How, what do we need..?

Hi, where do I begin maybe an apology might help I know I am asking allot but
any guidelines will be gratefully received.

I work in a small primary school, we have a network consisting of 2003
server and xp pro machines, 26 in our computer suite and 2 in each class plus
a few staff laptops giving me approx 50 in total.

Basically it’s not so good at the moment as we have no professional support!
This will be rectified in the near future but in the time being its down to
me cough! What I would like to do is sort out in my head what we need and
what will be the best set up for children aged 5 through to 11. at the moment
each class logs on to the server and has there own docs folder i.e. ‘class
SH’ the children save there work in said folder sounds ok so far but they can
also save it anywhere so we get very busy desktops with allsorts on them it
does seem that we got a bit of a bum setup from the installers there was very
little communication between us as they told us what they were going to do
and as we did not know the subject we went with the flow so to speak.

There must be a better way of organising it all, could the children log on
to a folder of there own that went with them through school? Teachers would
be able to access the work via admin or whatever…

Could we have our own school intranet through the server and if so could we
set up certain programmes to be available through it?

Could I sit at the server and service all the networked computers defrag,
clean up ?

Can we lock desktops so you can not save to them?

Please I know I’m asking allot but I just want it to be right. I am
learning, books college etc but It’s a big subject…

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