Chromebooks

Our Digital Strategy to Enhance Learning

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

• Enhance your learning
• Enhance the 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 will 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 will 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.