From eligibility to handover, around the school day
Connect the Classroom upgrades happen in a live school. Our process is built to design accurately, install with minimal disruption, and leave the school with a network its team understands.
Six stages, no surprises
Eligibility and scoping
We confirm the scope against the Department for Education (DfE) funding and the school's needs, and agree what is in and out.
Wireless survey and design
A survey informs a wireless heat-map design, so access-point numbers and positions are based on the building, not a template.
Design pack and programme
A costed bill of materials, network design, and an installation programme scheduled around the school calendar.
Installation
Cabinets, switching, and access points installed, with the disruptive work scheduled out of hours and in holidays where needed.
Configuration and commissioning
Switching, Wi-Fi, central management, and Network Policy Server (NPS) authentication configured and tested end to end before anything goes into daily use.
Handover and support
A full as-built handover pack, and the option to keep the network monitored and supported as part of a wider service.
Right first time, so your approval is not delayed
The DfE approves funding against a specific set of documents, and rejects submissions that arrive incomplete or with errors. We produce all of them as standard: the ICT cost matrix, completed line by line with the correct product codes and checked before it goes anywhere near the DfE; the wireless heat map that evidences the access-point count; the network topology diagram; and a floor plan showing fibre runs, switches, and access points, with the AP-to-switch mapping clear.
If the design or the cost changes after approval, the DfE requires a new cost matrix to be approved before work proceeds. We treat that as a hard gate in our delivery process, because proceeding without it puts the cost on the school.
What your school holds at the end
Warranty certificates, cable test results, the as-built documentation, and access to the management dashboards. These are the exact items the DfE asks to see when it selects schools for a quality assurance visit after the grant is claimed, so your school is ready by default.
Minimal disruption by design
We schedule downtime so it does not delay the installation or interrupt teaching, replace any dead-on-arrival hardware from our own stock, and coordinate access to cabinets and the firewall changes needed to bring the new network live. The aim is a clean switch-over, not a series of outages.
Speak with our experts
Tell us about your school, trust, or programme. We will route you to the right team and respond promptly.