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

Primary School, Middle Years and Junior Secondary

Our BYOD 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.

Please read our BYOD Brochure for all the details you need to know:

Years 5-10 BYOD Brochure

CYBER SAFETY

RESPONSIBLE USE AGREEMENT – Primary School
All Year 5 and 6 students are required to read and sign the Year 5-6 Student Responsible Use Agreement.

RESPONSIBLE USE AGREEMENT – Middle School
All Middle School students are required to read and sign the Responsible Use Agreement.

RESPONSIBLE USE AGREEMENT – Junior Secondary (Year 10)
All Junior Secondary Students are required to read and sign our Cyber Safety Agreement

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

Please read our  Senior School Device Specifications for more information.

All students are required to sign our Cyber Security Agreement – Students.

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