It would have been pretty easy to just arrange an afternoon or two for some older folk to come into school and show them some ICT things but if we were going to do this properly we needed to do more research. We contacted Age Concern to find out if they provided any training and the local library service, both did have training available but there were people on waiting lists. This demonstrated to us that there was a real need for the training we were thinking of and that being in school we could provide ongoing support not just a quick course, then you were on your own which probably would be the worst thing for older people. We talked to our SEN department and also our systems manager to see if we might develop a portal on the school website so that our older students could revisit their learning and get further support. Everybody we dealt with was really positive.
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