We will outline to pupils and parents, our expectations regarding the use of these in lessons and how we will be using 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 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
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.