The following message is from Peter Banbury:
"One of the KCN services to primary schools that is sometimes invisible is RM EasyMail Plus. Every primary and special school and PRU has been purchased 40 RM EasyMail email accounts in a single KCN order. I can confirm that this has been extended from April 2007 for another year. This includes email IDs such as headteacher@....... etc.
As primary schools use class emails, we believe that 40 email accounts is enough for most schools (if not please tell contact Peter Banbury at the usual kent.gov email address).
A few schools provide an email for every pupil, in which case they need to order directly from RM.
Unfortunately organising a variable number of email IDs has proved too complicated!
Schools should not, therefore, order or renew RM EasyMail orders for 40 EasyMail accounts or fewer.
We expect the email provision from the Kent learning Zone to be considerably more sophisticated than EasyMail, and a transition is anticipated and will be planned for an appropriate and convenient time."