IT - Information Technology

At Grantlea Downs School, we use digital education to empower our students to become confident and responsible citizens in an increasingly connected world. By integrating digital tools into our balanced curriculum, we provide students with creative ways to research, problem-solve, and share their learning. Our focus is on teaching children to use technology with purpose and integrity, ensuring they have the essential skills to navigate the digital landscape safely and effectively.

Digital technologies are an important and integral part of our tamariki’s education. We understand that the use of these technologies comes with responsibilities from staff, parents, and students in order to keep everyone safe. 

An agreement outlining the responsibilities of all parties involved to ensure the safety of our community will be sent home at the beginning of each year to sign.

Digital Citizenship Student Responsibilities

As digital citizens, students will:

• Keep it kind. Think about others online and talk or share in respectful ways.
• Keep it to yourself. Keep passwords and information about yourself and other people private and offline as it can be easily shared, viewed, screenshot, or changed by others to mean different things. Nothing is private online.
• Keep it careful. Because things you do or say online can be seen by others, be careful to share the things you can feel proud of, or would be happy sharing with someone face to face.
• Keep it positive. Always respect others online and communicate in a positive, respectful way.
• Post with caution. Anything you post or do online can influence what people think of you. Put your best foot forward online.
• Don’t believe everything you see. Always think carefully about the information you see online – not everything is true. If you are unsure of something talk to a teacher.
• Avoid online bullying. Creating or forwarding content that is harmful or hurtful towards someone else is not okay at any time. Sending multiple messages to somebody who doesn’t want them is also considered online bullying and is never okay.
• Be security smart. Keep personal information secure by using strong passwords and not sharing them with other students. Always log out of a site or device
• Respect others’ rights. Always ask first if you need to use someone else’s device, online sites, and their image, ideas, creations or work that’s stored online.
• Recognise others’ work. When we use or take others’ work or ideas from the internet, we need to make sure we copy or use these in ways that are okay because there are rules about this. Your teacher will help you to use things you find online in the right ways.
• Seek help. Sometimes you or someone you know will feel unsafe or come across bad or hurtful content online. If this happens talk to a trusted adult about what can be done.