Orwell High School, Felixstowe
From Schoolforge-UK
Orwell High School has 240 thin clients running on the commercially supported Cutter System
The Register carried this Case study by Mike Banahan of Cutter Project Limited, as well as another article about the switch to FLOSS here.
The BBC also screened a report in "Working Lunch" at 12:30pm on Thursday 10th February 2005. This can be streamed from the Cutter site.
Orwell is heavily featured in the TES article published on 6th May 2005 TES
They recently made a presentation to the British Computer Society OSS group, and Hertfordshire University are planning a conference in October where they will have a slot..
We also get a mention in the Sunday Observer on 15th May:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1483969,00.html
Many thanks to John Naughton for the publicity.
The BBC did a Working Lunch item following the Becta report on Monday 16th May 2005, and recycled some of their footage on Orwell.
Orwell offer support and advice on Open Source and networking to other Specialist Schools through the National ICT Register. Their staff also gave us a nice plug following the Becta report (see news):
The Times Ed will be running a lengthier feature on OSS in schools following the Becta report. This will be in their OnLine supplement published twice a term. A short feature appeared in the issue of 17th July, and there is a lengthier one promised for the Autumn.
There's another excellent case study write-up on the Specialist Schools iNet site.
We have been offered a seminar slot at BETT on Thursday 12th January 2006 at 3.15. Support would be gratefully received on the day.
Teacher's TV News are filming here on Friday 1st July. It will be a 3 way feature between Microsoft, Becta and us. Due for broadcast on Thursday 7th July, and re-runs for about a week I think.
