New Parents Handbook 2019

Chromebooks When your son arrives at Tiffin, he will use his own Chromebook in lessons and at home. We have been operating this policy since September 2018 and it has opened up many innovative learning opportunities and had a very positive impact on learning and teaching at Ti f f in. To achieve this, we ask parents/carers to purchase a Chrome- book for their son. A Chromebook is Google’s version of a port- able computer that is cloud based and is smaller, slimmer and considerably cheaper than a traditional laptop.

during May and will make contact with you when the facility to take that payment has been set up. We will also make provisions for parents who need to pay by instalments. We appreciate that this letter may raise many further questions so we have set up a dedicated Tiffin Chromebooks website https://sites.google.com/tiffin.kingston.sch.uk/c-books/home with more information. The site includes a full specification for the C213NA Flip and will be updated with more information as decisions are made. We are also planning to provide further information about this program (and other aspects of school life) for new parents during the evening of New Boy’s’ Day. Some Chromebook and Screen time recommendations We expect your son to be excited about his new Chromebook and we recommend that you establish some very clear rules from the start, the same sort of rules and expectations that you would provide for a mobile phone or for gaming allowances. Agree a specific amount of time each evening when he is allowed to use his Chromebook; essentially time to do his homework. Then put the Chromebook away/to charge for the rest of the evening. He will rarely have more than 2-3 pieces of homework per night and 60-90 minutes should provide ample time to complete it. If he chooses to spend this agreed time on other activities, rather than homework, do not extend his allocated time but let him face the consequences and sanctions at school for not doing homework. This way he will learn to manage his screen time allowances more effectively. We do not advise allowing him to keep his Chromebook, or phone, in his room at night. We do recommend ending all screen time at least an hour before bed time.

Chromebook features include:  Less than 8 seconds to boot up

Long battery life

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Simple technology

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 Easy student-teacher workflow

 Central management of a large number of Chromebooks

Excellent collaboration tools

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 Seamless working with Google Apps for Education and other cloud-based applications which our students and teachers use extensively Tiffin School has selected a Chromebook, the ASUS C213NA Flip, because it works so well in the educational setting, and we can offer it at an extremely competitive price. The cost of the Chromebook including a Chrome Management Licence worth £20, set up and distribution costs is £269. We will only charge pupils on free school meals £99.

The Chromebooks will be given to your son during their first two days at Tiffin but we need to ask you to pay via ParentPay

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