Digital Technology

Digital Technology is an intrinsic part of life at St Thomas School and Preschool.

We offer students from Year 3 to 6 the opportunity to lease a laptop. This enables students to take charge of their learning and it gives our staff the opportunity to teach Digital Technology in a clearly defined way.

While we believe Digital Technology is its own separate area - which requires its own study - we also believe in giving students the chance to use it in all subject areas:

• We have over 140 MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros being used (and leased) by students and as class laptops.
• 14 interactive Whiteboards and several Apple TVs are used to explicitly teach and model. There is an expectation that Digital Technology plays a prominent role in the classroom curriculum.
• Early years classes also have class laptops and our Reception students receive a solid grounding by using iPads.
• Each classroom, at every year level from Preschool to Year 6, has access to a bank of iPads that can be used to support learning across all subjects.

We encourage our students to use the computers to not merely gather information but to select, analyse, organise and use information to provide creative answers or solutions to set questions or research tasks.