What's our Why?
Rationale:
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Digital collaboration with peers with teacher designed learning tasks
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Sharing learning and understanding in digital ways
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Engaging in online or digital versions of learning activities, researching
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Creating independently or with peers presentations and ways of showing and sharing learning
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To supplement the learning program of the classroom
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Becoming digitally fluent with typing and core device and online skills (naming documents, organising digital files and folders, sharing controls, inserting images, core word publication skills i.e. bolding, font, style, animations.
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Providing and receiving feedback using online commenting functions and editing skills and tools with the teacher
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Complete online delivered assessments
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Educational games /websites / online practise tasks to consolidate new learning
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And more…
BYOD Information
Explore our range of information tailored to support your BYOD needs. From device setup to device buying ideas, we've got you covered.
Device Setup
Setting up the device before bringing it into school
You and your family own this device. So we recommend the following set-up steps before they come into school.
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Create a Google Family Link account
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Create an email/Google account that will be the main device for the Chromebook (i.e your own account, or a child's personal account managed under family link.
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Use this account to sign into the Chromebook for the very first time. This will associate the device to this account as the owner / main user and will have overall control of the device.
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At school, your teacher / an IT support person in the office can add your child's school-provided Google account. We do the following:
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Add another user
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Select for ‘school’
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Add their school email address and password
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Enrol the device in our school-managed wifi network.
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Online safety
How are they managed and monitored at school?
All Year 4-6 learners are provided with a school-created, monitored and controlled Google account. These accounts have security, restriction and safety settings set by and monitored by the school and are hosted in our school-managed Google Admin network. From here, app access and other restrictions are set and applied to all accounts.
All BYOD devices are enrolled on our school's Wi-Fi network. This is managed and filtered by the Ministry of Education, and we apply additional security filter settings on top of this.
Teachers and the school will monitor and supervise, and safely filter the device usage when logged into the school-provided account through Linewize. Real-time screen use and search attempts are monitored, and inappropriate activity and search efforts are filtered and restricted where required.
Note: We do not allow the use of a personal account while at school. Learners are only allowed to sign into their school account.
Optional online safety software for families
We recommend at a baseline, if you create a personal Google account that it is set up and managed in Google Family Link.
The family safety software is called Qustodio. The Online Safety Hub will be linked on our school website for 2026, along with information about Qustodio.
