The ICT Excellence Awards celebrate the innovative use of technology in transforming teaching and learning, while improving educational outcomes in Northern Ireland.
With the technology foundations laid by Capita and C2K over the last decade, Northern Ireland continues to push boundaries for innovation in Education. Capita is proud to sponsor these awards once again, recognising and rewarding the innovation within schools in Northern Ireland.
Over the years we have seen some remarkable examples of how teachers and school leaders are enhancing education through technology and the impact that has on young people's lives in Northern Ireland.
Please watch the video to find out about the 2022-2023 Award winners and read the Judges’ Report for 2022-2023.
2023-2024 award themes
We are delighted to announce this year’s awards themes:
1. Partnerships, optimised by the application of digital technologies. Apply here.
2. The leadership of Teacher Professional Learning applying digital technology to optimise a selected goal. Apply here.
Who can enter
Primary, post-primary, and special school and EOTAS centres are invited to apply for an award to celebrate either or both of the above themes.
A school or centre may submit an entry for one or both of the two themes, with a maximum of one entry per category per school or centre. Entries from clusters groups or communities of schools are welcome.
There will also be highly commended and shortlisted prizes for a number of schools in each category.
Entry criteria
Click here to download and view the entry criteria for the 2023 to 2024 awards.
Please note that the judging criteria below draw from documents, which are linked for information:
Theme 1
- The Entitlement Framework
- Shared Education
- Fair Start Report Action Plan
- Pathways Into Partnership (Primary School Professional Learning Communities)
- Pathways Into Partnerships (featured modules)
- The Turing Scheme and NI schools webinar
Theme 2
How it works
Applications should provide clear evidence to address four criteria of how the school/centre is using digital technologies as a part of their teacher professional learning plan:
Stage 1:
Complete an award submission for theme 1 and / or theme 2, applications are live now until 5pm on the 23rd February 2024.
Remember this must be completed in one session as saving is not possible.
There is a limit of 2,000 words for the entire submission – any words over this will not be seen by the judges.
Stage 2:
Shortlisting which commences early March 2024.
Stage 3:
Judging visits with shortlisted schools will take place during April.
Stage 4:
All short-listed schools will be invited the awards evening at The Merchant Hotel Belfast, Tuesday 25th June 2024, where the winners will be announced.
