Chromebooks

Part of the offer that we make at the Math is a fully digital curriculum. As part of this we issue each pupil with a Chromebook which they are expected to bring to school each day and will use both in lessons and at home. Your son will receive his Chromebook in his first week in September. Not every lesson will make use of the Chromebook but many will. At a basic level it will be used to share worksheets and information which pupils can then keep. They will also be used for electronic textbooks and also for carrying out particular tasks and for accessing a range of subject specific resources.

Further information about the chromebook scheme will follow.

Online Safety: we are mindful of the risks to our students associated with time spent online. We make regular posts in Google Classrooms to help raise awareness and encourage sensible online behaviour, and strongly encourage parents to exercise heightened curiosity about what their son or daughter is doing online. The school uses a filtering and monitoring system called Smoothwall. This product monitors students’ use of their chromebook both at school and at home, and will send an alert to the school if inappropriate words are used or searches conducted. When the Chromebook device is being used in school students are protected from accessing inappropriate material by the web blocking software used by Smoothwall.