Discover Lilydale High School – Open Night

Thursday 27 April

6.30 pm

School Hall

Our OPEN NIGHT is an opportunity to showcase our school and what we have to offer prospective students.

There will be presentations from Wendy Powson, the Principal and Heads of Junior School and information presented about the school.

Tours of the school, presentations and displays of all the Key Learning Areas will be held;

• Arts
• English
• Humanities
• Languages
• Maths
• PASE
• Science
• Technology

We look forward to prospective families joining us for this valuable evening.

How to Help Improve Your Child’s Memory

We’re excited to announce that Elevate Education’s next free webinar will be taking place on Wednesday 29 March, focusing on Memory.

Elevate Education works with our students, delivering high impact workshops on study skills, motivation, wellbeing, and exam preparation. By tuning into their webinar series you will learn how you can help better support your children at home through reinforcing the skills they learn at school:

Wednesday 29 March

6:30 pm

Here’s what we’ll be covering on the night:

• How memory actually works (and how it has nothing to do with brain capacity)
• The most effective environments to assist in memorisation
• 3 techniques you can implement overnight to improve revision

REGISTER HERE FOR FREE https://get.elevatecoaching.info/au/schoolwebinar

The Lilydale High School Chromebook program is separated into two phases:

• Phase 1      Year 7 to 9 Chromebook Program
• Phase 2      Year 10 to 12 Chrome/Notebook Program

Purchasing a new device in Year 7 and then again in Year 10 ensures students have a reliable and up-to-date device to support their learning.

Ordering a Chromebook

• 2023 Year 7 Chromebook Purchase Portal
• Year 8-12 Chromebook Purchase Portal

Lay-by: A $100 lay-by deposit option is available to reserve a device at the payment method window.

Please Note: Chromebooks purchased outside of the school-approved supplier will not include a Chrome Management license. 

• Chromebooks will require a license to be purchased (currently $65) before connecting to the school’s network.
• Chromebooks purchased through the school approved portal include the cost of the Chrome Management license. 

The Chromebooks available on the portal are Lilydale High School’s recommended devices.

• Current Lilydale High School students using iPads can continue to do so.  When it comes time to replace these devices, students are encouraged to purchase a Chromebook. 
• Up to date Windows 10 and Apple notebooks can currently be used in Years 10 to 12. 
• iPads and other tablets are no longer recommended devices at Lilydale High School.  When it comes time to replace these devices families are encouraged to purchase a Chromebook through the portal on the school’s website.

What is a Chromebook?

• Chromebooks are a cost-effective education focused laptop that runs Chrome OS (operating system) designed to utilise with G-Suite For Education. 
• G-Suite For Education is a collection of productivity tools designed to help students and teachers to collaborate and interact seamlessly and securely across devices.
• G-Suite includes Mail, Drive, Classroom, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites, Calendar.
• G-Suite For Education is already extensively used by Lilydale High School students and teachers.

Why Chromebooks?

Chromebooks are ideal for use in a school environment because they:

• enhance student communication and collaboration opportunities.
• are reliable, automatically kept up to date, with in built virus protection.
• are designed to be easy to use, have a fast boot time, and quick access to web apps.
• save work automatically to the cloud.
• have a proven long battery life.
• are very durable.

Expectations

Students are expected to:

• Bring their device to school with the battery fully charged every day.
• Ensure that their device is stored securely in their locker when not being used.
• In class, their device will be used at the discretion of the classroom teacher – students must take their device to every class (unless explicitly told not too), but the class teacher will determine when and how it is used in class.
• If a student leaves the device at home, the student is responsible for completing all work to the best of their abilities as if a device were present.
• Devices must ONLY be used for educational purposes. Devices are NOT to be used at recess or lunchtime unless being used in the Library (for VCE students) for educational purposes.
• Parents, caregivers and students must sign the Acceptable Use Agreement in relation to the use of digital tools and online usage.

Lilydale High School Digital Technology Acceptable Use Agreement