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hiswick School is a secondary school, celebrating its centenary in 2016.
Three years ago the school’s headmaster, Tom Ryan, outlined a vision
to become one of the leading schools in the country when it came to educational IT. Every student would have their own device and IT would be an integral part of teaching and learning with staff amongst the best trained in the country. To achieve this vision it needed first to replace a number of old and underperforming devices, streamline the number of support contracts in place and get its spiralling IT budget under control. Having identified potential savings across its printing landscape, Chiswick
School worked with BAC Office Equipment on a programme of changes based on KYOCERA technology. Marcus Decieco, Managing Director, BAC Office Equipment Ltd said:
“We started working with Chiswick School fifteen years ago when it had one printer. The increasing demands of the school meant they moved up to eight devices after five years. The school realised it needed to make some significant savings on it’s printing so we upgraded the printers to KYOCERA devices which immediately saved the school 45% on running costs.” Paul Sykes, Business Development Manager, Chiswick School, explains:
“Our head teacher Tony Ryan had sorted out the printing with BAC around three years ago which has made a significant difference to staff and students as well as delivering better value for money for the school. Printing is now easier throughout the school, with devices placed strategically across the building. KYOCERA offers very good printers, producing excellent quality of printing and all in all working with KYOCERA has proved very positive for the school.” “Using PaperCut on the KYOCERA printers has been a very effective way
of controlling who prints and importantly what they print. We’ve been able to reduce our colour printing too – it’s a good combination, it works well and we recommend it. While we’ve reduced the amount of printing at the school over the last two years we have much better access to printing and what we do print is of a much greater quality.” “I joined Chiswick School two and half years ago and one of the first things I did was to review our IT strategy and identify key needs for both staff
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and students. All our Year 7s now receive an iPad Mini, which becomes their personalised device to use throughout the school. We’ve found that this means our students are much more engaged and more inclined to do their homework. Going up the school Years 10 & 11, who are focused on their GCSEs, are given a Google Chromebook to use, as are the Sixth Form. Overall we’ve taken a pincer movement approach between the early years and the top of the school because for us it’s all about accessibility.” “We’re a technology-focused school and have found that technology
helps us deliver great results from a teaching/learning perspective. Most schools only use devices to research or just use the basics, we’re ensuring our students are technically competent and having the ability to control what you print is part of that whole approach. We’re about to set up mobile printing for our staff – we have 92 teaching staff who all have iPad Minis in addition to over fifty support staff.” Chiswick School has expanded its IT team from two to five. Sykes adds:
“Due to our success we know what we’re doing and we have a clear strategy so that we plan financially to make things happen. Unlike other schools we knew we needed a sound infrastructure in place before we started to buy the snazzy end-user stuff.” Sykes concludes: “Our Academy focus and broad experience for young
people aims to get them to achieve to the best of their abilities. We want an environment to maximise the potential of all of our students and having a flexible print infrastructure is key to that.”
uwww.kyoceraineducation.co.uk September 2015
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