Ken Walsh is the Headteacher of King Edward VII School and Technology College, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. King Edward VII is recognised as a leading school in the development of ICT for learning across the curriculum. It has been developing learning with laptops since 1998 and currently has over 600 laptop computers in daily use on a wireless network across a 46-acre site. The school also has about 350 networked desktops.

Ken is a member of the Specialist Schools Trust Vision 2020 Policy Group. He was appointed as a National College for School Leadership Associate in 2001 and has published work on ICT and School Leadership and on Leading and Managing the Future School.

Sylvia Paddock has had a long career across the whole personnel and training arena, in both the public and private sector. A former Senior Manager with the Ministry of Defence, Sylvia has a wealth of experience, not only in managing and delivering a personnel and training service to large numbers of employees, but also in developing and implementing strategy and policy.

Sylvia is now the Training and Development Manager at King Edward VII School. This is the first non-teaching appointment of this nature in the county, and possibly the country.

Her role allows her to operate at a strategic level of the organisation, as well as managing and delivering a large and varied training and development programme to staff at the school, its associated family of schools, and local community and business.

Sylvia is part of the LEA's Investors in People Team and has worked with many schools who are pursuing the standard. In addition, Sylvia is an ICT trainer and is currently involved in taking forward post-NOF ICT training opportunities.

John Wordsworth is the Assistant Head of ICT Development at King Edward VII School. He has many years' experience of teaching mathematics and ICT, and is currently on a year's secondment doing Internet development work. During the last few years, he has developed a number of database-driven Web solutions for problems in a large comprehensive school, and has been heavily involved in the creation of a 'Learning Extranet'.

Tom Moore is Director of Learning and Achievement at King Edward VII School.

Originally a science specialist but with a keen interest in computing, he recently retrained and gained an MSc IT qualification.

He specialises in making student performance data impact directly upon teaching and learning in the classroom. He is responsible for introducing electronic profiling to the school, as well as adding a state-of-the-art e-Learning environment to the school's KS3 centre.

Paul Hynes started his teaching career in science and started using ICT to aid his curriculum delivery at King Edward VII School. He made the transition across to the ICT faculty and spent time training and supporting staff in resource development before moving up to the role of Leader of ICT Development in 1999.

Since this time, Paul has become a Microsoft AAL teacher consultant, Toshiba Ambassador and consultant for the Specialist Schools Trust. He has been involved in the school's development of ICT and wireless laptops, which has been covered in The Times Educational Supplement, Government Computing, Computer Shopper and The Daily Mirror. The school has also been involved in pilots and case studies of ICT usage for Cisco, Toshiba and Microsoft.