Month: January 2015

Digital ‘champion’ visits Bantry school

LORD David Puttnam, in his capacity as ‘Ireland’s Digital Champion’ visited Saint Finbarr’s Boys’ National School of Bantry last week.

Puttnam was accompanied by Sean Kelly, chairman of the Board of Management, as they heard about the school’s involvement in digital media and the positive benefits of technology in education.

The younger classes enjoyed an enthusiastic discussion with Lord Puttnam about the educational benefits of Google Earth and Apps such as ‘Save the Pencil’.

Puttnam enthused them all by exploring the advantages of their Edmodo system, in which the children can, and have, safely shared photographs and experiences of foreign and national trips.

Activities Future Skills

David Puttnam talks to the high school students about education development

David Puttnam talks to students in Le Hong Phong Senior High School During the visit to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and Burma, Lord David Puttnam, the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy had a talk with students and teachers in Le Hong Phong Senior High School on January 29 about how to develop education to meet globally intellectual economic market and technology to improve skill workforce.

The conversation generated around what globally intellectual economic market and what education should grow to meet the developing trend of intellectual economic market.

Activities Future Skills

Queen Elizabeth Academy pupils take inspiration from Oscar winner Lord Puttnam CBE

Lord David Puttnam at Queen Elizabeth Academy

Nine pupils from the school were given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the producer of 1980s hit Chariots of Fire face-to-face, while he visited a school in Stoke. More of the Atherstone-based students were able to take part in a live Skype chat with Lord Puttnam from their pioneering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) lab.

The former head of Columbia Pictures in Hollywood and House of Lords representative had been invited to the Innovation School Stoke, which is part of the Erudition Schools Trust, on Thursday, January 15 to officially open the alternative education centre.

Activities Education

Lord David Puttnam officially opens Innovation School Stoke

Lord Puttnam at Watermill School in Chell

YOUNG people were put through their movie-making paces by a legendary film producer when he officially opened their school.

Pupils at Innovation School Stoke (ISS) worked with Lord David Puttnam to edit snippets of an anti-bullying video they have created.

During his visit today, he also toured the facilities and learnt more about the school’s work in supporting some of the most disaffected youngsters in Stoke-on-Trent.

ISS offers alternative provision for 11 to 16-year-olds, who either cannot cope in mainstream education or have been excluded from previous schools.

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