Category Archive: For Parents

May 17

THINK! Keeping young people safe online

Digital Citizenship. Being safe whilst online. Being mindful of the dangers that are out there. These things are important to our students and so the digital leaders have created this video asking young people to THINK before they do anything online.      

Apr 13

Clevedon School Handbook << our very first app!

This week sees the very first Clevedon School app, the ‘Clevedon School Handbook’ go live on the Apple App Store! An amazing achievement in itself but even more so that it was created by one of the Digital Leader students in the school. The App is completely free and can be downloaded from the App …

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Mar 22

Parent iPad support session opportunity

Designed to help parents to understand their family’s iPad a little better, this session will be made up of two parts: Firstly, a presentation by our Apple experts answering some of the more common questions from parents, including how to set up Parental Controls. This will be followed by a more informal opportunity for you …

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Mar 15

iClevedon newsletter 15 March 2013

The iClevedon newsletter aims to give parents and students a feel for what is happening with iPads in school at the moment, some of the activities being completed and a good free app idea. The iClevedon newsletter is created by Digital Leaders at the school – should you wish to have something covered in the …

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Mar 07

Get on the case! Changing your iPad Case and Staying Insured

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Changing your iPad Case and Staying Insured iPads purchased under the school scheme are all delivered with a black Moko Maroo case to keep the iPad in. It is perfectly acceptable to replace this case, but the new case must meet the following requirements in order that the device remains covered by the insurance policy: …

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Mar 06

‘App Wednesday’ Week 6 – Numbers

Today sees the last of the core iPad apps being gifted to students. The app being gifted today is Numbers. Numbers is the Apple iPad equivalent of Microsoft’s Excel. A spreadsheet program it allows you to manipulate date, perform calculations  analyse data with charts and more. To find out how to use it, check the two …

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Mar 04

Esafety & in-app purchases

Thanks to the many parents who have attended the various ‘Meet Your iPad’ sessions. If you haven’t been able to come and would still like to attend, please let us know and we can organise more. One of the areas covered on the evenings was on the topic of in-app purchases, what they are and …

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Mar 01

iClevedon newsletter 1 March 2013

The iClevedon newsletter aims to give parents and students a feel for what is happening with iPads in school at the moment, some of the activities being completed and a good free app idea. The iClevedon newsletter is created by Digital Leaders at the school – should you wish to have something covered in the …

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Feb 06

‘App Wednesday’ Week 5

Today you will have been gifted the very powerful app ‘Comic Life’ which does much much more than just allow you to make your own comics. The Comic Life app is simply brilliant. On the one hand it can create superb comics, but with a bit of care and attention it can also create some brilliant …

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Jan 30

‘App Wednesday’ Week 4

Today you will have been gifted the very powerful ‘Pages’ app. This is an app made by Apple which is essentially, their iPad equivalent of Microsoft Word. It has compatibility with Word too in that anything that you might have made in Word can be opened and edited in Pages and vice versa. The screencasts below will …

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