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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Parents' Questionnaire

My questionnaire is now accessible via the school website http://www.cjs.derby.sch.uk/questionnaire.doc and can be emailed back to me at admin@cjs.derby.sch.uk. Although it is addressed to CJS parents, I am also interested in other people's opinions too, so if anyone wishes to complete the questionnaire, please do so. Many thanks to those of you who have already completed the paper version.

Miss Joynes and I visited the BETT exhibition at Olympia last week and were amazed at some of the ideas being exhibited. We particularly liked the Qwizdom interactive remote response system (http://www.qwizdom.co.uk/) and have arranged for a demonstration to teaching staff. Some of the ideas seem so far advanced you wonder if they will ever find a place in school, yet it was just two years ago that I first saw the GroupCall SMS text messaging service for parents being exhibited at BETT, and now we have been trialling the system at CJS for the past three months to great effect. In fact, of all the technological changes we have introduced, this seems to be the one that has attracted the most positive feedback from parents. I'm looking forward to seeing if the questionnaire backs up my thoughts on this!

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