Chromebook Scheme

The Trust provides secondary students with personal Chromebooks to support high-quality digital learning in school and at home. While the Chromebook device itself is provided free of charge, parents and carers are asked to make a monthly contribution to cover the cost of extended warranty, accidental damage cover, safeguarding software, and repair logistics.

This contribution is considered mandatory for all students joining the revised Chromebook scheme from September 2025 (beginning with new Year 7 and Year 10 cohorts). The Trust relies on these contributions to fund the ongoing servicing and maintenance of devices and to ensure the scheme remains equitable across all academies.

The contribution will only be treated as voluntary where a parent or carer:

  • Notifies the academy in writing that they do not wish to retain ownership of the Chromebook at the end of the lease period; and

  • Signs a waiver indemnifying the Trust against any damage, loss or theft, and agreeing to pay the cost of repair or replacement – whichever is lower – should the device be damaged during use.

In these cases, the Chromebook will remain Trust-owned and must be returned in good working condition at the end of the agreed loan period or if the student leaves the Trust.

This arrangement ensures all students continue to benefit from full digital access, while maintaining clarity and accountability around device care and cost.

Our 1:1 Device Assembly outlines to pupils and parents our expectations regarding the use of these in lessons and how we use them in lessons to ensure that pupils have access to an even greater plethora of resources, global contexts and learning tools.

Chromebooks are part of our compulsory ‘equipment toolkit’ that:

  • Enhance your learning experiences
  • Enhance the teaching and adaptive strategies your teacher uses
  • Support your home and independent study
  • Provide you with resources to catch up on if you are absent from lessons.

Useful Resources

Your Chromebook does not:

  • replace your exercise books
  • replace your opportunities or dedicated time to develop your handwriting skills and freewriting
  • replace the teacher as the main point of instruction and support
  • replace written exams and milestones

Chromebooks enhance our pupils learning experiences:

  • Every class has a Google Classroom where classwork and home study tasks can be set. This centralises the learning for pupils making resource management simpler and providing a platform pupils can continue to refer back to
  • Your teacher may upload resources into your Google Classrooms from your lessons:
    • to allow for pre-learning or pre-reading
    • to allow you to move at a pace that is appropriate to you
    • to allow you to revisit after direct instruction from teacher
    • to enable you to revisit at home for homework
    • to enable you to revisit when revising or for retention tasks
  • You may use electronic textbooks in lessons to reduce paper usage
  • Teachers may upload worksheets, tasks, extension tasks, alternative instructions to Google Classroom to enhance learning
  • Teachers may provide opportunities for further inquiry based tasks, such as videos, YouTube clips etc and these will be placed in your Google Classroom
  • Pupils can move through lessons at a pace more appropriate to them and refer back to materials they used in previous lessons.

Replacing Devices

Students receive new updated chromebooks after three years at the start of year 10 in preparation for their KS4 courses. This is part of the current loan agreement scheme that is consistent across the Trust. 

If a student’s device is not functioning properly they can take their chromebook to our chromebook administrator at the Main Office and where possible a loan device will be provided while their own device is sent off for repairs. We cannot always guarantee that a loan device will be available but we will endeavour to support students when we have spare devices in stock.