Focus event a success

Despite traffic congestion due to an accident and one of the team being held over in Bulgaria due to volcanic ash - all went well on the day. We had some lovely people from our local community who really enjoyed our mini-training session. They were kind enough to complete our questionnaires and provide us with plenty of feedback. Valerie Singleton was amazing, really energetic and interested in the BIMA challenge as well as the training scheme we were planning. She asked us to keep in touch and let her know how things progressed. Our local MP Tobias Ellwood came along to find out more about the digital divide and how we were planning to help older users. Plus our business partners came too - they seemed really pleased with the event as we had put their advice into practise. EVERYBODY liked the afternoon tea element - our research on cakes was accurate and we only had a few left to share at the end of the day!!! Oh yes, the local paper - The Bournemouth Echo came too - a reporter and a photographer so we hope lots of people will read about it and decide to come along when the training starts in July. To finish we went into the 3D cinema and everybody thought this was amazing, which made us realise how lucky we are to have it in school. We were nervous beforehand but Ms Loughnan said we were tremendous giving our presentation, very professional with our business partners and incredibly patient with our visitors using the Internet.