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St John's
has a commitment to providing first class ICT
facilities for its students.
In June 1998 our
patron, HRH the Duchess of Gloucester, opened
the new Communications and Sixth Form
Study Centre. When they enter school, 4th form
boys embark upon a three year programme covering
word-processing, databases, spreadsheets,
graphic design and desktop publishing and they
are examined in all five of these elements. They
quickly develop proficiency with these
facilities and use o level subject in the sixth
form.
 ICT is used in all
departments in the school without exception. For
example, geographers are able to down load
information from weather satellites, artists use
graphic design facilities, musicians use keyboards
linked to computers for editing and arranging
their own compositions and scientists use software
for data recording whilst their experiments are in
progress. One of the ICT rooms is equipped for use
as a virtual language laboratory. The schools
outstanding facilities greatly enhance the quality
of learning throughout St John's.
The school network has been designed to run at the
highest specification.
Each machine has a high resolution
17" monitor with high quality multi-media facilities.
Individual e-mail addresses are assigned to every
student. Likewise, excellent teaching and learning
use is made of the Internet.  The computers are
available to the students throughout the day as
well as during evening prep time and the ICT staff
are readily available to assist and rectify any
problems that may occur. The school's ICT
provision is being constantly upgraded to keep it
at the forefront of modern technology.
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