This policy relates to all Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) associated with Christ the King (CTK) North Rocks, the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta (CEDP) network, any collaborating social media sites and personal devices brought in from home.

ICT hardware include computers, laptops, iPads, chromebooks, printers, Apple TVs, TV Screens, document cameras, scanners, digital cameras, data projectors, media equipment, speakers, internet and email facilities (including the google suite), Interactive Whiteboards, any coding manipulatives, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).

The school provides learning technologies for our students and teachers specifically for educational purposes directly related to teaching and learning. The school accepts that all students have equal right to access learning technologies according to their age and stage of development. Teachers agree to take all possible care to supervise students using the hardware and software provided at the school.

Learning technologies open the door to a vast amount of information (and entertainment, including distractions). With the right to access this information comes the responsibility to do so according to the standards set by CTK and the CEDP.

All students log in to the internet via the CEDP gateway which filters various websites and monitors each student’s activities. For this reason it is extremely important that your child does not let anyone else use their login. Subscription databases including Reading Eggs and Mathletics/Mathseeds, and education apps have report functions which allow teachers to monitor student activity and use.

CTK promotes the development of four critical skills of internet use - Respect, Responsibility, Reasoning and Resilience. Visit the Office of the eSafety Commissioner (https://esafety.gov.au/) and ‘start the chat’  to help keep yourself informed and your children safer whilst using the internet.

The information contained in this form will be collated by the Learning Technologies Support Teacher at CTK and used solely within the school for the purposes of ensuring your children are kept safe and responsibly use technologies.