Devices

If you are considering purchasing a device for your child, you may find the advice below useful.

Laptops

One important characteristic of laptops is the inclusion of an SSD (Solid State Drive). The performance of such devices is vastly greater than a laptop with a mechanical drive. You do sacrifice some capacity, but that is not a problem as all students are provided with Cloud Storage on Google Drive.

Laptop - Minimum Specifications

  • Processor: Intel i3 or AMD Ryzen 3

  • Memory: 8GB RAM

  • Storage: 120GB SSD (Solid State Drive)



A laptop with the specification above should be able to run any applications which are used within school. For increased performance, with less loading times, and better ability to multi-task, please consider the specifications below.



Laptop - Ideal Specification (if budget allows)

  • Processor: Intel i5 or Ryzen 5

  • Memory: 16GB RAM

  • Storage: 250GB SSD

Chromebooks

A Chromebook is another alternative. But they are limited. They are useful if the device is solely to use Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and for browsing the Internet.

Other Support

Dyslexia

We have access to a Bookshare scheme which students to download books in different fonts and for the computer to be able to read it to them.

If this would be of interest, please contact the SEN department directly.