At Nelson-Mandela-Schule, we have over 40 iPads available for use in lessons. The iPads offer new research and presentation possibilities, and tasks which would have previously been completed in a book, can now be done interactively. Features such as AirDrop allow for collaboration between pupils on projects and facilitate the sharing of work with teachers.

Teachers can book the iPads for their pupils to use in lessons and they complete a wide range of activities with them. Popular tasks are making videos in English and German lessons and using the Maths apps, among other things.

Furthermore, in the 2013-14 school year, the school and governors agreed on the formation of an iPad class from Year 7.

We class the iPad as a learning tool, just like books and stationery. For pupils in the iPad class, homework will be completed with it and working with peers will also take place with the help of the device. In the classrooms used by the iPads classes, there is a projector with an Apple TV. There is also a BluRay player, an amplifier and loudspeakers. In order to use different types of multimedia. There are also the necessary access points for the internet connection and the possibility to print.

Our aim is that the iPads will be used in all subjects. On the information evening for the iPad class, examples of work completed with the iPads in Maths, German, English, Biology, History, Physics and Art lessons are shown. Even a subject like PE offers opportunities to use the iPads.