ABSTRACT
The seven sections of the prototype policy presented here are offered to give you a skeleton on which to hang your own ideas and suggestions. I have used this over a number of years to stimulate discussion amongst staff in primary schools who are working towards a policy for ICT. Most areas will need discussion and agreement with your own staff to be meaningful but it is sometimes useful to have a starting document, if only to give you all something to knock down. A general heading in each section is followed by suggestions in italics for schools to modify as they think best fits their own situation. Many of these statements come from primary schools’ IT policy documents given to the author over a number of years, and others from suggestions within Heather Govier’s policy published in MAPE in 1994 and others derived from Essex Council’s Information Technology Handbook, and IT policies from Trafford LEA. The document cannot be used as a whole because many of the example statements are contradictory.
