e-Attain 2007 Conference & Exhibition

Welcome to e-Attain 2007 Conference & Exhibition

Raising Attainment Through eLearning

Around 350 people attended the pivotal e-Attain 2007 conference and exhibition, which took place at the award-winning Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham on Tuesday 20th November 2007.

This unique event brought together over 20 schools from across Rotherham including primary, secondary, special and further education and over 150 young people presented in 26 Best Practice Workshop Zones throughout the day through drama, song and dance. To find out more, please download the profiles here.

Attendees were offered a programme-packed range of activities across the day including the Conference Zone where attendees were welcomed with an upbeat and motivating opener by Sonia Sharp, Director of Children and Young People’s Services, Rotherham MBC, followed by a series of high-profile speakers incorporating a dynamic range of topics and presentations from international speaker Professor David Jesson, who provided a fascinating insight into measuring and evaluating school performance, and John Davitt who delivered an interactive and engaging presentation on tools for schools of the future. Other speakers across the day included Andy Pickles, u-xplore; Richard Kennell, Independent Education Consultant; Phil Bannister, BECTA; and Margaret Wright, QCA.

Attendees had the opportunity to browse 22 local, regional and national interactive exhibition stands providing the opportunity to touch and feel products and services including u-xplore, KRCS, Shoo Fly Publishing, and Winterhill CLC. For further information on the range of exhibitors at the event please visit the sponsors and exhibitors profiles page and click here to download the exhibition plan.

An enthusiastic team of Cub Reporters (primary) and Student Journalist (secondary) took on the challenge of producing a conference newsletter across the day with the assistance of editors from a local newspaper. Please find the Student Journalist newsletter to download, Cub Reporters newsletter, coming soon!

An enjoyable day was had by all attendees and by demonstrating practical examples in both the conference, workshops and through the exhibition stands attendees were provided with the knowledge and understanding of how easy it is to integrate ICT into the classroom across the curriculum and the impact it has on the young people and in raising attainment.

To download the event guide and find out more about the event, please click here.

What our corporate sponsor SYeLP had to say:

“I just wanted to email to say how well I thought yesterday's e-Attain event went. The workshops were inspiring, the exhibitors were relevant and engaging and the conference was informative and interesting -and hosted excellently I might say!

It was a real pleasure to be involved and I'm sure there will be more e-Attains in the future.”
(Alison Firth, South Yorkshire Marketing and Promotions Manager)

We would like to thank our sponsors, exhibitors, delegates, workshop leaders and all the young people who made the event a great success and hope that you all keep in touch with your new associates through the Discussion Forum.

Delivering a Sustainable Event

e-Attain are committed to ensuring the delivery of a sustainable event and have incorporated the following actions to reduce the impact on the environment, where possible by:

  • Issuing delegates with eco-friendly, 100% pure cotton bags printed with environmentally friendly water based inks and eco-pens manufactured from recycled CD cases
  • Not including speaker presentations on hand-outs to reduce print and paper wastage
  • Using sustainable print options including the event guide on paper printed from sustainable forests and signage and other event materials on 100% recycled paper
  • Communicating via electronic means
  • Encouraging and providing information on sustainable transport options
  • Ensuring locally sourced, seasonal produce and Fair Trade tea and coffee are used
  • Ensuring all crockery and cutlery is reusable
  • Ensuring numbers for the event are as accurate as possible in order to minimise waste on both catering and delegate pack resources
  • Ensuring that any paper waste that occurs is recycled
  • Encouraging and promoting the reduce, reuse and recycle mantra