:00pm – 5:30pm and they comprise Show and Tell Events of a mixture of skills based tutorials and opportunities to share good practise and to network with other schools. There may also be other local schools presenting their use of implementing Fronter. @ Blackfen School Dear Colleagues, Fronter INSET

Welcome to Blackfen School for Girls All sessions will take at Blackfen and will be coordinated Andy and to our Fronter workshop McGee AHT – Maths and Computing. They will run from 4:00pm programme for 2012. – 5:30pm at the latest Picture Please come to reception and someone will come to meet you. We have recently been awarded the here ‘London MLE Champion’ status and as Date Topic part of this we have developed a programme that will enable good Wed 26th Session 1: Show and tell event practice to be shared across schools. January Learn about how we are using Fronter at Blackfen, with It will also help schools to explore the 2012 students, staff and parents various areas of Fronter and to learn Session 2: Forum and Hand-in tools new skills that will help their students Thurs 9th Explore different uses of the Forum including for peer to engage with Fronter. February 2012 assessment and find out how to set and mark work using the Hand-in tool All Workshops, unless specified, are aimed at both Primary and Session 3:Creating and editing pages Secondary. Although they are offered on a drop in basis, it would Find out how to create a Frontpage for a room and how to Wed 14th format it for the maximum impact. Work on pages for your be helpful to let us know in advance of your attendance by emailing March 2012 own Fronter rooms during the session. How can you use Andy McGee at the email address below. We aim to offer practical the User defined button so that you create one Frontpage ‘hands on’ workshops where you can work on your own Fronter for multiple classrooms that only needs editing once? areas in a supportive and friendly environment. Session 4: How to use Fronter to communicate with your staff th Finally, if you have any questions regarding the workshops or Thurs 19 How to use Fronter to communicate with staff in a host of April 2012 different ways, including creating a Staff Room, a Trips perhaps you would like to book a place, please feel free to contact room, a Performance Management Room, sharing good us using the details below. We look forward to welcoming you to practice etc our school. Session 5: Survey, Test, Question Database and Vote Tools Andy McGee Wed 23rd Introduce some interactivity by using self marking tests May 2012 and votes on your Fronter pages. Canvass the whole school or specific groups on a subject and let Fronter do Andy McGee [email protected] the analysis Session 6: Open workshop Thurs 14th Celebrate your work so far and think ahead to the future. June 2012 Come with your questions and we will try to answer them!