Innovative Financing for Primary School Laptops

Getting Laptops in front of Key Stage 1 & 2 primary students can be a huge financial challenge for schools and local authorities. However, with the Fizzbook series of education focused laptops, Solutions House is able to offer a range of financing techniques that could change the face of technology usage across teaching and learning in Primary Schools.

• Parental Purchase
• Parental or PTA Leasing
• Leasing
• Leasing with delayed initial payment
• Ordinary Purchase
• Ideal for Primary education

Parental Purchase for Primary Schools

Solutions House can offer a scheme whereby parents can purchase a Fizzbook for their child through your school, and their purchase will count to a pool of credits which will subsidise any further Fizzbook or Wireless purchases you place with Solutions House. This system can allow you to concentrate capital spending on students that require more financial help, whilst getting more of your students access to a standardised and education focused laptop.

Solutions House will provide help, text images and materials to help with promoting the Fizzbook to parents and are more than happy to provide on-site demonstrations at PTA events or Parents Evenings.

Parental or PTA Leasing

For this scheme the school, Solutions House and a leasing company join forces to make the most of community support for the school.

Contact us to find out more, call 01928 515 600 or email contact@solutionshouse.ltd.uk

Rather than going into loads of detail about the full product range, here we would like to outline something about our approach to getting you a really SMART classroom.

What is the best way to delivery SMARTs integrated tools without compromising your ability to use other technology?

Choosing the SMART board to fit your physical environment and budget is the easy part, its how you work with it to deliver the curriculum that needs more thought. How much time do you invest in developing materials that make the most of the technology? Do you build an assessment strategy built around SMART response? Do you bother setting up lessons that involve visual touch response, or input by hand through a tablet? Does all of this take me down a single road technology wise?

The smartest SMART classroom we can advise at the moment is combining the SMART board with the Fizzbook Spin. This total classroom solution gives you not only SMART technology at the front of the classroom, but as the Fizzbook Spin comes with SMART Notebook SE, SMART Sync and SMART Response as standard you have a classroom with all of these features:

• All the lesson delivery features you would expect from a SMART board at the front of the classroom. However, with the latest generation board you have touch and pen input from two users at one time.
• All students with access to a fully featured mini laptop, designed for and to survive being used by children.
• A good reason to invest in making in-depth lesson and homework materials in the SMART notebook software, as the students can utilise them on their Fizzbook Spins during and after the lesson.
• The ability to build assessment right into the lesson material, receiving feedback at a whole class level and tracking individual progress.
• The ability to take the individual assessment and set personalised learning goal that students can undertake on their own Fizzbook Spins.
• Full control over all of the computers in the room, including the ability to lock or monitor screens. Making the technology all about the lesson, not the laptop.
• The ability to integrate technology across the curriculum in a way that leaves the teacher in control and makes it worth their while to invest their time and effort in adopting new technology.

To find out more about how SMART and Solutions House can benefit your organisation please ring 01928 515 600 or email contact@solutionshouse.ltd.uk