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Cyber Safety Pastoral Care Program Cyber Safety continues to be a core part of the Pastoral Care program being delivered to all students in Years 7 & 8 this term. The Cyber Safety Pastoral Care Program is designed to educate and support our children in the positive use of technology and the value it can…

Cyber Safety Pastoral Care Program Cyber Safety will continue to covered in the Pastoral Care program being delivered to all students in Years 7 & 8 this term. Keeping our students safe while using electronic devices and teaching them to be good digital citizens has now become a critical part of the education of our…

Cyber Safety Pastoral Care Program The Pastoral Care program being delivered to all students in Years 7- and 8 this term directs its attention to the important topic of Cyber Safety. Keeping our students safe while using electronic devices and teaching them to be good digital citizens has now become a critical part of the…

Supporting our children in the safe use of technology The ABC television program 7:30 recently aired a segment titled -‘Do you know what your children are doing online?’. I found it a very interesting and powerful segment which covered many of the dangers of young people going online and a number of sound practices cyber…

eLearning Strategic Plan Review Update The eLearning Strategic plan review, which has been ongoing for most of 2017, seeks to find the best technology solutions and processes to best support our students in staff in teaching and learning. The 21st Century classroom clearly sees technology as an integral part of the modern school’s teaching and…

Backing up the iPad It is very important that the boy’s iPads are being regularly backed up. From time to time our IT Staff have to reset an iPad to its original factory settings in order to solve a problem or update an operating system. It is important that in order to do this the…

Do Not Install iOS 11 Apple have unofficially released a beta version of their new iOS operating system, iOS 11. However, this beta release is intended for use only by app developers who can download the beta iOS and test their apps on the new operating system. Apple make it clear that you install this…

Parent Access to App4 App4 has been the official College diary now for several years. It is an online diary that allows teachers to enter Homework, Assignments, Notes and Calendar dates that will automatically appear in the student’s diary. Students are also able to manually add any events. One of the great strengths of the…

Scam Watch This week’s episode of 4 Corners focussed on a number of important topics such as cyber scams and phishing. (Phishing usually comes in the form of emails which look like they are coming from a trustworthy source but are in fact coming from untrusted sites.) Unfortunately, while we all find the convenience of…

iPad Neoprene Sleeves distributed to Year 7 Students I received an update from our Vendor CompNow on the neoprene sleeves they have agreed to replace. The replacement sleeves have arrived in Australia but there has been an issue with the distribution of the sleeves from the Australian distributor to CompNow which CompNow are now chasing…