Schools

The Fronter Platform is used by students and teachers at hundreds of schools around the world. With almost 100 tools available, the platform can be customised according to the needs and vision of the school. Adjustments can be made to suit the school’s pedagogical methods and learner age group.

Fronter for Primary Schools

Children start experimenting with computers at a very early age. Some even learn to type before they learn how to write by hand.

With the Fronter Platform, children from as young as 5 years old can now take part in a new generation of e-learning. The concept of 'learning together' can be slowly introduced within a multimedia environment, where pupils can work and express themselves as they discover a wide world filled with possibilities.

Fronter for Secondary Schools

The Fronter Platform is an essential base from which all school activity, be it academic work, after school activities, clubs and interest groups are coordinated.

The platform is the starting point and provides an efficient system for keeping all students, teachers and parents up to date and included in the life of the school. On the platform, students are able to take advantage of a personalised learning environment in which they can monitor their work progress, seek extra help and collaborate with their peers, regardless of their location.

Why choose Fronter for your School?

Children’s Interface Design: The Fronter Platform is on the cutting edge of educational IT development, providing a special children's interface design for its youngest learners. The text editor is also available in a 'Child Mode.' Using this setting, the number of editing tools and options is limited to only the essentials needed by a young learner.
Parental Log-in: Real time access to key information on a child's progress, attendance, school activities and participation, will ensure that parents and guardians can play a more active and informed role in their child’s education.
Collaboration: The Fronter Platform is a starting point for introducing children to their wider global community. In a safe and controlled environmnet, children can take their first step towards interaction with their peers around the world. The Fronter system can also be integrated with other educational software at your school – allowing complete collaboration educational resources and users.

International Case Studies - Schools

Primary Schools

	Moriah Jewish Day School - Harrow - The Hidden Curriculum The use of the Fronter MLE at Moriah Jewish Day School, Harrow not only supports the ‘Academic Curriculum’ in the school but also the ‘Hidden Curriculum’, allowing pupils & staff to communicate through the MLE tools, especially ‘Forums’, enabling them to express thoughts & ideas. Read more
	Olney Infant School - Fronter Champion's Lunchtime Club UK -One lunchtime per week, 30 Year 2 pupils at Olney Infant School in Milton Keynes have gathered to harness their IT skills by personalising home pages, adding text, graphics, links to websites etc, within their Fronter VLE. For more information on how and what they did, read more here.
	Fronter - the common platform from nursery to secondary school in the municipality of Askim, Norway Prestenga Nursery has 135 children from age 0 - 6 years, 14 preschool teachers and a total of 38 employees. The children can now follow one single platform from the nursery all the way up to high school, and be familiar with Fronter before they start school. The children at Prestenga will get access to Fronter autumn 2010. The plan is to create a separate children's room with links to online games, activities and other fun stuff for children to engage in. Read more
	Fronter - the common platform from nursery to secondary school in the municipality of Askim, Norway Korsgård School is the largest school in the Municipality of Askim with over 300 pupils and 45 teachers. The pupils had been looking forward to start using Fronter, and when the pupils themselves had a chance to try Fronter, there was a great fuss. Read more
	Flora and Finlay - The Travelling Bears South Otterington and Sessay Primary - Primary Implementation Award Winners 2010 UK - Both South Otterington and Sessay Primary were commended for their 'Travelling Bear' projects currently running at their schools. Flora and Finlay travel to partner schools, providing a link for children to start exploring neighbouring schools, cultures and lifestyles.... Read more about Sessay Primary and South Otterington
	Net Books - Taking the Lesson Home St John Baptist School, Lewisham UK - St John Baptist School in Lewisham, London, are leading the way in personalised learning. Now in its 3rd year, their net book project has really taken off. It’s given the students aged 8 – 11 responsibility of their own net books- and of their study. Read more
	Implementing a Learning Platform Sparrow Farm Juniors UK - At Sparrow Farm Junior School Head teacher, Linda Thomas and Deputy Head, Ardeep Virdi, are very clear why the Fronter MLE is a success. This case study outlines a few of the key initiatives put into place and the vision behind implementation of the learning platform... Read more
	Fronter Snowletter School Tips and Tricks from the Fronter Team UK - Thousands of schools across the UK have been forced to close due to the recent snowy weather and icy conditions. But fear not – in this age of 21st century, schools are finding that learning platforms are coming to the rescue – supporting the continuation of learning from the warm and safe comfort of the home... Read more
	Fronter Development at our School Newhaven Pupil Referral Unit UK - After management set staff and students a target for the use of Fronter within lessons at Newhaven PRU, a comprehensive program was put together with fantastic results! Read more...
	Building a School Community through Fronter Maadi British International School Egypt - Located in Cairo, Egypt, students, teachers and parents at the Maadi British International School have been exploring the possibilities of increasing ICT in their teaching and learning, with exciting results... Read more
	Geography Without Borders Ranvilles Infant School UK - Ranvilles uses the Fronter learning platform to connect the whole school community involving not only the teachers and children, but parents too. Many of the children’s parents are in the Royal Navy, so the learning platform enables progress tracking and answering questions while they are away onboard ship... Read more
	Parliament Hill Steps Ahead With Fronter Parliament Hill School UK - Now at the forefront of ICT in education, the school was one of only 103 from across the country to be selected by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to participate in the Leading Edge Partnership Programme, launched by the Schools Standards Minister, David Milliband on July 1st 2007... Read more
	Children Taking Back Ownership of Their Learning Coteford Junior School UK - The process of learning is a life long journey that should be exciting from its start, and the MLE is just one way of opening up new paths for the children to explore... Read more
	An Old School with new Education Methods Nedre Bekkelaget School Norway - First built in 1938, Nedre Bekkelaget Skole is an ‘old’ school with very ‘new’ education methods and forward looking ideas on ICT and its role in education... Read more
	Access to 21st Century Learning St Mary Magdalen’s RC Junior School UK - The MLE allowed the children to access resources from all over the globe and find pictures of their favourite celebrities. St Mary Magdalen’s has also collaborated with other schools through the London MLE, allowing the children to get to know pupils in other cities and countries... Read more
	Limpsfield Church of England Infant School UK - Limpsfield Infants' School in Surrey tell us how they used Fronter in an infant school to support geographical learning. Kids learned about living and working in the local area and a contrasting location, namely two schools that they have been communicating with in New Zealand. For more information about what their interesting project, and how they used Fronter to stay in touch, click here.

