Case Studies

With about 1,950 full time 16-19 year old students Aquinas College, based in Stockport, is one of the largest Catholic sixth form colleges in the country. The Challenge Lesson registration was needed for a large number of 6th form students to encourage them to take responsibility for their own timekeeping by being trusted to self register; for this the solution chosen needed to be reliable, fast and simple to use. Aquinas has it’s own in-house developed MIS so the chosen system had to be flexible enough to integrate with this and provide management information quickly and...
Anna Holt, Head Of MIS
 
Attendance Monitoring
Aquinas College
Woldingham School is part of the Sacred Heart’s network of independent girl’s schools situated close to Caterham in Surrey. There are a total of 531 students spread across years 7 to 11 and the sixth form. The Challenge The school needed a way to speed up morning and afternoon attendance registration and take away the need for a staff member to be present. Fingertip registration was preferred though there were some concerns about its reliability and also acceptance by parents. For user convenience and to avoid enrolling fingertips twice and keep costs down a single...
Paul Ireland, Director of ICT
 
Attendance Monitoring
Woldingham School
Mount Grace is a mixed comprehensive academy in Potters Bar, with over 1000 students on roll including nearly 200 in the sixth form. The Challenge The school and Hertfordshire Catering were looking for a system to bring efficiency, visibility and increased revenue to the catering operation at Mount Grace. Fingertip detection was the preferred choice to eliminate the on-going cost and administration of cards and tills would be sited at dispersed locations which might cause a challenge. It was hoped that a large portion of the money coming into the system would be via online...
Sarah Haws, Accounts Manager
 
Cashless Catering
Mount Grace School
St Dominic's Sixth Form College is a Roman Catholic Sixth Form college on Harrow-on-the-Hill. It is regularly rated among the top FE institutions in England. The college has approximately 1,000 students aged between 16 and 18 and around 100 members of staff. The Challenge St Dominic’s has a relatively large number of sixth form student’s and while access around the site has to respect the level of freedom expected by students of this age there are times and places on campus where secure access control is needed; it is important that changes to the level of access of...
Mike McConigley, IT Director
 
Access Control
St Dominic’s Sixth Form College
Pentrehafod is an 11–16 mixed comprehensive school close to Swansea, it has approximately 1,050 pupils, thirty one per cent of pupils are in receipt of free school meals. The Challenge The school was looking for all the usual benefits from a cashless catering system – speed of service, efficiency and improved reporting were important, as was the prospect of keeping cash out of the catering environment. With a high proportion of students on free school meals the successful system would need to deal with free school meals discreetly and present detailed analysis of uptake to...
Linda Statts, Deputy Headteacher
 
Cashless Catering
Pentrehafod School