Matt Buxton

After leaving full-time education I worked in the insurance industry before returning to education to study History at the Manchester Metropolitan University as a ‘mature’ student. I then attended Trinity & All Saints College in Leeds where I gained a PGCE Secondary: History with Citizenship in July 2002.

I joined Djanogly City Technology College as a Teacher of Humanities in August 2002, becoming Assistant Head of ICT Development a year later.

In September 2003 the CTC became a City Academy, one of the initial wave of twelve institutions to do so, continuing with its ICT specialism. In the summer of 2008 the ICT Development team was ‘rebranded’ into Learning Technologies Development to place the emphasis more on teaching and learning through the use of leading-edge technologies. My role is now Director of Learning Technologies which incorporates a more strategic overview of the vision of learning at the Academy encompassing the development and implementation of ICT strategy across the entire curriculum, and beyond.

The Academy has two main sites; a Foster's-designed 11-14 Centre which opened in June 2005 and a 14-19 Centre. ICT provision at the Academy is built around the Teaching & Learning vision which envelopes different scenarios dependent upon age, stage and curriculum.

The curriculum at Key Stage 3 has been redesigned and is now a ‘Rich Task’ curriculum, based upon the Queensland model. My key responsibilities are to oversee the embedding of innovative usage into the Rich Task outcomes, building this into the strategic curriculum planning and managing the whole-staff ICT-based CPD programme.