FantastICT & Stream2School working together to transform the impact of ICT in the classroom
14 June 2011
FantastICT and Stream2School are now working together to provide schools with the curriculum software titles and training that they need to improve pupil attainment.
The combination of a flexible rental service for educational resources and bespoke training provides schools with a entirely new recipe for curriculum success.
Stream2School offers a ‘software as a service’ approach to educational software, allowing schools to rent top curriculum titles for a four month term. This brand new concept gives schools access to the content they need while saving them hundreds of pounds each year in licensing costs. Stream2School’s service also makes these curriculum titles available to the school’s pupils when they’re at home.
FantastICT is the training partner of choice for some of the UK’s top content providers, including Promethean, Lightbox Education, 2Simple and Immersive Education. With training teams based in the North, Midlands and and South, FantastICT are able to offer either centre-based, school-based or online training on a wide range of educational software, helping teachers get the maximum benefit for their pupils.
Now Stream2School and FantastICT have reached an agreement to offer schools the opportunity to rent content and software titles and purchase training to support their use in one money-saving process.
“It just makes perfect sense for schools,” says Joe Basketts, Director at FantastICT. “Now they can concentrate their budgets on the specific subject areas they’ll be teaching in the coming term and create bespoke training packages to ensure that all their staff are able to get the most from that investment.”
Stream2School will offer schools the opportunity to mix and match content and training from their services, but will also create bundles aimed at key curriculum areas. “I think this is really exciting,” comments Ian Skeels, Managing Director of Stream2School. “We can select the best software titles to support the teaching of a specific topic and then provide training in the use of that software in a lesson to maximise the pupils’ progress and attainment.”
FantastICT’s existing team of educational consultants will be able to offer this combined service to schools immediately, while both Stream2School and FantastICT will promote the details of the joint approach on their respective web sites.
“It’s clearly a mutually beneficial arrangement for our companies,” says Ian Skeels, “but we also believe it offers something very attractive to schools. Now they can tailor their curriculum, the ICT that supports it, and the staff training and CPD that makes it successful, all in one planning process, and save money at the same time.”
For more information, visit Stream 2 School
