The Strategic Advice and Support Service provides advice on the effective use of ICT in your academy.  The service covers up to half a day of an allocated adviser time at your academy and discounted rates on central courses and bespoke training.

The Broadband Service provides internet connectivity to the National Education Network and the wide range of educational resources available through our contract with Virgin Media.  This service includes the cost of internet filtering and network management.

For Nursery, Primary and Special Schools

The Broadband Plus Service offers internet and desktop monitoring through Policy Central Enterprise in all schools by tracking pupil and staff ICT activity.  This has been enhanced to provide further e-Safety support for incidents.  

The service includes WeLearn365 – a unique Warwickshire bundle that brings together Microsoft Office365 email and applications with a collaboration/learning platform.  We are developing the training and development of the popular Purple Mash suite of education programmes further this year.  

The service also includes automated set up, maintenance and removal of e-mail accounts as the changes are made in your SIMS package which saves considerable admin time.  

The collective buying power of WES ICT means this package provides excellent value for money for schools.

For Secondary Schools

The Broadband Plus Service for Secondary Schools is a customisable set of products including Policy Central Enterprise, WeLearn365, Office 365 email and TASC Insight.  

We will work with you to tailor it to meet the requirements and set up of your individual school.  

The collective buying power of WES ICT means this package provides excellent value for money for schools.

Following a successful pilot, we are introducing Impero Classroom management to our offer for 2015.  

This innovative software provides a tool for teachers to control the classroom and manage lessons using IT.

Among many other features teachers can share what’s on their own screen with all pupils and keep track of what pupils are doing far more easily.

We have included the J2E Learning Platform as an additional option for schools to purchase.  

J2E is an on-line creativity tool designed for education and the huge range of tools enables children from Reception to Year 6 to write, paint, animate, program, blog, graph, handle data, vote, share and much more.

It will help children learn every element of the computing curriculum but will also support learning across the curriculum.

This provides technical support for the B-YOND wireless network in schools; interfacing to other networks and replacement for access points and controllers.

This provides schools with the correct licencing requirements to use the Windows Operating System and CALS on all devices in school.  

This provides technical support for your curriculum and admin servers that are under warranty. This includes remote back up each day; a total rebuild in the event of failure and automating remote software deployment and updates.

This provides technical support for your admin server that is under warranty. This includes remote back up each day; a total rebuild in the event of failure and automating remote software deployment and updates.

This provides unlimited technical support for your approved admin PCs and laptops. Support can be accessed by phone, through face to face meetings and by remote access to your systems providing faster and easier resolution of problems.

This provides Unlimited technical support for your approved curriculum PCs and laptops. Support can be accessed by phone, through face to face meetings and by remote access to your systems providing faster and easier resolution of problems.

We will carry out a full data restore to a suitable device of your choice. If you have any devices including Windows and MAC servers, you can purchase the necessary licences on an annual basis.  

This provides technical support for your virtualised server that is under warranty. This includes remote back up each day; a total rebuild in the event of failure and automating remote software deployment and updates.

This provides a technician who will visit your academy for three hours once a term to carry out tasks defined and prioritised by you.

This provides a technician who will visit your academy for three hours once every half term (six visits in total) to carry out tasks defined and prioritised by you.

This provides a technician who will visit your academy for three hours once a fortnight during term time (18 visits in total throughout the year) to carry out tasks defined and prioritised by you.

This provides a technician who will visit your academy for three hours weekly during term time (36 visits in total throughout the year) to carry out tasks defined and prioritised by you.

This provides a technician who will visit your academy for three hours per visit to carry out tasks defined and prioritised by you.  You can choose the number of visits you require throughout the year.

This provides a technician who will visit your academy for six hours per visit to carry out tasks defined and prioritised by you.  You can choose the number of visits you require throughout the year.

The Management Information, Development, Advice and Support (MIDAS) Service provides support and training to maximise your use of SIMS and data to support teaching, learning and safeguarding. 

New for 2015, to reduce the amount of duplicate data entry and ad- hoc requests, we are enhancing our support for data exchange between your SIMS database and other LA systems e.g. Priority Families, e-Absence and ACE.

The Premium MIDAS Service enhances the support you receive with a scheduled three hour visit each term to cover selected MIS support tasks defined and prioritised by you.