Bookings for BYOD Drop-in Sessions for 

Wednesday 1 February, Thursday 2 February & Friday 3 February will remain cancelled despite school opening on Thursday 2 February. 

Please rebook a new time using the booking form here if you were attending a drop-in session on one of these days.

In term 4 each year we hold a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) parent information evening.  All year 2 parents and caregivers who are moving to Year 3 the following year are invited to come to this evening.  Any other interested families including those new to Sunnyhills in year 3-6 are also welcome to attend. 

During this event, we go over the BYOD programme and what we use devices for.  We also explain our rationale behind BYOD and give recommendations for devices.  We will have a selection of school Chromebooks for you to view and possibly a selection from retailers if they are able to attend.

Future Focussed Learning

Our children are entering a world that is looking for abilities far different from the traditional.  We want them to be able to collect, synthesise and analyse information and then work collaboratively with others to apply that knowledge. They need to learn how to learn and to respond to the constantly changing technologies and social and global changes in the world.

Bring Your Own Device allows students to have one-to-one time on a device that is set up to their specifications for their learning. This has many benefits, including:

• enabling students to take increasing responsibility for their own learning

• empowering students to learn at a pace and place as well as a way which suits them

• teaches students how to discern what tool will best help with their learning

• encouraging and enabling teachers to more easily implement personalised learning

• prepares students for a future where they are likely to be working in an environment with increasing amounts of technology and IT/collaborative/cloud based tools.

How does Google Workspace for Education (previously, Google Suite, GAFE) work?

The Google Workspace for Education (GSuite) offers apps for email, calendar, blogs, documents, presentations and website creation as well as Google Drive, which is a way of organising all of the work done on these apps. The use of these apps is free and can be used in ‘the cloud’ - a collaborative environment where others can access and work on documents together in real-time. Google Workspace allows students to access their work from school, home, the local library - anywhere with an internet connection.  Students at Sunnyhills have restricted access to some applications provided by Google Workspace accounts for example only those in year 5 and 6 have use of email.  All students are unable to make creations on their accounts using applications that are restricted to those over the age of 13.  This includes YouTube and Blogger. 

What is Hapara Teacher Dashboard?

Hapara Teacher Dashboard is an interface which brings together the tools of Google Workspace in an overview style so that teachers can access, set tasks, mark and comment on work completed in Google Workspace. It gives teachers the ability to oversee an entire class of work, like they would a class set of exercise books. It also allows teachers and senior school staff the ability to oversee all the activity of any student account. This gives the ability to do a range of things, including, but not limited to: changing passwords if students forget them or suspending an account if the Student Responsibility Agreement is breached. You can read more about Teacher Dashboard here: https://hapara.com/products/g-suite/