All students are expected to have their iPad at school and charged, with enough space to save classwork and install apps and books for educational and classroom purposes.

It is the responsibility of each individual student to ensure that their device is ready for learning during class time, across the span of the entire day. In order to support this, we ask parents' and carers' assistance in reminding students to:

Charge their device each night, ready for the following day.

• Ideally, this will occur in a central location where the device will not disrupt sleep.

Ensure their device has enough storage.

• To do this, students may need to monitor the number of non-educational applications that are downloaded.
• This can be checked in Settings / General / iPad Storage

Check on arrival each day that their device is connecting to the school’s network.

• Students can do this easily by checking that their iPad will log in to SeeSaw, or SharePoint. If it can’t, then the device is not connected to the school’s network.
• Students who cannot connect to the network, or who need assistance with the iPad are asked to seek assistance at Student Services outside of class time.
• On most occasions, a device will not connect to the school’s network if the password being entered is incorrect, or forgotten. Password resets are quick and easy via Student Services.

Recent statistics from the Gonski Institute for Education and The University of New South Wales indicates that 78% of teachers believe a students’ ability to focus on educational tasks has decreased due to the distractions of social media and gaming. A number of strategies are put in place each and every day by teachers to optimise student engagement with learning, while using iPads. This includes the use of Apple Classroom as well as visual cues and prompts for guiding and managing learning. Further information about Apple Classroom is available at:

Parents and Carers can assist with improving their child's engagement in learning with devices by setting up Parental Controls to limit, and in some instances restrict, the use of particular applications during school time. The following video outlines how to set up Parental Controls. 

We ask your assistance with restricting the use of the following applications to outside of school hours. You can do this by restricting the hours of use in Parental Controls. 

• Apple Messages
• Apple FaceTime
• Social media including: TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Omegle
• Messaging apps including: Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp
• Video streaming including: Youtube, Netflix and Stan
• Games including any that you believe may distract your child from learning

This will ensure that your student is best placed to engage in learning while in attendance on campus, and to limit their use of social media platforms while outside of parent and carer supervision.

We are aware that a number of families use Apple Messages and FaceTime to communicate with their child throughout the school day. We would like to remind families that a student phone is available for use by all student’s at Student Services. Should you require to contact your child urgently throughout the school day, we ask that you contact Administration by phone on (07) 5555 3333. Contacting students by Apple Messages and FaceTime throughout the school day provides a distration to student engagement in learning, and places student's in breach of their responsibiilties outlined in our Responsible Use of IT Agreement.