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Welcome to the CAS Bedford Mixed Community, the result of a joint initiative between Mark Rutherford School and Bedford School. Meetings will be scheduled online until further notice. The community has been created to support teachers and trainers in the local area and beyond. College, Secondary and Primary school colleagues are welcome to join our meetings. Jackie Samosa at Mark Rutherford School, and Albin Wallace at Bedford School are the joint CAS Community Leaders here, running a welcoming and supportive Community for all.

The CAS Bedford Community is run by Jackie Samosa from Mark Rutherford School. She aims to offer a range of computing CPD activities for teachers and an opportunity for networking and discussion at Community meetings. If you’re a teacher and you’d like to present on a relevant topic at the meeting, please get in touch with her!

The CAS Cambridge Mixed Community is hosted by - amongst other leaders - Rob Leeman, Content Development Manager at ARM. They look forward to welcoming new and existing members to an exciting programme of Community meetings.

The CAS Cambridge Primary Community is run by Peter Gaynord, Master Teacher and Primary school teacher at Hardwick & Cambourne Community Primary School.

A great community for people to develop in their Computer Science education, led by James Spencer (“If you need a resource, I probably have it!”)

Welcome to the CAS Colchester Primary Community. The community has been created to support teachers in the local area and any Primary school colleagues are welcome to join our meetings. Simon, Richard and Maddy are the joint CAS Community Leaders here, running a welcoming and supportive Community for all.

You can contact head@homefarm.essex.sch.uk for Richard or Maddy!

The CAS Colchester Secondary Community is run by Paul Child from the Stanway School, who seeks to build excellence in computing education in the North Essex area, with a particular emphasis on vertical integration from Primary through to Higher Education. Paul welcomes everyone to the Community.

CAS Dereham Mixed Community is available to support the teaching and learning of Computing in Primary, Secondary and post-16 schools.

The Community Leader is CAS Master Teacher and NCCE Training Facilitator, Adam Gibson.

Meetings take place once per term but there are additional events that take place throughout the year.

Join the Community, come to the next meeting and start enjoying the support and networking that we can help you with.

CAS Hatfield Mixed Community is run by Neil Rickus from the University of Hertfordshire. He looks forward to welcoming new members!

CAS Hatfield Secondary Community is run by Neil Rickus, CAS East Regional Coordinator, at the University of Hertfordshire. Neil looks forward to welcoming new and old members alike.

Janice Knox and James Searle lead the CAS Luton Community meetings. They aim to provide opportunities for discussions, for the sharing of good practice; for training and support.

Please contact them if you would like to make any suggestions for sessions and/or if you would like to run any of the sessions yourself.

The CAS Luton Central Mixed Community is run by CAS Master Teacher Saif Aftab of Denbigh High School, within the Chiltern Learning Trust.

He looks forward to welcoming CAS members to the Community and hopes that it will provide a platform for teachers in the Luton area to network and share best practice.

CAS Mildenhall Mixed Community is run by CAS Master Teacher Martin Sexton from Mildenhall College Academy. He looks forward to welcoming teachers from around the area.

We welcome all teachers and actively encourage schools to work together to develop computing.

The CAS Norwich West Secondary Community meets once or twice per term at the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich.

If you are in Norfolk, please come along to our meetings and sign up for email news (here). Jez Thompson from Open Academy Norwich is the Community Leader.

We do have a website to celebrate and share information, but we co-ordinate our discussions and meetings via this CAS Community website so please post questions and discussion topics here.

We started in March 2020 with the aim of supporting Primary teachers in Stevenage to deliver a world class Computing education, drawing on a wide range of expertise in the CAS community… then a pandemic moved everything online and our meetings have been attended by CAS members from the four corners of the country! With a heavy focus on Early Years (because that’s where my passion is) we meet termly to share ideas, resources, what’s new, questions and to learn from one another.

We’d love it if you could join us sometime…

CAS Suffolk Secondary Community is run by Daniel Wright from Suffolk One and Kelly Abbott from Kesgrave School. They are hoping to run a lively programme of meetings throughout this academic year. They would love to see all Suffolk-based CAS members come along to their meetings - all welcome!

The CAS West Suffolk Mixed Community is led by Nick Templeton, who looks forward to welcoming and supporting any level of teacher of Computing.

The CAS Wickford & Basildon Primary Community is being run by Louise Lawton Primary School Teacher, and Lead Practitioner at Hearts Academy Trust and CAS Master Teacher Phil Alcock from Bardfield Academy. They look forward to finding out what support members of the group are looking for, and welcome everyone from the local area and beyond!

Bob Higham and Caroline Moore lead the CAS Woodbridge Primary Community, showcasing what computing activities can be run at Key Stages 1 and 2 and supporting the development of a strong collaborative local network.

They welcome involvement from local IT professionals based who can help with these activities.