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Plumcroft Primary School, located in the heart of London, is dedicated to providing an excellent educational experience for its students. With the opening of a second campus to accommodate a 40% increase in pupils, the school required a robust and scalable IT infrastructure to support its growing needs.

Results

The IT transformation at Plumcroft Primary School resulted in substantial cost savings and a significant upgrade in technology infrastructure. The school benefited from scalable, easy-to-manage, and resilient IT solutions, ensuring seamless operations across both campuses. The comprehensive approach provided by the boxxe Group allowed the school's in-house IT team to focus more on their core educational activities.

Services Delivered

The boxxe Group migrated 120 users to Office 365 and 23 servers to Microsoft Azure for a scalable, resilient and easy-to-manage solution to support the school's growing needs.

Technologies Deployed

Installed 70-inch Dell interactive LED screens in every classroom. Deployed 150 iPads and Dell desktops/laptops throughout the school. Managed all data cabling, HP copiers, printers, and upgraded the phone system.

Industry Sector

Plumcroft Primary School is leading the way in the education sector.

Business Driver

Replace an aging IT infrastructure and also equip a second campus, built to accommodate a 40% increase in pupils to nearly 800.

Children and parents in a park

Challenge

Plumcroft Primary School needed to replace its dated IT infrastructure and equip a new campus designed to handle a 40% increase in student population. The challenge was to implement a scalable, resilient, and easy-to-manage solution that could support the school's growing needs.

Plan

Our team developed a comprehensive plan to overhaul the IT infrastructure at Plumcroft Primary School. The plan included a discovery exercise, design, pilot testing, and migration of workloads to the new infrastructure. The solution was designed to be scalable and resilient, with failover capabilities between the sites.

Approach

We executed an IT management solution that began with assessing the existing infrastructure. The approach included:

  • Installing 70-inch Dell interactive LED screens and Ergotron iPad storage units in every classroom.

  • Deploying 150 iPads and Dell desktops/laptops pre-configured for seamless use.

  • Providing HP copiers, printers, and upgrading the phone system to include both conventional lines and VoIP.

  • Handling all data cabling for the new second site.

  • Migrating 120 users to Office 365 and 23 servers to Microsoft Azure.

Outcome

The IT transformation led to over £30,000 in savings for Plumcroft Primary School. The new infrastructure provided a modern, reliable, and cost-effective IT environment that enhanced the school's educational capabilities. boxxe's comprehensive solution ensured that the school's technology needs were met efficiently and effectively, allowing the in-house IT team to focus on delivering quality education.

The boxxe Group have all the technical people who can come up not just with product, but a complete infrastructure solution. They will listen to your needs. Within a fairly short period of time, you’ve got a full technical solution that’s then costed in its entirety.

Fundamentally, our core business as a school is to deliver learning for children – and technology, particularly the quality that we got from the boxxe Group, allows us to do that better than we’ve ever done before.

Richard Slade
Headteacher
Plumcroft Primary School

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