Independent Schools
Optimising and future proofing your IT infrastructure to improve efficiency and deliver high quality learning and teaching environments.
Wavenet Education
IT Support
Streamline your Schools’ IT environment and optimise your budget with future proof best value IT strategies and support. The benefits technology can have to deliver the best teaching and learning environment for both pupils and teachers are huge, but it doesn’t come without its problems. Cost understanding, maintenance and time can all be reasons why comprehensive IT plans and projects at schools never get off the ground.
We can take responsibility of your IT infrastructure and school wide support with defined SLAs, for every eventuality.
Our fully managed service includes:
- A free network health check of your current IT infrastructure which will form the basis of your school’s IT 5 Year Support plan.
- A single point of contact for your entire environment including infrastructure, applications, backup, and security.
- Central help desk support and optional DBS checked on-site technicians.
- Remote monitoring of your entire environment.
- Centrally managed ICT audits, software patching and disaster recovery.
- Additional support and resource for your on site IT team
Cloud Solutions with Microsoft 365
Independent schools are consistently striving to provide the best learning environment for their students and understand that technology can help shape how this can be delivered. Microsoft 365 Education offers a suite of online tools that empowers teachers to create lessons that will engage students, promote teamwork, and better collaboration across the classroom. Microsoft 365 Education is free, with reduced licensing costs for the tools’ desktop counterparts.
Wavenet can help you take advantage of the cloud to unleash new digital workplace and collaboration and communication services that will:
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Transform how schools engage with external stakeholders such as governors, trustees, and parents.
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Enable schools to tap into a vast array of digital teaching and student management resources.
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Make it easier for pupils to learn in the classroom and at home, with instant access to productivity tools, lessons, and learning materials.
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Create best practice hubs where teachers can share resources!
Cyber Security
The number of cyber-attacks on schools has been increasing year on year, especially as more schools are now using cloud platforms to aid administration and enhance teaching and learning. At Wavenet we offer a number of services to help keep your school cyber secure and compliant with the latest cyber-security standards.
Cyber Essentials Certification A government-backed scheme which assesses your school’s current cyber security position. It aims to ensure the right processes and technical controls are in place to assist in blocking and partially mitigating against 99% of possible cyber-attacks.
Managed Cyber Security Services We enable schools to address all of today’s cyber security challenges in a centralised and highly efficient way and stay compliant with GDPR.
Disaster Recovery Solutions Preparing for the unexpected. Along with cyber security measures, all data assets will need to be backed up in a bullet-proof manner, so that should the unthinkable happen, back office and learning resources can be recovered the moment they’re needed.
Cyber Security Training Our Cyber Security Training includes, training all your staff with access to your IT network on the basics of cyber security to ensure that your school can mitigate against a cyber-attack and meet the new DfE Cyber-Security standard.
Google Workspace for Education
Workspace for Education is a set of Google tools and services that are tailored specifically to schools and academies. Workspace for Education helps teachers and students collaborate, streamline instruction, and keep learning safe.
Applications include a suite of school transforming core services, and much more, that includes:
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Gmail & Calendar – school-wide email and calendar systems
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Drive – store your files securely in the cloud and access them at any time from any device
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Classroom – set homework online and communicate with students
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Forms – create quizzes and surveys to collect and analyse responses
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Sheets, Docs and Slides – create spreadsheets, documents and presentations
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Meet – connect virtually through secure video calls
Wavenet Education are able to help with any stage of your Google journey. This includes migration from an existing platform and providing ongoing advice & support.
Customer stories
With over 30 years’ experience providing ‘designed-for-schools’ technology
“Dulwich College have a close relationship with Wavenet who provide us with technical support and assistance both onsite and remotely. Their response times and depth of knowledge are second to none. Highly recommended.”
Head of Computer Services, Dulwich College
