Chromebook Scheme
Every child in the Academy from year 7-11 is loaned a Chromebook to enhance their learning experiences and upskill them for working in a world of technology. 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.
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.