School Improvement for Digital Transformation

Our School Vision for Technology

Our shared vision for change recognises that technology is continually evolving within the wider world. As an educational establishment, we are developing our digital transformation strategy to help us to identify and develop technology for all stakeholders to reach their full potential in becoming global citizens of the future. 

Through building on a coalition of partnerships and innovative research, including developers at Microsoft, we hope to enhance and expand the systems, teaching and learning tools, communication and digital safeguarding procedures. 

Microsoft’s Education Transformation Framework

Bantock’s Technology Transformation Roadmap demonstrates a mature digital transformation journey aligned to Microsoft’s Education Transformation Framework, establishing strong leadership, modern teaching practises, intelligent environments and student success. The roadmap begins with the development of Intelligent Environments through cloud infrastructure, collaboration platforms, devices and security. Leadership capacity is then established through Digital Leads, Microsoft accreditation and strategic partnerships. The focus subsequently shifts towards Teaching and Learning through digital skills, 21st Century Learning Design, personalised professional development, intelligent assessment and AI-supported learning. Microsoft’s AI Transformation strategy comes into the later stages of development focussing on educator capacity building, responsible AI adoption, personalised learning, inclusion, community impact and sustainable governance. The final stages prioritise Student and School Success by strengthening inclusion, wellbeing, adaptive learning, community engagement and long-term sustainability through full compliance with DfE Digital Standards. The roadmap demonstrates a progression from digital transformation to AI-enabled school improvement, positioning Bantock as a model of responsible innovation and future-ready education.

We hope to digitally build upon an ethos of inclusive learning strategies minimise the barriers our children face and which supports our pupil centred pedagogy. By exploring aspects of digital learning education, tools and spaces, we want to enhance and expand the curriculum to build rewarding, enjoyable and challenging experiences that inspire pupils and provide a firm foundation of lifelong learning. We strongly believe that all pupils have the right to develop to their full capacity, and to do this, we want to enhance accessible technology that will meet the needs of all pupils and empower them to take ownership for their learning.  

We continue to enhance physical, digital and hybrid realms within school to enable pupils to take further responsibility of their learning and build greater opportunity for flipped learning both in and outside of the school curriculum and accommodate a range of learning styles and user needs.  

With the ever changing digital world presenting greater risks, including the use of AI, we will shape further responsive systems in place to monitor and ensure all stakeholders are safe and secure; with a continuously evolving infrastructure, further developed knowledgeable staff and an even more robust curriculum that supports pupils and parents, working simultaneously with our embedded effective safeguarding systems. 

To further support staff wellbeing in the establishment, we aim to enhance school systems available, including the use of AI and Microsoft, to optimise the efficiency of daily operations to increase productivity and decrease workload to provide a better work life balance. 

Continuing the journey of strategic change management and planning with Microsoft will support in embedding a future-ready environment of learning, collaboration and communication.  

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