Pictured above: Richard Hinton, Managing Director
of First Class Technologies (left) and Steve Peace, Assistant Head
of Nether Stowe School (right).
Lichfield based First Class Technologies has worked with
Nether Stowe School to upgrade their ICT solutions. The
improvements have enhanced the use of new technologies across
the school helping to create a 21st Century learning
environment.
Nether Stowe School is a specialist mathematics and computing
college for 750 eleven to eighteen year old students. With
the strong emphasis on new technology to deliver courses at Nether
Stowe, the school has a heavier reliance on ICT than most.
Steve Peace, Assistant Head at Nether Stowe School
explains: "We recognised that in order to continue to meet the
needs of our students and to ensure the effective running of the
school, that we had to upgrade our ICT systems. Our existing
technologies had become dated resulting in insufficient levels of
performance and downtime during lessons. First Class
Technologies were able to demonstrate extensive experience of
successful implementations in a number of other schools. We
also liked the fact that they were local."
Richard Hinton, Managing Director of First Class Technologies
explains: "First Class Technologies has extensive experience
of implementing campus wide ICT solutions in schools. We have
introduced similar solutions for a number of schools in area
including Sutton Coldfield based John Willmott School. Based
on these projects and taking into consideration Nether Stowe's
specific requirements, we recommended a complete Microsoft based
solution, new servers and improved anti virus software. "
Steve Peace continues: The school saw immediate benefits
from the solution. Performance of the workstations has
increased dramatically as well as the stability of the network,
this has freed up the ICT team considerably and increased the
amount of time they can spend supporting students and helping to
drive up learning output.
Steve Peace concludes: "We have been incredibly impressed
with First Class Technologies. They have delivered a cost
effective solution that perfectly fits our requirements. The
entire project ran smoothly, the team were informative and most
importantly we have seen immediate benefit."