Digital Innovation

As the 21^st Century is characterised by rapidly changing technology it is imperative that students acquire the following ICT skills.

• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Communication and collaboration
• Digital, information, media, visual and cultural literacy

The ICT programme is designed to equip students with the skills they need to become competent users of ICT. At each year level, the ICT skills will be tailored to complement and support the curriculum being delivered by the classroom teacher.

The value of using ICT in the curriculum is that it:

• Motivates and engages students
• Increases interaction and discussion about learning objectives
• Makes repetitive tasks more interesting
• Provides access to new software, vast resources and information
• Enables creative publishing
• Develops digital citizenship and cyber safety
• Makes connections with home and community
• Enables tailoring of individual programmes
• Extends learning

Our BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programme starts from Year 5 where students have the option to bring their own digital device. Our approach is to use a blended approach of non-device and device methods depending on the learning design at the time.

Senior School students are required to bring a laptop to school for the duration of their learning in Senior School.

Please read our BYOD Brochure for all the digital details and specifications:

BYOD Brochure

All students using digital devices at school need to read and sign our responsible use agreement form:

Cyber Safety Agreement

Responsible computer usage is as much learned at home as it is at school.

KingsWay School supports the use of safe computing practices at school and at home. Helpful strategies include supervision of students using computers, educating them on how to use the internet safely and equipping them with what to do in difficult situations.

The following safe computing strategies are recommended:

• Be actively involved in your student’s internet use
• Place the computer in a public area in the home (not in bedrooms)
• Use family-friendly search engines and internet filters
• Monitor chat and peer to peer messaging