Secondary Schools

	Creating a Central Test Library Manor School UK - Since the launch of the VLE to the whole school in May 2009 the Test Library has been a core part of the schools strategy to embed the VLE across the school. The database in the Test Library now contains over 3400 questions from every curriculum area in the school... Read more
	A holistic virtual learning environment in a community school Conisborough College UK - Objective: To produce a holistic virtual learning environment covering all areas of the curriculum, cross- and extra-curricular activity and reflecting student life. To find out how they went about puttingthis into place... Read more
	Students Show the Way Cranford Community College UK - The Cranford Common Room is a shared space for all members of the school community. A hub of activity, the room was handed over to a group of students to look after and manage, giving them the chance to decide what was relevant for their teachers and peers to discuss and learn about together... Read more
	New Tools – New Opportunities Blackfen School for Girls UK - How to personalise learning, improve communication, and make sure that you take advantage of a wide range of resources in your teaching material? – Important questions – and just a few of many that schools across Europe are asking themselves... Read more
	Using Fronter to Enhance Staff ICT Capability Teddington School UK - Computers, whiteboards, visualisers, learning platforms.... a typical ‘school classroom’ is rapidly changing shape, and along with this the tools that students and teachers are using to learn and teach together... Read more
	Success for the London MLE Camden School for Girls UK - The London MLE in practice at Camden School for Girls (CSG) has proven a successful project that will definitely be continued in the future. Thanks to the summer 2007 pilot program of the new London MLE, CSG has taken the next step in 21st century education... Read more
	Looking into the School in a Completely Different Way Kastellet School Norway - Using Fronter for almost 4 years, Kastellet has a strong and established ICT policy at their school, which follows the nationwide trend for increased use of ICT in education... Read more
	London MLE is Key in Federation's 'Gifted and Talented Week' Crossway's Academy UK - At the Gifted and Talented Week (G&T), pupils embarked upon a project that would put forward their ideas on what would make an ideal community in terms of a natural, built and social environment in the middle of the 21st century, relating the project to proposed developments in the Thames Gateway... Read more
	Lifelong Learning Through the Fronter Platform ROC Eindhoven The Netherlands - A ‘normal’ school day at ROC Eindhoven has taken on a whole new meaning in the last 5 years. New education methods are combined with new e-learning tools, as the Fronter Platform is used to carry out new strategies for Lifelong learning in 23 schools across the ‘Silicon Valley of Europe.’.. Read more
	A Flexible School Day? Gable Hall School UK - The Fronter learning platform can be seen here in practise, helping a teacher to further individualise students’ work, not a slogan, a genuine example at work in one of Britain’s schools... Read more
	A New Pedagogical Approach At Stovner Stovner Upper Secondary School Norway - 'With 80% of the student body with a minority language background, the school has, in an exceptional way demonstrated, how innovative ways of organising teaching can improve the quality of students` learning. The school has been outstanding in the field of creativity and innovation' ...Read more

Academies

Chelsea Academy: Our Virtual School Building

UK - Opening in September 2009, Chelsea Academy started with 162 Year 7 students. With the opportunity to embed the use of the Fronter Learning platform from day 1, teachers, students, parents and governors are already seeing the major impact it has on teaching and learning. Read more.

Regional Implementation of Fronter

Implementation of the Fronter Open Learning platform in Oslo Schools
City of Oslo

Norway - In 2003, the City of Oslo Education Agency (UDE) selected the Fronter Open Learning Platform as a common platform for all schools in Oslo. Fronter was selected to fulfil the agency’s strategy to make pedagogic use of ICT available to all students in their daily learning activity... Read more

The Fronter Platform and Competence Based Education
ROC Eindhoven

The Netherlands - Schools in ROC Eindhoven have been using the Fronter Platform to support their learning for the past 5 years. Over this period of time, the Fronter Platform has become an essential tool to support their educational methodology – Competence Based Education (CGO)... Read more

Connecting Classrooms between North Yorkshire and Morocco

UK - One of the possibilities of a Virtual Learning Environment is to remove boundaries. With learning resources online, students can access learning from anywhere in the world as long as they have an internet connection. But wouldn’t it be great if students could speak to each other not just through their own classroom- but through classrooms around the globe? In an exciting new programme, North Yorkshire will be doing just that, click here for more info.